Museums in the center of Moscow are located close to each other, and everyone can find an interesting topic for themselves, be it a science museum, art gallery or a children's center.
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Many museum institutions are located in Moscow and its center. Going around them all at once is unrealistic, and it is recommended that you make a list of the museums you want to visit. For example, there are many art museums, the most famous are the Tretyakov Gallery, which has 5 branches, and the Pushkin Gallery, whose main building is located on Volkhonka Street, 12.
The best option is to visit different museums: art, technical, historical, memorial and natural sciences. Moscow museums in the city center are represented by many institutions, and it’s worth starting with the main thing.
Main Museum on Red Square
More than two centuries ago, the Museum of the Moscow Kremlin was created, which on its territory houses several museums, including the Armory, the Assumption, Arkhangelsk and Annunciation Cathedrals, the Patriarchal Chambers, and the Architectural Ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.
Museums in the center of Moscow are inextricably linked with the history of the country. This museum is a treasury that stores various relics and material values, such as, for example, the Monomakh hat, the chain of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, the carriage that belonged to Elizaveta Petrovna, and much more.
On the territory of the Museum of the Moscow Kremlin there is a library that stores more than 50 thousand publications, where you can find a collection of laws of the Russian Empire, a foreign fund. However, in order to enter its territory, you must have a special letter from an organization or university.
All information about the work of the museum and the cost of tickets can be found on the website of the Kremlin Museum.
Moscow: Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
In 2012, a museum was opened, which is not in the city center, but not far from it, the Jewish Museum next to the Jewish Community Center. It is located in a former bus depot, built in 1927 on an area of more than 8 thousand square meters. meters.
Everyone can visit this place, because museums in the center of Moscow include not only the Jewish Museum, but also the Center for Tolerance, the Children's Museum, as well as scientific and research centers. All information can be found on the website and read about how the museum was created, who decided that this center should be opened, and what exhibitions are planned.
The Roerich Center Museum in Moscow
In the center of the capital, on the territory of the Lopukhins estate, is one of the most popular art museums - them. Roerich.
The museum center consists of several rooms. So, in the St. Petersburg Hall you can see various materials and artworks of Roerich, when he lived in St. Petersburg, and in the Russian Hall canvases are presented dedicated to Russia, which were created in different periods of life. Interestingly, the museum opens to the audience from the Introductory Hall, where the works of N. G. Volkova are presented, which reflect the stages of the spiritual and cultural evolution of man.
In addition to these three halls, there are seven more that represent a variety of areas, ranging from the Living Ethics Hall and the hall dedicated to Roerich's teachers to the halls that introduce visitors to the life of the artist’s two sons, one of which is an orientalist and a traveler, and the other artist and scientist.
The museum is notable for its versatility, since it not only presents paintings, but also often hosts various scientific conferences that focus on issues of culture and science, organizes exhibitions of contemporary artists and hosts classical music concerts.
Unusual museums
In Moscow, there are more than 400 museums that are located throughout the city: both in the center and beyond. Many of the museums are known not only to Russian tourists, but also to foreign ones. However, there are such unusual museums in the center of Moscow that few have heard of. You will definitely like them if you visit them.
On the New Arbat is the Tape Museum of Mobius, which is an attraction that has no analogues. The museum consists of a maze, which is created from colorful ribbons. If you get there, it seems that you are floating in zero gravity.
The only death museum in Russia, where, it turns out, it’s not at all scary, but even interesting and sometimes fun. A collection of coffins, gloomy drawings, exhibits in the form of ancient vessels and fashionable skeletons from Italy.
Bunker 42, located on Taganka, was built in order to hide the commander in chief. It has everything you need for life on an area of more than 7 thousand square meters. meters. Stocks of food and fuel, a specially created artesian well with drinking water - all this could allow living in the bunker for several months.
All lovers of robots, cars and transformers should go to the Museum of the Rise of Cars, which will be interesting to all boys and men, without exception. Here you can see the character from the "Transformers Universe" - Bumblebee, the representative of the movie "Star Wars" Darth Vader and the hero of the cartoon that millions of people liked - Wall-i.
