(260517) -- ST. PETERSBURG, May 17, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Visitors learn to make ethnic handicrafts at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 16, 2026. During the Night of Museums, an event held from May 16 to 17 in Russia, more than 140 museums, galleries, libraries, exhibition halls and concert halls stay open from evening till night, to mark the upcoming International Museum Day, observed globally on May 18. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua)