Olympics “Museums. Parks. Estates" is conducted by the Department of Education jointly with the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow. The coordinator of the Olympiad is the Center for Pedagogical Excellence with the participation of the City Methodological Center of the Moscow Department of Education. Olympics “Museums. Parks. Estates" 2017–2018 gives schoolchildren of all ages a wonderful opportunity to show their abilities, broaden their horizons, visit many new, previously unknown places, and meet interesting people and events!

What is the Olympics “Museums. Parks. Estates"?

During the Olympics, schoolchildren and accompanying adults visit museums, parks and estates in Moscow. Each cultural site that has joined the Olympics prepares entertaining tasks for participants, the answers to which can only be found by carefully studying the exhibition. Thanks to the Olympics, schoolchildren can get acquainted with different areas of art, branches of science, and the history of the city and country!

Who can take part?

Participation in the Olympiad is possible in the following age categories:

1. Schoolchildren of grades 1-2.
2. Schoolchildren of 3-4 grades.
3. Schoolchildren of grades 5-7.
4. Schoolchildren of 8-9 grades.
5. Schoolchildren of 10-11 grades.

At the same time, both individual participants and school teams can participate in the Olympiad.

Dates of the Olympics

The Olympics runs from October to May of this year.

You can visit parks from October 1 to March 31, and museums from November 1 to March 31. This was done to ensure that participants had the opportunity to answer questions in the park during the warmer months.

Procedure

First of all, participants need to register, and then carefully study the instructions “I have registered! What should we do now?

Structure

The Olympics takes place in one stage, which includes several rounds. During the introductory and correspondence tours, participants complete tasks on the official website of the Olympics, and during the in-person tour they answer questions in museums, parks and estates.

For participants who performed well at the main stage of the Olympics, the Final Prize Game is held in the form of an intellectual game-walk through one of the districts of Moscow.

Stages

The Olympiad consists of one stage and the Final Prize Game. The results of the Olympics are summed up based on the results of the Main Stage.

Main stage (October – March)

The main stage includes three rounds:

• introductory tour “Warm-up”,
• correspondence tour “Museum greeting”,
• full-time tour “Museum Whirlpool”.

1. Introductory tour “Warm-up”
   Schoolchildren are required to complete general tasks on the Olympiad website. If 6 or more questions are answered correctly, the introductory round is considered passed. Now the team has been assigned a code, which will be the team's identification number.
   No points will be awarded for completing the introductory round.
2. Correspondence tour “Museum greeting”
   The participant selects a museum they want to go to and takes a correspondence tour for that museum. The correspondence tour contains 5 test questions, which must be answered online, on the page of the selected museum. The correspondence round is considered completed if the participant correctly answers 4 or 5 questions.
3. In-person tour “Museum Whirlpool”
   This is the Olympics tour, during which participants come to the museum and complete tasks, the answers to which can be found at the exhibition of the museum or estate.
   When visiting each museum, park and estate, you must take a photo of an Olympic participant and upload it to your personal account. The photograph must be taken in such a way that the name of the museum, estate or park where the photograph was taken is visible.
4. In-person tour of museums and estates
   After completing the correspondence round, the participant downloads an Invitation to the Museum, which can be downloaded:

• from “My Page”;
• from the page of the museum or estate where the correspondence tour was completed.

The invitation contains the name of the museum, information about the participant (team), as well as an answer form for the full-time tour. Questions are issued directly at museums and estates. The tasks of the in-person tour are designed in such a way that answers to them can only be found on the territory of the cultural site itself.

5. In-person tour of the parks
Questions about parks can be downloaded from the page of a specific park (link “Download invitation”). Answers are entered through a special form. If photographs are required with the answers, they can be attached there.
When determining the result of each participant, his points for museums, estates and parks are summed up.

6. Final bonus game “I’m walking around Moscow”
Teams are offered interesting tasks, each of which is associated with some object (monument, beautiful building, historically significant place, etc.).

What is prohibited at the Olympics?

Police officers will ensure the safety of participants and monitor what is happening, and judges at the distance and control points will monitor compliance with the rules. Therefore, there are rules that must be followed. What is not possible?

• violate traffic rules;
• walk without an adult accompanying you;
• change bonus game objects;
• use any personal or public transport, with the exception of scooters, bicycles, etc. (subject to compliance with traffic rules).

