Children's Postcard Museum presents the exhibition "Around the New Year Tree: A Series of Exhibitions"

The longstanding partner of the Presidential Library, Children's Postcard Museum, completes the outgoing year with the traditional New Year and Christmas exhibition “Around the New Year Tree: A Series of Exhibitions”. It is open at the Journalist’s House at  Nevsky Prospect, 70 and will run until February 28, 2020.

The tradition of congratulating each other on holidays is one of the oldest ones. And of course, the New Year and Christmas holidays have been and remain the most joyful and long-awaited. Postcards are small signs of attention, eternal companions and accomplices of these exciting days. The Children's Postcard Museum houses a huge collection of congratulations.

This retrospective exhibition features about four hundred postcards from six exhibitions of past years. The first is the exhibition “The story with the New Year Tree. New Year's symbols of Soviet postcards". The protagonist of the New Year is illustrated in the second exhibition - “Profession of Father Frost”, which is followed by the exhibition “New Year Holiday ABROAD”. And, of course, what is New Year holiday without a carnival night? The sixtieth anniversary of the cult film of Eldar Ryazanov, starring Lyudmila Gurchenko, was marked by a special exhibition, which showed postcards with all the actors of the film and congratulations published during the years of the thaw. Another section is postcards drawn by Vladimir Zarubin, which were previously presented at his personal exhibition, which was held within the walls of the Children's Postcard Museum. The retrospective of the exhibitions is completed by the brilliantly ingenious postcards of Arkady Kuzmin, the famous St. Petersburg artist, author of more than two hundred postcards. The exhibition of the Children's Postcard Museum was a gift from the museum to Arkady Kuzmin as a soldier who made a sign on the Reichstag in May 1945.

The collection of the Children's Postcard Museum, which was opened in 2002, began to be formed in 2001 and today comprises more than 600 thousand postcards in forty sections: geography, painting, sculpture, applied art, history, actors, botany and much more. The Presidential Library and the Children's Postcard Museum have been developing active cooperation since 2012. Many projects are being implemented within its framework, including the organization of joint exhibitions, tours of the Presidential Library for winners of competitions organized by the museum and much more.

One of the main areas of cooperation is the digitization of postcards from the museum’s collections and their entering to the Presidential Library’s collections. Today, about two tens of thousands of postcards of completely different subjects have been digitized. They are history, geography, space, art, nature, famous people and others.