The Museum Solutions creative group was established in 2011 by specialists in the field of museum affairs and education based on experience gained during the implementation of individual projects and work in the New Museums for Siberia program (2010-2014) with the support of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. 

Since 2022, the group's members have been working on their own museum and socio-cultural projects.

Natalia Kopelyanskaya is a museologist, sociocultural, and museum designer. She graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities. As a designer, she has collaborated with the K.A. Timiryazev State Biological Museum, the Perm State Art Gallery, the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied, and Folk Art, the Polenovo Museum-Reserve, and the United Museum of Almaty, among others. She has developed educational courses on sociocultural and museum design for museums in Russia and Central Asia. She is an expert in museum competitions. She has worked at the M.I. Rudomino All-Russian Library for Foreign Literature and the Museum Design Laboratory of the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies. She is also the author and host of the Museum Wanderer Telegram channel .

Ekaterina Gandrabura is a curator, art manager, and specialist in cultural project startups. She has authored and co-authored numerous exhibition and research projects in the cultural sphere. She managed the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum and Exhibition Center (Moscow) and worked in publishing and municipal consulting. She is also an expert in museum competitions.

Anna Shcherbakova is a PhD in philology, literary scholar, curator, independent museum designer and consultant, and member of the Expert Council of the Museum Olympus competition . She has worked at the Melikhovo State Museum-Reserve (Chekhov, Moscow Region), the State Biological Museum (Moscow), and the K.V. Arsenyev Museum of the History of the Far East (Vladivostok). She has authored and co-authored numerous exhibition and display projects in many regions of Russia.

Aleksandr Artamonov is a systems engineer, self-employed entrepreneur, consultant in the field of sociocultural design, author and presenter of project seminars, and co-author of several museum development concepts. He is also a member of the Presidium of the Association " Automation of Museum Direction and Information Technologies (ADIT) " and a leading specialist at the journal "Russian Peasant Studies" of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). 

Recent projects and programs

Research

2021 

• Research of the historical fund and archive of the Far Eastern Shipping Company, Vladivostok (commissioned by the FESCO transport group).

Educational

2010-2015

• "Museumstan" - seminars, trainings, consultations for museum staff and examination of competitive museum projects in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Social Development, Karaganda (Kazakhstan), the Almadeniat Foundation (Almaty), and the Department of Culture of Atyrau (Kazakhstan)
• "New Museums for Siberia" is an educational program for museum professionals in the Siberian, Ural, and Far Eastern Federal Districts, supported by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. Ten project-based seminars and three international internships were organized and conducted, with over 500 participants. Two volumes of the collection "Museums as a Space for Education" were published.

Exhibition and curatorial

2011-2015

• "Conceptualizing the Museum" is a project to create a new approach to the permanent exhibition at the Timiryazev State Biological Museum, led by the Strelka Institute and Dutch designers. A major seminar on "Natural Science Design" will be held. Led by N. Kopelyanskaya.
• The concept for David Yakobashvili's private museum, "Collection,"   was developed in collaboration with the architectural firm hi!Arch (Vladimir Gumankov, Elena Manuilova). Curatorial team: A. Artamonov, N. Kopelyanskaya, A. Shcherbakova.
• Development Concept for the All-Russian State Museum of Decorative, Applied, and Folk Art. Coordinator: N. Kopelyanskaya
• Vadim Sidur Museum Development Concept / Authors: N. Kopelyanskaya, A. Artamonov, with the participation of T. Gafar
• The exhibition "How to Build a Zoo" for the 125th anniversary of the Moscow Zoo at the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman International Exhibition Center. Curatorial team led by N. Kopelyanskaya.
• The development concept and the concept of the permanent exhibition of the Perm State Art Gallery   - 2014. Curators - N. Kopelyanskaya, N. Tolstaya, architect - Igor Chirkin.    
• The concept for the development of the Polenovo State Museum-Estate
• Consulting and curating exhibition and museum projects within the framework of the "Genius of the Place. New Local History" competition of the Russian Cultural Foundation (Amur State Museum of Local History, Primorsky United Museum named after K. Arsenyev)

2016

• "Attic. Stories” - curator Elena Ivanova, consultants N. Kopelyanskaya, L. Kopylov   
• "Open Marine Halls. Pacific Time" - curators Svetlana Voronina and Anna Shcherbakova, designer Vasily Korneev. Consultants - N. Kopelyanskaya and L. Kopylov 

Our publications can be found in professional journals and collections

"60th Parallel" , "Museum" , "World of the Museum" , "Museum Design" , "Museum Communication" , "Museum and the Region"  , etc.