The significance of the Olympics “Museums. Parks. Estates" for different categories of participants

When will the Olympics be in 2017–2018?

On the official website of the Olympics “Museums. Parks. Estates" contains information that preparations are in full swing for the fifth anniversary season of the Olympics, which will be held in the 2017–2018 academic year. Information about when this Olympiad will be held in the new season of the 2017-2018 academic year will appear by mid-August 2017.

Watch a presentation of the participation of one of the teams in the final prize game “Museums. Parks. Estates" can be seen in this video:

The timing of inspection of works depends on the museums. As a rule, verification and processing of work forms is carried out within 2 weeks from the date of visit, however, the period for publication of results may be 3 or more weeks.

2 weeks are allowed for verification of title photos and confirmation photos.

• The results of visiting museums, parks and estates are published on the My results page.

2 weeks are allowed from the date the response is sent to check the answers and photo confirmations for the parks. Important: Park confirmation photos are not verified until park responses are uploaded.

The results of the correspondence tour of museums and estates appear immediately after completing the tour.

The participant can submit an appeal through the form in the Personal Account within 3 weeks from receiving the result in a museum, park or estate.

Accrual of points

Points are awarded for completing the correspondence museum and full-time museum tours:

1. Correspondence museum tour - up to 5 points for each block of tasks. Points for the correspondence round are given only if the tasks are successfully completed on the first attempt. The completion is considered successful if at least 4 questions are answered correctly. Points for an absentee tour are added to the total amount of points for a museum or estate only after the publication of the results of an in-person tour for this object.
2. In-person museum tour - up to 50 points for each museum, park or estate.

Bonus points (coefficients that are applied to the points of the full-time round) are given for:

1. Some Museum points may come with an increasing coefficient (the maximum coefficient is 2).
2. Visiting bonus Museums (periodically published on the website).
3. Visiting those Museums that received the smallest number of participants during the previous period of publication of the TOP-20 museums. The TOP 20 museums are determined and periodically published on the website (the date of publication and the date of the next publication are indicated).
4. Visiting the Museums that received the least number of participants during the current period (see TOP-20) (the list of Museums is unknown in advance, that is, the participant can, based on the list of least visited Museums for past periods, guess which Museums few participants will go to).

Nominations

Nominations are various ways of adding up points scored by participants in museums, parks and estates. A large number of nominations (more than 30 in total) gives all participants the opportunity to show themselves in the area that is most interesting to them.

Super winners are determined in the following categories:

1. Most active participant (participant who visited the largest number of objects).
   The number of museums, parks and estates visited by the participant is taken into account (objects can be of their own or older age categories).
2. The most active participant on the network (for actively completing correspondence museum tours).
   In this nomination, points for all correspondence tours for museums and estates are summed up of your age category. The results of correspondence rounds of older age categories are not taken into account.
3. Fresh air lover (for visiting the largest number of parks and estates).
   This category counts the number of parks and estates visited of your age category. Visits to parks and estates for older age groups are not taken into account.
4. Active competitor (for participation in the largest number of competitions).
5. Park Connoisseur (for the most points for tasks in the parks).
   In this category, points for all parks are summed up of your age category. The results of visiting parks designed only for older age groups are not taken into account.
6. Estates caretaker(for the most points for tasks in the estates).
   In this nomination, points for all estates are summed up of your age category. The results of visiting estates designed only for older age categories are not taken into account.
7. Categorical (for the best knowledge of museums (the highest number of points) of a certain category, for example, for literary, historical museums, etc.). If a category includes less than 3 museums, then the results for this category nomination are not summed up. In addition, there may be exception museums that are not taken into account in the results for the “Category” group nominations (information about this is posted in the Features of visiting museums).
   In this nomination, points for all museums are summed up of your age category. The results of visiting museums intended only for older age categories are not taken into account.
8. Route (for completing a certain route with the most points). .

New nominations will appear in the future.

Competitions

In addition to summing up results directly from participants’ visits to museums, competitions on various topics are held (art, literary, photo competitions, etc.).

The results of competitions are summed up at least once a month (for long-term competitions) and at the end of the competitions.

Registration is required for all Season 7 participants, even if they participated last year.

