Alma Museum: Mutually Beneficial Partnerships Between Students and Museums

10:00 – 11:00 (May 22)
Moscow Museum
Lecture Hall

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Roundtable Discussion

Amid Russia’s higher education reforms, much attention focuses on practice-oriented learning and university-employer collaboration. While this rhetoric spans all sectors — what is the actual state of affairs in museums?
Many museums actively seek student partnerships, even participating in educational programmes. Meanwhile, they face systemic barriers such as constrained budgets and increased staff workloads. Effective collaboration could simultaneously address two critical needs: transferring veteran professionals’ expertise to emerging specialists while strengthening museums’ connections with younger generations.

• What specialists will museums need in the future?
• What challenges do museums face in working with students, and why?
• Practice, creativity, research: what are the demands of students?

Moderator:
Gulya Baltaeva, Journalist, TV Host, Educator

Speakers:
Tatyana Andreeva, Deputy Director for Development, Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Reserve
Roza Akhmadieva, Rector, Kazan State Institute of Culture and Arts
Elizaveta Makeeva, Head of the Educational Department, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Evgenia Novoselova, Deputy General Director, Russian National Museum of Music
Denis Utkin, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Resource Management, Yaroslavl State University; Academic Secretary, Rostov Kremlin State Museum-Reserve