Museum and exhibition center. Liza Chaikina included in the Tver house of folk art and represents a methodological center for the preservation of the traditions of folk culture. He is a former Museum of Komsomol glory of the name Liza Chaikina and still bears the name of this illustrious women. It hosts all-Russian, interregional, international and regional exhibitions of traditional folk arts and crafts, conferences, seminars, workshops, competitions, there is a Fund of works of folk art. During the existence of the Museum and exhibition center here, there were more than 70 exhibitions.
The main activities of the center related with the development of all genres and types of Amateur arts: theatre, music, dance, circus, film and photography, folk arts and crafts, poetry and painting. Special attention is paid to the development of children's creativity, promotion of folk customs, the support of "popular" bands, houses of culture, centres of crafts and folklore. The main theme of the exhibition centre's activities is to familiarize people with the works and traditions of folk culture.
Today, the Museum and exhibition center. Liza Chaikina is the largest specialized exhibition space in Tver. Here there are the most complex and diverse exhibition projects, the spacious dining rooms, modular equipment, good lighting. The conference hall allows organizing meetings, musical evenings, seminars, conferences, arrange screenings.
The staff of the Museum and exhibition center has created a complex large – scale projects including the exhibition of arts and crafts "Wreath of talents", regional exhibition "Tver carvers", "Toy master", "Tver folk costume". The idea of the exhibition dedicated to the Tver national costume has arisen because of an increased interest in historical values in different areas of folk art. The exhibition introduced visitors from Tver folk costume, with its history and what it has become now. In the exposition would be the clothes of the 19th-20th centuries from the collections of the Tver United Museum, Tver state University, all-Russian historical and ethnographic Museum in Torzhok, Tver College of music Torzhok school gold needlework, public and school museums, houses of culture, folklore groups, businesses, arts and crafts Tver. Also the costumes were submitted by collectors and directly works. The exhibition was held in 2001, but over the years the specialists of the center was to gather information about Tver folk costume and participated in national and regional conferences and seminars. In 2011 the centre was eaten, the international forum devoted to problems of studying and preservation of folk costumes in the CIS for.
The project called "the Original art of Tver land" has allowed the most widely to present the works of masters of decorative and applied arts, artists and photographers Tver. The exhibition "a Wreath of talents" was held five times. And each time she collected two hundred artists from all areas of the Tver region. "A wreath of talents" not only showcases work made by talented, but also reveals to people the true spiritual values and enriches the inner world of everyone who came.
Museum and exhibition center is actively working with educational institutions for the arts. Since 2010 the centre has opened a "School of excellence", where students learn the skills of traditional arts and crafts. Very popular among the visitors of the center are exhibitions of decorative-applied and fine art: "I love this land", "the warrior and the Creator" (masters are parties of war and homefront), "Glorious sons of the Fatherland", "Victory salute". During the exhibitions held master classes for everyone, sightseeing, traditional festivals, labs, seminars.
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