Marina Khrustaleva

Biography

Member of the Moscow Architecture Preservation Society (MAPS) administration, and a member of the Coordination Council for the Archnadzor movement. She is also a journalist and curator.

She is an Art Historian in the Department of Art History at the Russian State University for the Humanities; she holds a Master of Arts in Cultural Management degree from the Department of Social Cultural Development at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. She worked at the A. V. Schusev State Museum of Architecture from 2000 to 2002. She has been co-curator for a number of exhibition projection festivals, including “ArchMoskva” (2003), “ArchStoyanie” (2006), “A Place of Genius” (2010), and the forum M: ER “Moscow: The Economics of Reincarnation” at the Moscow School of Management (SKOLKOVO) in 2010. She is a member of the initiative group for creating the Center for Russian Avant-garde.

She has participated in a number of expert councils: the expert council competition “A Changing Museum in a Changing World” for the V. Potanin Charity Foundation (2008–2009), the expert council on managing ethno-cultural projects for the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Regional Development (2008), and expert councils for the Ministry of Ecology and Beautification and the Kaluga District’s Ministry of Tourism (2009–2010).

She is the author of more than 40 publications on the history of architecture and land art, museum design and preservation, and the modern use of cultural heritage objects. She translated the book: by Charles Landry Creative City. M.: “Classics XXI”, 2005, 2010. She has been the editor of analytical reports for MAPS and SAVE Europe`s Heritage the “Moscow Architectural Heritage: Point of No Return” (2007, 2009) and “Samara: Heritage in Danger” (2009); she is also the author of the guidebook “Journey from Moscow to Kaluga: 100 Happy Moments Along the Way” (2009).

She has participated in the following international conferences, which includes professional exchange programs:
July 2011 International Visitors Leadership Program in Heritage Preservation, USA.
September 2003 Dutch-Russian Practical Workshop on Managing Architectural Archives, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam.
July 2002 International UNESCO — ICOMOS workshop “World Cultural Heritage in Armenia”, Erevan.