The main art museums of the country. The best museums in Russia

Visiting Moscow museums will now be available to everyone. The Department of Culture of the capital has adopted a resolution that says that one day of each month the entrance to the museums, which are supervised by the Department of Culture of Moscow, will be free. Now every 3rd Sunday of the month any visitor will be able to enter the museums for free. In addition, do not forget that traditionally Moscow museums receive visitors for free on New Year's holidays and on the Night of Museums, and they can also be made free on May holidays, on Russia Day (June 12), Moscow City Day (September 6-7), National Unity Day (November 4), possibly during other holidays. Follow the news on the site.

On the day of the action “To Moscow museums - for free”, museum workers note a surge in the activity of visitors who line up at the ticket offices in those museums that are especially loved by Muscovites and guests of the capital.

This resolution does not apply to museums of federal importance, therefore, the entrance to such museums remains paid (, etc.).

Below is a list of free ones valid in 2018.

List of museums with permanent free admission

Address: Khamovnichesky Val, 36.
Working hours:
Tuesday - Friday - from 9:00 to 16:30;
Saturday - from 10:00 to 16:30.
Days off: Sunday, Monday.
The last Tuesday of every month is a sanitary day.

Address: Sarinsky pr., 13.
Opening hours: Mon-Thu 10:00-17:00, Fri 10:00-16:00.
Museum visits are by appointment.

Museum of Industrial Culture

Address: st. District, d.3A.
Opening hours: Mon–Sun 11:00–19:00.

Museum of local lore "House on the Embankment"

Address: st. Serafimovich, d.2.
Opening hours: Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 14:00–20:00; Thu 14:00–21:00.

Museum of the History of the City Psychiatric Hospital. Alekseeva (Kashchenko)

Address: Zagorodnoe highway, 2.
Opening hours: Tue, Wed, Fri 9.00:15.00.

Hermitage is the best museum in Europe. This is what millions of tourists from all over the world have decided by leaving reviews on the international travel portal TripAdvisor. In total, 509 cultural institutions of the world were analyzed. What does the "Russian ten" look like Natalia Letnikova.

Hermitage

3 million pieces. 20 kilometers of masterpieces. And the Hermitage began as a private collection of Catherine II of 225 paintings. Only the elite could see him, having received a ticket at the palace office and dressed in a tailcoat or uniform. The Hermitage today is the masterpieces of Rembrandt and Raphael, Giorgione and Rubens, Titian and Van Dyck. This is the only opportunity to see the works of Leonardo da Vinci in Russia.

The experts calculated: if you stop for just a minute at each exhibit in the Hermitage, it will take 8 years without sleep and rest to see everything.

Tretyakov Gallery

Tretyakov Gallery

The Hermitage not only delights, but also inspires. It was after his visit that Pavel Tretyakov got excited about the idea of ​​his own collection of paintings. As a result, the Tretyakov Gallery has become one of the most significant collections of works by Russian artists in the world. Even the famous facade is the creation of Viktor Vasnetsov. The Tretyakov gallery is rich in paintings with history. The first "fabulous" plot of Russian painting is "Mermaids" by Ivan Kramskoy, written under the impression of Gogol's works. And the largest canvas of the Tretyakov Gallery "The Appearance of Christ to the People" is Alexander Ivanov's graduation work, which he wrote for 20 years.

Armouries

Armouries

Treasury of Moscow princes and Russian tsars.

The indispensable attributes of sovereign power are kept: the scepter, orb, Monomakh's cap, which was crowned as king before the reign of Peter I. Among the 4,000 exhibits is the world's only double throne.

It was created specifically for the princely brothers Ivan V and Peter Alekseevich, who together were crowned kings. And of course, a significant part of the museum-treasury is a weapon. But also exclusively as a work of art. For example, the gun of Catherine II in the Rococo style.

floating museum

floating museum

Submarine B-413. Place of fun - the city of Kaliningrad. For 20 years, the submarine has been in combat service in the Northern Fleet. She has traveled to Cuba and Guinea. And even in peacetime, the crew managed to get the title of "Excellent Ship".

Retired since 2000. In Russia, by the way, four submarines have become museums, all of them are open to the public. But the B-413 is the only one that has been preserved in its original form. Everything is the same on the ship: mechanisms, ammunition, weapons. And visitors to the museum become submariners for a while. The crew goes on virtual scuba diving, conducts a torpedo attack, copes with an accident in the compartment.

Russian Museum

Russian Museum

The world's largest collection of Russian art is the Russian Museum, created by imperial decree at the end of the 19th century. The exposition, located in 5 palaces of St. Petersburg, includes paintings whose names have long become household names: "The Last Day of Pompeii", "Barge Haulers on the Volga", "The Ninth Wave". In total, there are more than 400,000 exhibits in the collection. Despite its serious status, the museum is ready for experiments, which confirms the presence of the youngest department of the latest trends. Unusual exhibitions complete the image. For example, at the end of 2013, Sylvester Stallone exhibited at the Russian Museum. The actor draws in the spirit of expressionism.

Diamond fund

Diamond fund

A mountain of gems of historical and artistic value. The collection began to be collected by decree of Peter I.

The most famous exhibit is the Great Imperial Crown. In record time, in just two months, the craftsmen set 4,936 diamonds and 75 pearls in silver. Decorated the crown with a bright red crystal - spinel. The main symbol of the power of Russian monarchs, weighing almost 2 kg, was placed on the heads of all emperors, starting with Catherine II. One of the most prestigious exhibits is the Orlov diamond, which adorns the scepter of Catherine the Great, bought for her by Count Orlov, the largest in the Diamond Fund and one of the most expensive in the world. A diamond was found in India, where it is supposed to have been the eye of the Buddha.

Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin

The most European in Russia is the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. In the center of Moscow, in a building resembling an ancient temple, no matter what the hall is, it is an era. Italian and Greek "courtyards", a six thousandth collection of authentic artifacts of Ancient Egypt, collected by Russian scientist Vladimir Golenishchev during travels and excavations. The famous treasure of Troy, discovered by Heinrich Schliemann, is also kept in Pushkinskoye. As a child, the German archaeologist read Homer's Iliad and subsequently found the city covered with legends. But it will not be possible to get a complete picture of the Pushkinsky collection. Indeed, out of 670,000 exhibits, no more than 2% are exhibited.