Еvery year in May 24, the Slav world commemorates its enlighteners Cyril and Methodius. In 1991, Russia began to celebrate the Day of the Slav Written Language and Culture as an official State festival. In 2006, the Museum organizes a big program on the territory of the historical and architectural complex “Konny Dvor”. Subsequently there established traditional programs connected with this festival. The Museum, founded on the basis of the richest collections of the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery which was one of the leading centers of book culture in Old Russia, permit to make the festive programs lively and varied.

The festive events of 2008 were organized in May 22 – 24. They began with a gala theatrical prologue scripted and staged by Bakhareva Galina Vladimirovna, a director of the youth theater “Island” - a permanent participant of the Museum festivals.

2008 was declared was the Family Year in Russia and the Museum congratulated the local artistic dynasties. The artistic couples and their children sticking to the family tradition were marked at the closing ceremony of the biannual competitive exhibition “Spring Salon – 2008” which was scheduled for the opening ceremony of the Days of the Slav Written Language and Culture. The exhibition organizers prepared special prizes for the artistic dynasties.

In May 22 – 23, excursions and educational programs at the Museum exhibitions were organized to illustrate unknown pages in history of the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery, to show documents signed by Russian tsars, manuscripts, old books and icons. The educational program “ First ABC and then All Science” for the fifth class pupils of Sergiev Posad and the Sergiev Posad district helped the children to find out how the written language was invented, how the contemporary alphabet appeared, what materials were used for inscribing texts, what Glagolitic and Cyrilic alphabets were like what Cyril and Methodius were when they lived.