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Moscow Museums All Moscow museums don't work on public holidays. Average ticket price for the Moscow museums listed here is 100-140 roubles (5$) for foreigners.There are many Moscow museums, so here we list the Moscow museums we find the most interesting. You can find additional information about Moscow museums (in russian) on the web http://www.museum.ru (Museums of Russia).
Moscow Museums at the Kremlin and Red Square THE KREMLIN Originally the walls around the Kremlin (fortress) were first elevated in the 10th century and were made of wood. In the 13th century brick walls were added. The modern Kremlin, as it is now, was built in the 16th century and it was the second powerful castle in Europe after the one in Milan. Also, in the 16th century most of the decoration works were made, and the four famous cathedrals inside the Kremlin were built in this period.
LENIN'S MAUSOLEUM A cult place in the middle of the Red Square, near the Kremlin. Inside there is the tiny man, the guru of the communists, lying in a glass coffin - they say that in case of a nuclear attack, the coffin will go underground and slide on the rails somewhere far far away.
MUSEUM OF HISTORY Everything you need to know about the history of Russia: objects, documents, paintings, photos. They have a rich collection of prehistorical objects, for example there are carved stone tools, hunting spears, female statuettes, huge earth pots from 3000 years before our era... and a long wooden boat, mammoth corns, human squeletons and ornaments. As you go round the museum you see also Iron, and Bronze Age objects : warrior armour suits, ornated implements, obects of cult.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY The former museum of Revolution. Located in the palace this museum is very nice outside, but not in the greatest condition on the inside. The permanent collection dedicated to the 20th century in Russia. There are interesting temporary ehibitions from time to time.
Moscow Art Museums TRETYAKOV ART GALLERY The Tretyakov Gallery possesses the finest collection of traditional Russian painting in the world. The core of the museum's collection was assembled in the middle of the nineteenth century by Pavel Tretyakov, a wealthy Moscow merchant whose passion for collecting included violins, birds, and milk cows as well as Russian art. Tretyakov donated his extensive collection to the city in 1892, and subsequent enlargement has long since provided the Gallery with far more works than it can possibly exhibit in its limited space. Although this means that innumerable fine works rarely see the light of day, it also means that those works that are displayed are without exception masterpieces of their period and genre. While everything in the Tretyakov deserves and rewards patient attention, its collection of icons stands as the definitive presentation of this most Russian of art forms. Address: Lavrushinskiy pereulok #10, tel. 951-1362, Area: Zamoskvorechie (south center), metro Tretyakovskaya. Open: TU..SU: 10:00 — 18:30 .
TRETYAKOV ART GALLERY The main exhibition is «The Art of the XXth Century». One hall is a pernament exhibition of greatest Russian artists of XXth centrury: Malevich, Rodchenko; another is exhibiting contemporary Russian artists' works. The other hall is for temporary exhibitions of Russian artists and photographers. Address: Krimskiy Val #10, tel. 951-1362, Area: Arbat & Kropotkinskaya (center south-west),
PUSHKIN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Opened in 1912, the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum possesses a collection of European art second in Russia after St. Petersburg's Hermitage. Much of the strength of the collection is in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, a result of the oft-forgotten fact that such works gained an appreciative audience in Russia long before they captured the imagination of collectors further west. Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe resides here, as do Renoir's Bathing in the Seine, a host of fine works by Van Gogh and Matisse, and an entire gallery of Gauguins. Address: Volhonka street #12, tel. 203-9578. Area: Arbat & Kropotkinskaya, metro Kropotkinskaya. Open: TU..SU: 10:00 — 18:30.
PERSONAL COLLECTIONS MUSEUM The Personal Collections Museum is a part of the Pushkin Museum. A buiding next to the Pushkin Museum has various kinds of temporary and pernament exhibits: personal collections, Russian and other art, contemporary art etc. Sometimes hosts advertisement exhibitions as well. Address: Volhonka street #14, tel. 203-1546, Area: Arbat & Kropotkinskaya, metro Kropotkinskaya. Open: WE..SU: 12:00 — 19:00 (ticket sales till 18.00).
THE MUSEM OF RUSSIAN TRADITIONAL ART There are only contemporary exhibitions of Russian traditional art, dedicated to its history, types, regions. Address: Leontievski lane #7, tel. 291-8718, Area: Tverskaya, metro: Pushkinskaya, Arbatskaya. Open: TU..SA: 11:00 — 17:00 .
MAYAKOVSKY MUSEUM Mayakovskiy is a famous Russian poet of the beginning of XXth century. But even if your aren't interested in literature itself it might be interesting to visit this museum anyway. It is strangely decorated and uncommon building with plenty of interesting things from 1920—1930 inside. That will carry you to the fairytale time after the First World War when people in Russia were thinking about the bright future. Address: Lubyanskiy proezd #3/6, tel. 921-9387 Area: Kitai Gorod, metro Lubyanka Open: MO..TU: 10:00 — 17:00, TH: 13:00 — 20:00.
MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM The first museum of contemporary art in Moscow, opened not long ago by Zurab Zereteli — a man whom many people don't like for bad taste. Because he's the one who chooses, the collection is not very good, there are many primitive things. But it's getting better: the installations, objects and paitings of contemporary Russian artists sre starting to appear. Address: Petrovka street #25 tel. 200-6695, 200-2890. Area: Tverskaya, metro: Chekhovskaya Open: WE..MO: 12:00 — 19:00.
Moscow Scientific Museums MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF COSMONAUTICS The museum is very stylish, with colour lamps and a cosmic structure welcoming you. You can see real cosmonaut's equipment, like Yuri Gagarin's orange training suit and the spheric vessel, in which he re-entered the Earth after his 108 minutes orbit trip around the Earth in the first passenger spacecraft in 1961.There are several 'first' spacecrafts which were used to explore the Moon: the UFO like spacecraft Luna 3, which orbited the moon and made the first photos of the 'invisible' side of the Moon in 1959. The round red Luna 16 , which was the first spacecraft to make a Return trip Earth-Moon-Earth and carried back Moon soil samples in 1970. And You can see video documents of trainings of cosmonauts and recordings on board. There's a great cinema hall all decorated with metallic walls moulded like cells, where one can lay back and enjoy a slide show, accompanied by cosmic-ambient music. You can be photographed (with your own camera) wearing a real spacesuit for 30 Rbles (1$). They sell cosmaunaut space-food, such as a tube with sweet juice inside, or very compressed bread, and cereal bars.
POLITECHNICAL MUSEUMS The museum exhibiting all the achievements of Russian science. Lomonosov's laboratory, the laboratory where for the first time in history the artificial rubber was made, the special periodic table of Mendeleev, the first radio in the world made by Popov, the set where the first hologram was made, collection of old Russian cars and much more.
LOMAKOVSKI'S MUSEUM OF OLD CARS & MOTORBIKES Th is is the only museum of its kind in Russia and it's located in an ordinary garage. Masterpieces of the collection are nazi elite cars and the BMW which they don't have in BMW museum in Germany.
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