You can register for the Olympics from September 1, 2019 to March 15, 2020, but do not forget that to qualify for the competition you must visit at least 4 museums and 1 park or 4 museums and 1 estate.

How does registration work:

Once you have decided on the test type and category, you can begin registration. Please, attentively Please read the registration instructions below.

2. Create an account in the Unified Registration System ( if you already have a login, then you do not need to create a new one).
An account must be created for an individual participant (school student) or team captain (for team competition).
Team members do not create a separate registration for themselves.
To do this, click on “Registration”

3. Log in to the Unified Registration System using your login.
To do this you need to enter your login and password.
You may need to fill out a form if this is your first time logging into the Unified Registration System website this school year. Profile information is not registration!

4. Register by following the link to participate in the Olympics "Museums. Parks. Estates".

5. When registering, you must fill in your personal information:
Full name, gender, school, class, home address,e-mail.
The data you enter is data individual participant or captain(depending on the selected type of credit). No need register a command on behalf of the teacher.
For all schools in Moscow Necessarily you need to enter the school login in the StatGrad system. If you don’t know it, you can use the link to search for the school login by number.

6. Fill in the information about the participation form:

• Individual competition
• Team competition

If the team has schoolchildren from different classes, then it is necessary that the captain was a student from the oldest class.

If you have registered a team and there are other teams in your class (that is, more than 10 people from the class want to participate in the Olympiad), then you can indicate “Teams in your class with whom you go to museums” (optional field).

• Please note that only the team captain is registered for the team competition ( schoolboy!).
  Other team members should only register if they intend to participate in competitions by submitting assignments for themselves and not for the team.

7. For the team competition, you can specify the type of team (classmates, family, friends). This field is optional.

8. Fill in the team name (for team competition).

9. For the team competition, fill out the team list. There is no need to write the captain a second time.

• Adults (parents, teachers) do NOT need to include themselves on the list of team members.
  If you want to indicate adult accompanying persons, then they must be indicated in the appropriate field (full name of parents, full name of teachers).

10. If you wish, you can indicate the full name of your parents as accompanying persons.

You can indicate the teachers who go to museums with you as part of the Olympiad.

In addition, after filling out the basic fields, you need to answer a series of questions that will help you check whether you have correctly registered for the Olympics.

11. Don’t forget to click the SEND button after filling out the form.

12. Log in on this site. Authorization links your data from the Unified Registration System to the Olympics website, so you will need to enter the login and password of the Unified Registration System during authorization, and then choose a Nickname (it is under it that, for example, your reviews or results of competitions will be published).
If you had a page on the Olympics last year and you want to link the results of last year’s Olympics, as well as the answers and results of competitions to a new page, then you can use last year’s login, then the results and answers will automatically be linked to this year’s page.

13. Take a photo for the title photo (one student for the individual competition and the entire team for the team competition). Upload a photo to your personal account (photo space to the left of the participant’s details). Photography is required for all Olympic participants.

14. What to do after registration? Congratulations! Registration completed. Now you need to go through an introductory tour, and after that you will be able to visit museums, parks and estates, complete tasks, answer questions and win.

The Olympics are held by the Department of Education together with the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow. The coordinator of the Olympiad is the Center for Pedagogical Excellence of the city of Moscow with the participation of the City Methodological Center of the Department of Education of the city of Moscow. The Olympics “Museums, Parks, Estates” 2018 – 2019 will give children studying in schools an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with previously unknown parks, museums and estates of our capital. Surely, students will meet new people who keep the secrets of these places, and interesting events.

What is the Olympics “Museums. Parks. Estates" 2017–2018?

During this competition, children are accompanied by adults. Together with them, the children visit cultural sites in Moscow included in the list of participants in the competition.

The organizers of each museum or park should prepare entertaining questions and tasks for participants. But answering them is not so easy. First you need to carefully study the exhibitions and expositions that are located on the territory.

Thanks to the Olympics, the children get acquainted with various areas of art, branches of science, the history of the city and what happened in Russia!

Who can take part?

Schoolchildren of the following age categories can participate in the competition:

1. Schoolchildren of grades 1-2.
2. Schoolchildren of 3-4 grades.
3. Schoolchildren of grades 5-7.
4. Schoolchildren of 8-9 grades.
5. Schoolchildren of 10-11 grades.

