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Things to do in Moscow, Central Russia: The Best Art Museums
The political, scientific, historical, architectural and business center of Russia, Moscow displays the country's contrasts at their most extreme. The ancient and modern are juxtaposed side by side in this city of 10 million. Catch a metro from one of the ornate stations to see Red Square, the Kremlin, the nine domes of St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum, the KGB Museum and other symbols of Moscow's great and terrible past, then lighten up and shop Boulevard Ring or people watch in Pushkin Square.
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1. Art Gallery of the European and American Countries of the XIX-XX centuries
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 495 reviews
Reviewed By ginsengNewYork
Located in an unassuming building near Pushkine Museum, these galleries contain some fascinating pieces of art from the great European and American painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries - Monet, Picasso, Degas, Van Gogh, Sisley, Gauguin, Cassatt and many more. It is well laid out, with the galleries spread over three compact floors. The rest of this incredible collection is in St Petersburg in the Hermitage beautiful modern wing.
2. Exhibition Halls of Russian Art Academy
3. Art Center. Moscow
4. Patriarchal Museum of Church Art
5. Museum of Classes in Russia
6. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
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4.5 based on 1,813 reviews
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Russian: Музеи изобразительных искусств им. А.С. Пушкина) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The International musical festival Svyatoslav Richter's December nights has been held in the Pushkin museum since 1981. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts holds one of Russia's largest collections of foreign art from ancient times to the present day. Its modern presentation introduces visitors to the Museum's extensive study collections of toned plaster casts reproducing works of Graeco-Roman art, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The Museum also houses original paintings and sculpture, drawings and examples of decorative and applied art. In the halls on the ground floor original works of art are displayed from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome, together with European paintings ranging in date from the 8th to the 8th centuries. Two halls, known as the Italian and Greek Courtyards, contain casts. The halls on the first floor display for visitors casts of art works from Ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The halls, hung with paintings, exhibit works of art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Known for its outstanding temporary exhibitions, this museum also has an impressive permanent collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art.
Reviewed By SecondHalfTravels - New Mexico, United States
I bought a two-day ticket online, which worked out very well. I was glad I split my visit up into two days, as both branches would’ve been too much for me to take in in one day. The online system is not as user-friendly as the Hermitage’s, unfortunately, and the instructions were a bit confusing. You can buy the ticket up to 30 days in advance (unlike the Hermitage, which gives you 180 days), and you get two-day access to the two buildings of the Pushkin starting on the date you select for your ticket. You must print the voucher. Both Pushkin museum buildings open at 11 am (Note: wish they opened a bit earlier, at 10, as it’s a bit of a late start to the day!). At 11 am on the first day indicated on my ticket, I went to the Gallery of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art. There was virtually no line to get in, and I exchanged my printed voucher for a two-day ticket. I was expecting the gallery to be larger than it was, more like the General Staff building of the Hermitage, but it wasn’t that big, and I actually got through it in just over an hour. There are some extraordinary paintings, though, in this collection. The next day I went to the main Pushkin building with my two-day ticket. There was already a big line at 11 am, but I walked directly to the front of the queue and was waved in by a friendly security guard after showing my ticket from the day before. The ground floor was fantastic. Highlights for me were the ancient civilizations collection, especially the Egyptian artifacts and the treasures of Troy, and the Dutch masters section, including the Rembrandts. The second floor (first European floor) for me was less interesting. There are a lot of plaster cast replicas of famous Greek and Roman statues. There was also a temporary Venetian art exhibit included in the regular ticket that I wandered through. Currently there is also a popular temporary exhibit of Edo-era Japanese art upstairs requiring a separate ticket that I didn’t visit. I hadn’t bought the ticket online and there was a huge line to buy it, and it was just too much in addition to seeing the permanent collection. I left at 1:30 pm after two and a half hours. By that point on a Sunday, the museum had gotten extremely full, and the queue to get in even longer, so best to go early.
7. Museum of Private Collections
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4.5 based on 48 reviews
Once you've perused the Pushkin Museum, stop in next door to view the treasures in these private collections acquired in Soviet times, including works by Salvador Dali and Henri Matisse, ballet set designs, Russian icons and a whole floor of 20th-century art.
8. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
9. Multimedia Art Museum
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4.5 based on 266 reviews
Past and contemporary masterpieces of some of Russia's most famous photographers are exhibited in the dozen or more rooms of this specialty museum.
