Professional Interests

Museum communication, educational activities in museums, socio-cultural projects, creative methods and development of systems thinking.

Professional experience

Previous experience includes intensive work at the museum sector of Moscow, successful inter-museum projects, coordination of the grant competitions, conducting seminars and trainings.

- Head of communication, curator, researcher and museum educator at the K.A. Timiryazev State
Biological Museum (2009 – 2015)

- Scientific secretary, the Ostankino estate museum (2007-2009)

- Deputy head of the department of scientific and educational and exposition work at the Scientific
Research Zoological Museum of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. (2015-2016)

- The founder and the manager of the inter-museum partnership program "Family Journey. The
Whole Family in Museums!" funded by the Department of Culture of Moscow (2008-2016)

- The coordinator of the children's program at the Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair (2017-2019).
The developer of children's and family museum programs, classes and events, as well as interactive
exhibitions for children and family audiences, museum games, family guides and quests.

Member of the Expert Board and later, a member of the Jury at the All-Russian International Festival.

Intermuseum, and also Sofia was an expert in the various competitions and professional programs.

Laureate of the Moscow Government Prize «For Contribution to the Development of Moscow Culture».

She provided seminars and trainings for a professional museum audience on the development of interactive guides, typology of tasks and sequences in quests and kids' guides , the game and interactivity in museums, management of inter-museum learning projects as the sociocultural project (target audiences, project team and partners, etc.)