On 16 May all branches of the museum worked to a special timetable, and the Pushkin Card was accepted for tickets.
On 16 May 2026 the Irkutsk City History Museum and all its branches took part in the Night of Museums. The history department at 16 Frank-Kamenetskogo Street offered tours of the halls and an evening tour by torchlight in complete darkness, and after a concert guests were invited to a 19th-century ball with the historical ballroom dance studio “Belle Époque”.
At the House of Crafts and Folklore, 102 Dekabrskikh Sobytiy Street, visitors learned to model traditional clay toys and work on a potter’s wheel, and heard a lecture on the Irkutsk school of stone carving. At the Museum of Urban Life, 77 Dekabrskikh Sobytiy Street, there were photo shoots in historical women’s costumes in interiors of the 19th and early 20th centuries, talks on the embroidery of Irkutsk needlewomen and on decorative carving, and a master class, “A Carved Window Surround Souvenir”. Tickets could be paid for with the Pushkin Card.
Source (in Russian): Teleinform, 15 May 2026.
