On 20 May 2023, a mini-performance entitled «Artists’ Monologues: A Step into the Unknown» took place in the courtyard of the Rostov Museum of Local Lore in honour of the 20th anniversary of cooperation between Center-invest Bank and the Rostov Regional Museum of Local Lore.

For more than 20 years, Center-invest Bank and the Museum of Local Lore have been running a programme of free visits to the «Treasures of the Don Steppes» exhibition for high school students. The programme has given more than 100,000 students from across the region the opportunity to visit the exhibition free of charge and learn about the culture and history of their home region.

The mini-performance was staged by Dmitry Tsupko, a theatre director from Rostov, based on a play by Sergey Medvedev. For one evening, the façade of the museum was transformed into an improvised stage where the characters of the performance, famous artists, shared their stories with the audience.

«Museums should not be interactive but proactive, so that the audience feels that it is part of the world in which the events of the museum exhibition take place, responsible for the events of the past in order to create a better future. We are pleased that our joint programme continues to be of interest to the young people of Rostov-on-Don and that our Don museums are striving to meet the interests of the public by offering new forms for presenting information and competing effectively for attention», commented Mr. Vasily Vysokov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Center-invest Bank, Professor and Doctor of Economics.

Center-invest Bank provides comprehensive funding for students to visit historical exhibitions and educational lectures at museums and galleries in Southern Russia, contributing to the economic and cultural development of the region.