Moscow Moscow museums

Moscow museums

Moscow museums are large in number and wide in variety, which allows us to tailor your travel program to your specific interests.

There are many extraordinary and unique museums worth seeing in addition to the “classics” visited by most travelers (The Kremlin, Tretyakov gallery, and the Pushkin House-Museum, for example). Among these are thematic museums (the GULAG History Museum, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, the Museum of the Battle of Borodino, the Museum of Cosmonautics, and the Museum of Russian Icons, to name several) and house-museums, which give you the opportunity to acquaint yourself with the life of important Muscovites (including Tolstoy, Pushkin, Chekhov, and Gorky) and their artistic worlds. House-museums are also not limited to only the most famous Russian writers. You can visit the former apartment of the great ballerina Galina Ulanova, which is located in one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, some of the tallest high-rises in Moscow. Each house-museum offers a unique experience and new outlook on what life in Moscow entailed for these significant figures.

Guided tour to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

Mikhail Vrubel hall in the State Tretyakov Gallery

Vasily Surikov - Boyaryna Morozova (1887), exposed in State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

Ilya Repin - Ivan the Terrible and His Son (1885)

Pavel Tretyakov's portrait by Ilya Repin, State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

Fyodor Dostoyevsky s portrait by Vasily Perov (1872), State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

The Apotheosis of War (1871), Vasily Vereshchagin

The New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val

Moscow courtyard (1878) by Vasily Polenov

Icon's hall in the State Tretyakov Gallery

The Hunters at Rest by Vasily Perov, State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

Maiolica fireplace by Mikhail Vrubel exposed in the State Tretyakov Gallery

Guided tour to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

Tretyakov Gallery guided tour

A tour with an expert guide from the IdeaGuide team to Moscow’s main museum with Russian paintings, the State Tretyakov Gallery, is a mandatory item on the program if you desire to become familiar with its best specimens. The tour to the Tretyakov Gallery is given in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages.

Bunker 42 (Cold War Museum)

Bunker 42 (the Cold War Museum)

This Bunker is from the middle of the last century. In our subjective opinion, in many ways "Disneyland" is not with the most interesting excursion in terms of content. This does not change its intended purpose.

Monomakh's Cap - Kremlin Armoury Chamber guided tour

Ivan IV the Terrible Throne in Armoury Chamber

Moscow Armoury guided tour

The Kremlin Armoury Chamber guided tour

A visit to the Kremlin Armoury Chamber can be included in your tour to the Moscow Kremlin. The Armoury Chamber has an extremely extensive collection of househould items and finery owned and worn by Tsars and Princes. It is important to note that tickets (skip-the-line tickets) need to be reserved as early as possible, and the access is strictly controlled. We provide this tour in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

the Monument to the Conquerors of Space - visible from afar

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (Space Museum) at VDNKh - guided tour in English, French and other languages

Cosmonauts Alley - Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (Space Museum) at VDNKh

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (Space Museum) exhibition

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (Space Museum) guided tour

the Monument to the Conquerors of Space - visible from afar

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow

This is one of Moscow’s favorite museums for its visitors – both among the younger generation and adults.

Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts in 1912 (before the title's change)

Blue Dancers, 1899, Edgar Degas, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow

Acrobat on a Ball, 1905, Pablo Picasso - Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow

Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts in 1912 (before the title's change)

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Tour through one of Moscow's main galleries, rich with European paintings, including an impressive number of works from the collectors of impressionist art Shchukin and Morozov

Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, 1927, architect Konstantin Melnikov

Guided Tour to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, 1927, architect Konstantin Melnikov

Tolerance Museum tour

Guided Tour to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
This is an important center dedicated to keeping the memory of one of the country's most important problems alive. At the same time, it is a vivid monument to constructivism created by Konstantin Melnikov.

Guided tour of the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val - excursion in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German

Bathing of a Red Horse, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1912, the New Tretyakov Gallery exposition

Vladimir Lenin body in its coffin, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, the New Tretyakov Gallery exposition

Black Square, 1915, Kazimir Malevich, the New Tretyakov Gallery exposition

Bells. Ivan the Great Bell, Aristarkh Lentulov, the New Tretyakov Gallery exposition

Composition VII, 1913, Wassily Kandinsky, the New Tretyakov Gallery exposition

Peasant Woman, 1927, Vera Mukhina, the New Tretyakov Gallery exposition

Above the Town, 1914-18, Marc Chagall, the New Tretyakov Gallery exposition

Bread, 1939, sculptor Vera Mukhina, the New Tretyakov Gallery exposition

Kazimir Malevich hall in the New Tretyakov Gallery

Worker's club project, Alexander Rodchenko

Seedsman, Ivan Shadr, the New Tretyakov Gallery

Guided tour of the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val - excursion in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German

New Tretyakov Gallery

Guided tour of the New Tretyakov Gallery (20^th century) on Krymsky Val.
This tour is to the branch of the Tretyakov Gallery that has collections of twentieth-century art, starting with avant-garde and ending with perestroika. The new Tretyakov, as it is commonly named, is on the bank of the Moscow River, and the Muzeon was set up in the adjacent park.

GULAG History Museum in Moscow - guided tour in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese

Gulag History Museum exposition and guided tour

Gulag Archipelago geographical map in GULAG History Museum in Moscow

Gulag History Museum exposition - previous location

Gulag History Museum exposition - old exposition

GULAG History Museum in Moscow - guided tour in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese

Gulag History Museum

A tour through this museum will help you get an understanding of that frightening phenomenon in Soviet history called the GULAG. Although it is paradoxical, this legacy is still disputed or denied by some in society. Nonetheless, the museum opened up in a new building in 2015.

Leo Tolstoy house museum in Khamovniki, guided tour

Leo Tolstoy's writing desk in house museum in Khamovniki

Living room (salon) in house museum in Khamovniki

Leo Tolstoy house museum in Khamovniki, guided tour

Leo Tolstoy house museum in Khamovniki

World-famous Leo Tolstoy (quite possibly Russia's most famous writer) lived in Moscow for a lengthy period of time, and wrote some his greatest novels there. A guided tour to his house museum in Khamovniki District opens the door to understanding the life and creative activity performed by this writer.

Ryabushkinsky Mansion in Moscow, designed by Fyodor Schechtel

The central staircase at Ryabushkinsky Mansion

Gorky, Stalin and Molotov (in the middle)

Gorky and Genrikh Yagoda, chief of NKVD ( People's Commissar for Internal Affairs)

Ryabushkinsky Mansion in Moscow, designed by Fyodor Schechtel

Maxim Gorky House-Museum

Taking a tour of this museum is not as much about the writer Maxim Gorky as it is about the style of Art Nouveau as performed by the leading architect representing this trend in Moscow, Fyodor Schechtel.

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