Museum of Russian Art at former church offering admission discounts

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The Museum of Russian Art, located at an old church on 5500 Stevens Avenue in Minneapolis, is now offering discounts on admission. It is a nonprofit museum supported by its members and exhibits works of art that showcase Russian culture.   

Discounted Admission 

The ticket discounts were posted by the museum at Thrift Minnesota 

The museum is currently standing at the former Spanish Colonial church. The museum embodies breathless anticipation, with sunlight streaming through Romanesque windows and arches framing the collection of artworks. It is a perfect place to display Russian historical art.

Russian museums partnered with the US to protect  Russian arts and are the only continent devoted to a museum focusing on preserving Russian arts, according to an MSN report. 

The New Mayflower Church

The Mayflower Church was formerly housed in the Spanish Colonial-Revival building at 55th Street and Stevens Avenue in south Minneapolis. The Russian Museum of Art relocated in  2005, emphasizing 19th and 20th-century painting. 

Russian Orthodox icons, photography, printmaking, lacquer art, porcelain, Soviet stamps, textiles, and Matryoshka dolls are also displayed at the museum.

The current Mayflower Church sanctuary, institutional unit, dining hall, and kitchen were finished in time for the church's 50th-anniversary celebration on May 6, 1975.

The New Mayflower  Church is now at 106 E Diamond Lake Rd in Minneapolis. The church holds in-person Sunday services and online at 10 a.m. The church is also associated with the United Church of the Church. 

Museum and Religion

Religion is prominent in every Renaissance and medieval art museum display, and conservators continuously arrange art shows to emphasize this. Faith is also visible in conceptual art, albeit to a lesser extent, and my thanks go to the institutions that have recognized this and selected to mount shows that place religion front and center.

The Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn exhibits religious arts from various traditional religions across the country. It is a modern-day medieval cathedral, almost a century old, designed by Raymond Pitcairn. 

In March 2020, the museum filed for bankruptcy. Because of another donor, Mitchell Morgan, the museum finished its restructuring procedures in September.

Weitzman's new gift enables the museum to repurchase the building from Morgan and establish an endowment in the eight figures.

The La Salle University Art Museum held May 30 exhibitions, including 19 works on paper depicting the surface's daring and fun-loving discovery.

Scarborough relief items were obtained through charitable contributions and purchases. Undergraduate student interns contributed to making the event possible in the past years and were acknowledged. The exhibition wants to bring positivity to the visitors during the hard times brought by the pandemic.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York emphasizes the significance of the Holy City in the arts at a time when Jerusalem was a sanctuary to even more civilizations, religions, and languages than ever before.

It is the first art show to explore the multiple cultural practices and artistic threads that enhanced and invigorated the medieval city. It includes 200 works of art from 60 lenders from around the world.

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