Both individual participants and school teams can play.

Stages of the Olympics

The Olympics consists of several rounds. But they all go through one stage.

Types of tours	Actions of participants
Introductory
Correspondence	complete tasks on the official website of the Olympics
Full-time	answer questions in museums, parks and estates.
Final bonus game	Participants who performed well at the main stage of the Olympics take part in an intellectual game-walk through one of the districts of Moscow.

How to take part in the game?

To play in this competition, you need to follow a few simple steps:

1. Register on the official website of the Olympiad.
2. Read the instructions very carefully “I have registered! What should we do now?
3. Strictly follow these rules of the game.

In June 2018, registration of museums wishing to take part in the Olympics and become venues for it has already opened.

Information on student registration will appear in the second half of August.

When will the Olympics be?

The Olympics runs from October to May of this year.

You can visit parks from October 1 to March 31, and museums from November 1 to March 31. This was done so that participants could answer questions in the park during the warmer months.

Game results

The results of the Olympics are summed up based on the results of the Main Stage.

The main stage includes three rounds:

• introductory tour “Warm-up”,
• correspondence tour “Museum greeting”,
• full-time tour “Museum Whirlpool”.

1. Introductory tour “Warm-up”

Participants in the game must complete tasks that are published on the Olympiad website. If the answers to 6 questions are correct, then the team is assigned a code, which is the team number.

2. Correspondence tour “Museum greeting”

Here the participant must select a museum and answer 5 test questions related to this object. You must answer on the page of the selected museum. To pass this stage, you need to give 4-5 correct answers.

3. In-person tour “Museum Whirlpool”

At this stage you need to come to the museum and complete tasks. Answers to these tasks can be given after the participants have carefully studied the exhibitions and displays of the museum.

When visiting each museum, park and estate, you must take a photo of an Olympic participant and upload it to your personal account. The photograph must be taken in such a way that the name of the museum, estate or park where the photograph was taken is visible.

In-person tour of museums and estates

If the correspondence round is successfully completed, the participant can download an Invitation to the museum in his personal account.

The invitation contains the name of the museum, information about the participant (team), as well as an answer form for the full-time tour.

Questions are issued directly at museums and estates. The tasks of the in-person tour are designed in such a way that answers to them can only be found on the territory of the cultural site itself.

In-person tour of the parks

The participant will see the task about parks on the page of the park to which he is invited. Answers and photographs are also uploaded through a special form.

When determining the result of each participant, his points for museums, estates and parks are summed up.

Final bonus game “I’m walking around Moscow”

Teams are offered entertaining tasks related to some object in Moscow (a monument, a beautiful building, a historically significant place, etc.).

You can watch a presentation of the participation of one of the teams in the final bonus game here:

To organizers (Museums, parks, estates)

News for organizers

Preparations are underway for the 2019/2020 academic year Olympics!

We are waiting for all interested Museums (museums, parks, estates): state, federal, private, departmental and others!

The Olympiad "Museums. Parks. Estates" is a way to awaken among schoolchildren a truly keen interest in the history of the capital and its cultural life in the present (2019. Description of the Olympiad.pdf).

What to do if you want your museum, park or estate to be included in the list of Olympic venues?

Necessary:

• Be ready to host Olympic participants.
• Register the museum, thereby informing the Organizing Committee of your desire to participate until June 30, 2019.
• Until June 30, 2019 create blocks of tasks (questions) for schoolchildren. If for some reason you do not make it by this deadline, be sure to notify the Organizing Committee.
  (see sections "Instructions" (for now only instructions are available last season 2018. Instructions.pdf and “How to write questions” (2019. How to write questions.pdf);
• If you want to do assignments for preschoolers in a non-standard format (see instructions), you must inform us before June 30;
• Send questions with answers to the organizing committee's email ( [email protected]);
• Set aside at least 1 day a month when visiting your museum will be free for participants of the Olympiad.
• Send the Museum logo before July 31, 2018 for the production of individual souvenir products with the Museum’s symbols. The logo can be replaced with another picture of the museum's choosing.

Museums open for participants on September 1. In the registration there is a field in which you can indicate the desired opening date of the museum. The possibility of opening the museum will depend on the availability of questions.