Museums on the Arbat: a list of the most interesting and unusual

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:48

Museums on the Arbat are very different. Here is the Pushkin Museum-Apartment, and the Museum of Corporal Punishment, as well as very unusual exhibitions and labyrinths that form an entire entertainment complex. Walking along this most beautiful street in Moscow, everyone can find something interesting for themselves. Let's take a walk along the Arbat and look into the most unusual places. Let it be only virtual.

Museums on the Old Arbat

We will start our walk from the museum-apartment of Pushkin. This two-story blue building stands out from its neighbors. The famous poet brought his young wife Natalya Nikolaevna here after the wedding. Here the newlyweds lived the first happy months together. They gave balls and gathered friends and acquaintances under their roof until they had to move in 1831. The museum at 53 Arbat Street opened on the day of the celebration of the 155th wedding anniversary of the Pushkins.

Another interesting exhibition is located at 17 Arbat Street. This is a museumaquaristics. All other museums on the Arbat will not be able to compare with this in terms of the number of living exhibits - fish, turtles, and other unusual and bright creatures. The exhibition is located on two levels. The idea of the creators is that going down to the floor below, the visitor enters the underwater world. In addition to aquariums with their inhabitants, here you can also see the equipment of divers from different eras and learn more about the history of aquarism.

The Museum of the History of Corporal Punishment, by the way, belongs to the same owner as the Aquarium Museum. And his exposition is composed just as professionally, with skill. The exhibits are torture devices and instruments for carrying out executions, executioner's tools, as well as portraits of representatives of the mournful profession. This exhibition is impressive and frightening at the same time, but this is not its purpose. She simply opens another page of human history before the audience, even if it remains unsightly and very sad.

Museums on Novy Arbat

Walk along this street will start with an exhibition of erotic art. It is located at Novy Arbat, 15. Together with several other interesting exhibitions, this one forms a real entertainment complex. Of course, coming here, as in other museums on the Arbat, with children will not work, because there is an 18+ restriction for visitors. The exhibits of the exhibition are various objects of erotic art brought from different countries, but many of them are filled with national Russian flavor. The museum contains paintings, photographs, figurines. Near -entrance to the only sex shop in Russia that works like a supermarket. This means that you will not meet a consultant here, so no one will embarrass the buyer.

Next to the Museum of Love, at the same address, is the Museum of Death. Its exhibits are also brought from different countries. For example, here you can admire the collection of skulls and burial urns. The museum also contains a large number of unusual coffins of various shapes. There is a coffin bottle, a coffin beetle, the last resting places in the form of a syringe, a cigarette, a wad of money and a TV remote control. The notorious coffin on wheels from a children's horror story, even if it existed in reality, could hardly impress after what he saw in this museum.

The museum of the USSR is also interesting. Here are the brightest objects of the Soviet era, such that surrounded almost every inhabitant of the country in everyday life. These are phones, and carpets, and dishes, and children's toys. It also features Soviet slot machines and famous soda machines. In addition, in the museum you can take pictures with the leaders - Lenin and Stalin.

Other exhibitions and places of interest

What other museums can you visit on the Arbat? If you still decide to walk here in reality, be sure to check out the following exhibitions:

• Marina Tsvetaeva's house-museum;
• Scriabin Museum;
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art;
• giant's house;
• museum of optical illusions;
• Moscow Perfume Museum.

Conclusion

Museums are the we alth of the Arbat. You can talk about them for a long time and a lot, but it's better to visit them and see everything with your own eyes. Take a look at the exposition of the memorial apartment of the Pushkin couple and admire the furniture, room decoration and portraits of a bygone era. Come to the entertainment complex on Novy Arbat and visit the museums of death and erotic art. Museums in Moscow on the Arbat are able to interest their visitors and give them vivid emotions for a long time.