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In 2014 Moscow departments of culture and education launched a brand new project named “Lesson in a museum”. The idea was to broaden school curriculum, giving students opportunity to see relationship between school subjects and life and to accustom kids to visiting museums. For museums it became a chance not to just attract new guests, but to grow constant and loyal visitors. Project provides an interdisciplinary approach, it helps to consolidate knowledge from different school subjects into a holistic picture. The project is tightly bound to specific topics of school curriculum, but also includes research and creative tasks beyond the scope of the school program. We consider it necessary to use the program not only for goals of school education, but also for realizing the mission of the zoo – environmental & conservation education, so we included a range of tasks dedicated to it in every separate program. For pilot launch Moscow museum proposed 120 programs, 16 proposals from 12 museums were selected as the best ones, Moscow zoo among them. Currently zoo conducts lessons on 6 topics in zoology and science, an English lesson for elementary school is on the way.