Cultural and Exhibition Center "Rainbow" (Cheboksary)

Rainbow Cultural and Exhibition Center received its first visitors on March 23, 2000. A year later, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation included it in the All-Russian Register of Museums.

In 2005, the Russian-Indian cultural and information center "Maharaja" was opened on the basis of the CEC. Artists and designers worked on the decoration of the hall, taking the Indian palace style of the XVII century as a basis. Traditional elements of the palace architecture interior are reproduced: openwork arches, carved grids on windows, an entrance portal with ornamental paintings, stained glass ceiling windows. The main exhibits of the hall are examples of decorative and applied art, musical instruments, traditional Indian costume, handmade dolls.

In 2013, the information and educational center "Russian Museum: Virtual Branch" was opened in the Raduga ECC - a kind of electronic analogue of the collection of the Russian Museum. Today, the project is an extensive network of 203 virtual branches in museums, educational institutions and institutions of further education, science and culture in Russia and abroad. In 2012, the 100th virtual branch in Antarctica was opened. The Cheboksary branch became the 121st.

In 2014, the Resource Center for Creative Development of Children and Youth with Different Physical and Social Possibilities was opened here. The program, developed by the author’s team of the Russian Center for Museum Pedagogy and Children’s Creativity in cooperation with the Presidential Center B.N. Yeltsin and the Union of Museums of Russia, offers the unification of the school and the museum into a single educational space. Similar resource centers have been opened in Petrozavodsk, Kazan, Yoshkar-Ola, Kostroma, Kaliningrad, Tula, Omsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The program covers all levels of education from preschool to higher education and includes art therapy in the museum.

The permanent exhibition includes works by honored artists of Russia and Chuvashia L.M. and A.V. Aktsynov from the series “Old Cheboksary”, a collection of minerals, as well as household items of Chuvash culture.

The activity of the center is noted by the Moscow Foundation for the Preservation of Culture and the Russian Foundation for Culture, headed by N. Mikhalkov.