MOSCOW, April 13, Asia-Plus - International exhibition of children’s drawings formally titled “Children Draw Fairy-Tales” opened at the Children’s Center Museion of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow on April 11. 

This children’s educational project initiated by the museum has been supported by the Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and it called on member nations of the SCO to organize the exhibition. 

Beijing was the first to welcome the exhibition.  It opened at China’s Museum of Fine Arts on May 29, 2005.  More than 2000 works by children from member nations of the Organization were put on display in the exhibition and more than 50,000 people visited the exhibition over one week alone. 

In June 2005, the exhibition was organized in the Kazakh capital city of Astana.  It then was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and some cities of China.  

Senior representatives from diplomatic missions of member nations of the SCO accredited in Russia attended the exhibition in Moscow.    

After Moscow, the exhibition will travel to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and then to Dushanbe.