Happy tourist who came to the capital. What art museums are in Moscow! Legs do not have enough to run around them. In this article we will very briefly describe the museums of the capital.
Art Museums in Moscow: List
We will try to give the most complete information on this issue. Names of art museums in Moscow:
- Diamond fund.
- Armouries.
- The Pushkin State Museum of Art in Moscow is located on ul. Volkhonka, d. 12.
- The art of the peoples of the East. Nikitsky Boulevard, 12 A, metro station Arbatskaya.
- State Tretyakov Gallery. Address: Lavrushinsky Lane, 10, metro station "Novokuznetskaya".
- Historical Museum.
- Zurab Tsereteli presents his works in the art gallery on Prechistenka 19, metro Kropotkinskaya.
- Regina Gallery.
- National Center for Contemporary Art.
- The house-museum of V.M. Vasnetsov.
- V.A. Tropinin. Per. Schetininsky, 10, bldg. 1 m. "Dobryninskaya", "October".
- Ilya Glazunov (art gallery).
- Moscow House of Photos.
- Museum them. Andrei Rublev (Old Russian culture).
- Museum "Chambers in Zaryadye".
- Museum of Architecture.
- Museum of Russian fairy tales.
- Museum of Russian Lubok and naive art.
- Museon.
- Central House of Artists.
- Burganov House.
- Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy.
- Center Museum of N. K. Roerich. Per. Maly Znamensky, d. 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. Scriabin, F.M. Dostoevsky, V.V. Mayakovsky, L.N. Tolstoy and others.
In addition, there are also museum-estates. We will name only three: “Ostankino”, “Kuskovo” and “Arkhangelsk”.
Of course, not every art museum was included in this list. Moscow in this regard is very diverse and has the most interesting treasures. If you visit one museum every day, then to inspect 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 painting
Tretyakov Gallery - this is the name of the world's largest museum of Russian painting. Everyone who appreciates our history and poetry of every corner of the country wants to get here. Artists depicted their inner world on canvases, with love and understanding collected by Pavel Sergeyevich Tretyakov.
P. S. Tretyakov, along with his brother, also a collector and philanthropist, grew up in the family of a merchant of the third guild. He received a home education, which allowed only to engage in commercial affairs. But the 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 workmanship is extremely high.
How the museum was created
The apartment building of Pavel Mikhailovich stood in Zamoskvorechye. There he placed his first acquisitions made in 1856. The collection grew rapidly and turned into an art museum. Moscow and Muscovites did not yet realize how widespread this initiative would be. In 1874, a two-story building was built. It connected to the house of Pavel Mikhailovich. Through a separate entrance, anyone could visit it.
This building is constantly being completed. In the end, it surrounded the house on three sides. So 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. That is how the whole world knows him. Years passed, trustees and directors changed, the exposition grew. Too much was stored in storage. In 1985, it was decided that the State Art Gallery would be merged with the Tretyakov Gallery.
The second modern building, which has the Tretyakov Gallery (address: Krymsky Val, d. 10), shows visitors the art of the 20th century. Soviet realism is represented by famous names and magnificent works.
Museum of Western European Painting and Sculpture
The Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin several times during its existence changed its name and, therefore, the essence of the collected collection. It was always based on the name "Museum of Fine Arts", and only in 1937 this art museum was called Moscow the Museum of Fine Arts.
Creature
In 1893, I.V. Tsvetaev expressed an idea that had long been in the circles associated with art, that it was necessary to build an art and educational museum. His initiative was picked up, and on the basis of the competition a young architect R.I. Klein was chosen. An example was an ancient temple with a colonnade and glass roofs in the atrium courtyards.
Without the funds of the philanthropist Yu. S. Nechaev-Maltsev, the construction and selection of exhibits would drag 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
Initially, there were many plaster casts, Hellenic and Roman sculptures and mosaics (copies). The state acquired the collection of the Egyptologist Golenishchev. These were the scripts.
After the revolution, new halls are opened, in which exhibits of various museums and private collections are transferred. During the war, bombing damaged glass ceilings, and for three years the halls were open to the elements. After the restoration and opening of the museum in 1946, active replenishment of its exhibits begins. From the collections of Moscow merchants S. Schukin and I. Morozov, canvases of 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 new areas are required for their placement. In 1985, the personal collections department was opened in a separate restored building on Volkhonka Street 10. They are not disbanded, but displayed so 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 collection of I. Zilbernstein, consisting of two thousand copies.
In 2005, a new building was opened, which made it possible to extract paintings from the second half of the XIX-XX centuries of America and Europe from the storerooms. The Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin promotes the connection of times and peoples.
Brief description of the individual museums mentioned above
The Diamond Fund needs no introduction. This tiny room impresses with the beauty of the precious stones collected here. It should definitely be visited. An indelible impression will remain for a long time.
The Armory is interesting for those who are engaged in applied art. 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 royal persons - a huge room (9 halls) holds more than four thousand exhibits.
The East is represented by art exhibitions from India, Iran, Japan, and China. You can spend hours looking at Japanese netsuke, varnish products, prints and, of course, cold steel.
