Happy tourist who came to the capital. What art museums are there in Moscow! Legs are not enough to run around them. In this article, we will briefly describe the capital's museums.
Moscow art museums: list
We will try to give the most complete information on this issue. Names of art museums in Moscow:
- Diamond Fund.
- Armoury.
- The Pushkin State Art Museum in Moscow is located on the street. Volkhonka, 12.
- The art of the peoples of the East. Nikitsky Boulevard, 12 A, metro station Arbatskaya.
- The State Tretyakov Gallery. Address: Lavrushinsky pereulok, 10, Novokuznetskaya metro station.
- Historical Museum.
- Zurab Tsereteli presents his works at the art gallery on Prechistenka, 19, Kropotkinskaya metro station.
- Regina Gallery.
- National Center for Contemporary Art.
- V. M. Vasnetsov's house-museum.
- B. A. Tropinin. Per. Shchetininsky, 10, building 1 Metro station Dobryninskaya, Oktyabrskaya.
- Ilya Glazunov (art gallery).
- Moscow House of Photography.
- Museum. Andrey Rublev(Old Russian culture).
- Museum of the Chambers in Zaryadye.
- Architecture Museum.
- Museum of Russian Fairy Tales.
- Museum of Russian Lubok and Naive Art.
- Museon.
- Central House of Artists.
- Burganov's House.
- Modern Museum of Calligraphy.
- Center-Museum of Nicholas Roerich. Per. Maly Znamensky, 3/5.
In addition, there are museums dedicated to our outstanding writers, poets, musicians: A. S. Pushkin, M. A. Bulgakov, Marina Tsvetaeva, M. Yu. Lermontov, A. P. Chekhov, N. V. Gogol, S. Yesenin, A. N. Skryabin, F. M. Dostoevsky, V. V. Mayakovsky, L. N. Tolstoy and others.
In addition, there are still museums-estates. To name just three: Ostankino, Kuskovo and Arkhangelskoye.
Of course, not every art museum is included in this list. Moscow in this regard is very diverse and has the most interesting treasures. If you visit one museum a day every day, then in order to see them, you need to take a vacation of about a year and a half. In addition, if we are talking about a pensioner with a child, then the budget may not be enough, although the cost of visiting is not too high.
The largest collection of Russian art
Tretyakovka is the name of the world's largest museum of Russian painting. Everyone who appreciates our history and the poetry of every corner of the country strives to get here. The artists displayed their inner world on canvases, collected by Pavel Sergeevich Tretyakov with love and understanding.
P. S. Tretyakov with his brother,also a collector and philanthropist, grew up in the family of a merchant of the third guild. He received an education at home, which allowed him only to engage in commercial affairs. But his innate taste, as well as the desire to benefit society, led him to collect paintings by masters of Russian painting. His selection was impeccable. Buying a painting already meant that we had an artist of the highest class, and the craftsmanship of the work was extremely high.
How the museum was created
The residential building of Pavel Mikhailovich stood in Zamoskvorechye. There he placed his first acquisitions, made in 1856. The collection quickly grew and turned into an art museum. Moscow and Muscovites had no idea yet what scope this undertaking would acquire. In 1874, a two-story building was built. It connected with the house of Pavel Mikhailovich. Anyone could visit it through a separate entrance.
This building was constantly being completed. In the end, it surrounded the house on three sides. This is how the art museum was formed. Moscow received it as a gift in 1892.
XX century
After the death of the founder, the entire complex of buildings in Lavrushinsky Lane, according to the sketch of V. M. Vasnetsov, was united by one common facade. This is how the whole world knows him. Years passed, trustees and directors changed, the exposition grew. Too much was stored in storerooms. In 1985, it was decided that the State Art Gallery would be merged with the Tretyakov Gallery.
The second modern building that the Tretyakov Gallery has(address: Krymsky Val, 10), shows visitors the art of the 20th century. Soviet realism is represented by well-known names and magnificent works.
Museum of Western European Painting and Sculpture
The Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin Museum changed its name and, consequently, the essence of the collected collection several times during its existence. The name "Museum of Fine Arts" has always been at the core, and only in 1937 did Moscow call this art museum the Museum of Fine Arts.
Creation
In 1893, I. V. Tsvetaev expressed the idea, which had long been hovering in circles related to art, that it was necessary to build an art and educational museum. His initiative was taken up, and a young architect, R. I. Klein, was chosen on the basis of a competition. The model was an antique temple with a colonnade and glass roofs in the courtyards-atriums.
Without the funds of the patron Yu. S. Nechaev-M altsev, the construction and selection of exhibits would have dragged on for a long time. He took on 2/3 of the costs (more than 2 million rubles). The bookmark took place in 1898, and the grand opening took place in 1912.
Collecting exhibits
In the beginning there were many plaster casts, Hellenic and Roman sculptures and mosaics (copies). The state acquired the collection of the Egyptologist Golenishchev. They were authentic.
After the revolution, new halls are opened, in which exhibits of various museums and private collections are transferred. During the war, bombings damaged the glass ceilings, and the halls stood open for three years.natural elements. After the restoration and opening of the museum in 1946, an active replenishment of its exhibits begins. From the collections of Moscow merchants S. Shchukin and I. Morozov, canvases of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists come. Their work is the pride of the museum.
New buildings
The collection of works is constantly updated, and more and more space is required to accommodate them. In 1985, a department of personal collections was opened in a separate restored building at Volkhonka, 10. They are not disbanded, but exhibited in such a way that they reflect the personal preferences of the collector. Now there are more than 7 thousand exhibits of the XV-XX centuries. The most valuable is the collection of I. Zilberstein, consisting of two thousand items.
In 2005, a new building was opened, which made it possible to extract paintings from the second half of the 19th-20th centuries of America and Europe from the storerooms. Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin promotes the connection between times and peoples.
Summary of selected museums mentioned above
The Diamond Fund needs no introduction. This tiny room amazes with the beauty of the gemstones collected here. It is a must to visit. A lasting impression will remain for a long time.
The Armory is interesting for those who are engaged in applied arts. Carriages of all ages and styles, art glass (all types of glasses, goblets with gold or carved monograms), silver and gold items and robes of roy alty - a hugethe room (9 halls) accommodates more than four thousand exhibits.
The East is represented by exhibitions of art from India, Iran, Japan, China. You can spend hours looking at Japanese netsuke, lacquerware, engravings and, of course, edged weapons.
Burganov's House
The exposition includes not only an enclosed space (ancient Greek classics, medieval sculpture, rare engravings), but also an open-air sculpture museum (three sites).
Alas, we are not able to characterize all the museum sites in Moscow. But, having seen at least some of them, the visitor will not be disappointed.
