On April 13, Museum of the World Ocean welcomes visitors at the 8th annual Day of Herring, the portal culture.ru reports. This year, the motto of the celebration is “Time of changes”. The organisers have prepared fun competitions, workshops, amusing games and a procession of Mme Herring, queen of the holiday, and her faithful knights, as well as a fish market.
A show has been prepared for young public; competitions for the title of the most fortunate fisherman are to be organized to please fans of fishing. Each museum department has prepared surprises and presents for its visitors, including a new exhibition “On the wave of fun”.
The visitors will have chance to participate in an auction, play interactive games and to go on a treasure hunt. The exhibition hall “Packhaus” will host the exhibition revealing secrets of RMS Titanic. The technical-research ship “Vityaz” will open the main shaft and show its machinery compartment to the visitors for the first time. The submarine is to host a renewed exhibition telling about submariners’ everyday life and work.
Besides that, the museum is to exhibit a meteorite fragment, which had landed in Chelyabinsk on February 15, 2013. Earlier, culture.ru reported that fragments of the same meteorite would be exhibited in the USA, at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service
