May 21, 2014: Museums in Taganrog held special events and offered free admission on May 18 to celebrate International Museum Day.

The celebration started with "Museum Quarter" exhibit in front of Chekhov Gymnasium Literary Museum. This traditional open-air show brought together collections of most if not all Taganrog museums: Military History Museum and their reenactment group, Aerospace Museum, Beriev Aircraft Company's museum, Tagmet's museum, Polytechnic museum of the Taganrog College of Technologies (Southern Federal University - SFEDU), Museum of history and archaeology of Taganrog Chekhov Teachers College, several municipal school museums, retro cars show from the city of Azov, and all branches of State Literary and Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve.

Excursions, concerts and festivals were held at the memorial museum "Chekhov Birth House", at "Alferaki Palace" Museum of Local Lore and History. "Taganrog Museum Night" was held for the fifth consecutive time in the Taganrog Museum of Art and Chekhov Gymnasium.

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