Four Museums, which brings together Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Tretyakov Gallery, and GES-2 House of Culture, invites deaf children aged 9 to 12 on an investigative journey through the cultural space of the capital to explore the relationship between culture, nature, and the city.
Peak to Peak! participants will spend time with a team of deaf supervisors and pedagogues on the Four Museums platform. For two weeks they will study the spaces, content, and architecture of the four institutions and discuss the connections and continuity of global culture and the culture of the deaf. The project takes place at two locations—Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and GES-2 House of Culture—from where participants will also take trips to other museums. Traveling around the city, they will track down the relationship between the past and present in the cultural and natural landscape of modern-day Moscow.
“Peak to peak” is how the sign that means “combination” in Russian Sign language sounds when being articulated. The name of the summer camp emphasizes the combination of the four institutions’ efforts in the field of inclusive programs with the cross-cutting leitmotifs of the project: nature, the city, and culture.
The program comprises team games, quests around exhibitions, walks in parks, and masterclasses. The opening week of the project will take place at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, from where, having studied urban navigation and important natural eco systems in the city, participants will visit the New Tretyakov on Krymsky Val, where they will resume the conversation about nature in the context of art and culture. The group will spend the next week at GES-2 House of Culture, where they will observe how closely nature, culture, the city, and humans are interconnected. From there, participants will head to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, where they will break into teams and try to find familiar imagery of deaf culture in art works. The other point on their route will be the State Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane. During the tour, participants will once again trace the tight connection between the city’s past and present.
