Excursions

Excursion activity is one of the main forms of cultural and educational activities of the Elbasy Library. All components of museum communication are actively implemented in the Library: temporary exhibitions, traditional and new forms of guided tours, audio-visual means, etc.

Particular attention is paid to determining the cultural and educational needs of visitors and the quality of cultural and information impact of permanent expositions and temporary exhibitions to various groups of visitors.

In order to improve the methodology for conducting guided tours, guidance papers were worked out for various categories of visitors were made: junior school age, senior pupils and students, groups of visitors with disabilities and VIP delegations. Thematic, travelling guided tours and lessons-guided tours to individual expositions, types of collections, as well as exhibition tours are prepared and conducted in accordance with the visitors’ wishes and requests.

The guided tours are held in two buildings (for details see Library’s visit).

 1. Site tours are for the visitors who for the first time come to the Museum and Library and wish to know about their history and collections. During this tour, you can see all expositions and halls and it takes you about 50 minutes.

2. Thematic tours are held based on stationary expositions and temporary thematic exhibitions. They are devoted to the disclosure of a specific topic or issue. The listeners of the thematic tours have unique opportunity to be acquainted with the exhibits, not often exhibited in the expositions and located in the collections of the Library.

3. Lesson-guided tour is considered as a form of educational work for certain groups. The lesson-guided tour is held within the limits of the popularization of the museum collection of separate exhibits, collections with the purpose of highlighting the certain themes of Kazakhstan’s history.

Along with traditional types of guided tours, the Elbasy Library has developed and implemented another forms of museum communication, such as travelling tours, quests and online tours.

4. Travelling tours within the framework of the “Tungysh”, “Atameken”, “Historical choice” projects are aimed at popularizing the creative ideas and initiatives of Elbasy, introduce him to his life and activity. Travelling thematic tours based on the results of the implementation of the museology program “Museum Collection”: “|Award to the President - gratitude to the people”, “Collection of weapons in the collection of the Library of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan” will tell about the most interesting expositions of the Elbasy Library in an illustrative form.

This is a large-scale information and image work for a wide range of listeners: from kindergarten children to military personnel and employees of various organizations. This form of tours allows not only to be acquainted with authentic exhibits, archival materials stored in the Elbasy Library, but also to conduct guided tours in an interactive format, which will be especially preserved in the memory of tourists.

5. Quests are aimed at a youth audience and include elements of action and adventure computer games, allowing you to be acquainted with the expositions in a playful, easy and accessible way. The Library of the Elbasy hosts quest tours named “At the dawn of Independence”, “Mangilik El”, “The path leading to the Elbasy”, etc.

6. Online tours are conducted using modern communication tools on the main expositions of the Elbasy Library and for wide audience.