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Time: 10:00-19:00, on Thursdays from 100 to 21. Closed on Monday.
Cost: 400 rubles, discount ticket - 200 rubles. Free - children under 16 years of age, students of faculties specializing in the field of fine arts, architecture and cinematography, universities and colleges of the Russian Federation, disabled people of groups 1 and 2 (citizens of the Russian Federation and the CIS), visitors in wheelchairs, persons accompanying disabled people of groups 1 and 2 , disabled children.
Free tickets: every Tuesday and the first Sunday of every month - members of large families (benefits are provided to parents and children under 18 years of age or children under 23 years of age if they are full-time students), every Wednesday and second Sunday of every month - persons studying basic professional educational programs (citizens of the Russian Federation), persons under 18 years of age.
Please note that the Pushkin Museum named after. A.S. Pushkin is not included in the list of museums available for free admission on the third Sunday of every month.
Address:
Pushkin Museum - Moscow, st. Volkhonka 12
Metro station:
Kropotkinskaya
The Pushkin Museum (official name is the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts) is one of the world's largest collections of painting, sculpture, graphics and rare archaeological artifacts. The collections of the Pushkin Museum are considered an invaluable cultural, historical and artistic property.
In the funds of the Pushkin Museum named after. More than 700 thousand exhibits are stored in Pushkin, only 1.5% of the total collection is exhibited in the halls. The museum complex includes several buildings in the center of the capital: the Main Building, the S. Richter Apartment Museum, the Department of Personal Collections and the Muzeon Center.
Most of the exhibitions are housed in the Main Building, built by architects R. Klein and I. Rerberg at the beginning of the 19th century. The huge house with a majestic colonnade and glass roof is included in the list of architectural monuments of federal significance.
The origins of the Pushkin Museum were the famous Russian archaeologist, scientist and teacher I.V. Tsvetaev. In 1893, he approached the capital authorities with a proposal to create a public museum based on the collection of the Cabinet of Antiquities of Moscow University. Tsvetaev proposed creating exhibitions that reflect the key stages in the development of art from ancient times to the present. The museum opened in May 1912, Ivan Vladimirovich became its first director.
The collections were based on exact copies of ancient statues and real artifacts purchased by the institution’s management from the Egyptologist V. Golenishchev. Gradually, the museum's funds were replenished: many paintings were donated by benefactors, purchased at auctions, and came from other collections. After the revolution, the repository was replenished with valuables confiscated from members of the aristocracy.
Today The Pushkin Museum is a world-class cultural center that hosts scientific lectures, debates, exhibitions, concerts of classical and organ music, presentations, creative meetings, film shows, etc.
The museum carries out enormous scientific work, equips archaeological expeditions, cooperates with specialized educational institutions, and educates children.
Permanent exhibitions
Painting
All exhibitions in the “Painting” hall are distributed according to the dates of creation of a particular painting, as well as in relation to the art school or movement. The earliest exhibits date back to the Byzantine period of European art. These are mainly works of icon painting.
Early Western European painting is represented by a unique collection of Italian artists belonging to the so-called “primitive” movement.
In 1948, the Pushkin Museum received the collection of the disbanded Museum of New Western Art, including paintings by outstanding French painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.
In the “Painting” hall, visitors will see original paintings by P. Gauguin, M. Pepain, O. Vernet, P. Elle, D. Pittoni, G. Kraus, L. Giordano, V. Verschure, J. de Troyes and many others.
Among the masterpieces stored in the Pushkin Museum: “The Lady at the Window” by A. Toulouse-Lautrec, “Hercules and Omphale” by F. Boucher, “Red Vineyards in Arles” and “Prisoners’ Walk” by Vincent van Gogh, “Boulevard des Capucines in Paris” and “Luncheon on the Grass” by Claude Monet, “Pierrot and Harlequin” by Paul Cezanne, etc.
A special place in the exhibition is occupied by the collection of paintings by Pablo Picasso: these are eleven canvases, including the famous painting “Girl on a Ball”, which became the artist’s calling card.
Graphic arts
The Pushkin Museum houses one of the world's richest collections of graphics, which includes 20 thousand engravings that belonged to Tsar Alexander II, Japanese engravings from the personal collection of S. Kitaev, works by Rembrandt from the collection of N. Mosolov, Russian engravings that belonged to D. Rovinsky and etc.
The museum stores more than 380 thousand engravings and drawings. The exhibition presents the most famous works of great masters: Rubens, Matisse, Picasso, Durer, Callot, Renoir and many others.
The pride of the museum is the collection of graphics by Salvador Dali from the series “Faust”, “Hippie”, “Surreal Tauromachy”, “Mythology”.
Sculpture
The sculpture collection of the Pushkin Museum includes works by outstanding masters of Western Europe - Claudion, Rodin, Lemoine, Maillol, Bourdelle; wooden statues from the 16th century; samples of ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek and Roman sculpture; sculptures by contemporary domestic and foreign authors.
The permanent exhibition includes two courtyards - Greek and Italian. These are spacious halls that house exact casts of the most famous statues of Ancient Hellas and the Roman Empire. The Greek courtyard is similar to the Athenian acropolis; there are life-size models of the Parthenon columns, copies of the famous sculptures of Phidias - “Athena Parthenos”, “Zeus”, “Wounded Amazon”, “Nike”, etc.
The Italian courtyard is an exact copy of one of the tiers of the Florentine Bargello palace; it attracts attention with equestrian statues - a copy of the Gattamelata monument by Donatello and a sculpture of the condottiere Colleoni by Verrocchiu. Here you can also see an exact cast of the Freiberg portal, a copy of the shrine of St. Sebald, bronze statues of medieval knights.
At the entrance to the Italian courtyard, visitors are greeted by the most famous cast of the museum, its calling card - an exact copy of the statue of David by Michelangelo.
From the Italian and Greek courtyards, visitors enter the hall of Ancient Egypt. Archaeological rarities, original sculptures and sarcophagi are presented here. The collection of the Pushkin Museum is considered the best collection of ancient Egyptian art in Russia. Visitors will see the sarcophagus and mummy of the priest Hor-Ha, the gilded sarcophagus of Mahu, statues of Amenhotep and his wife Queen Rannai, a relief of the Isi treasury and other priceless relics of world culture.
A particularly valuable exhibit is the statue of Pharaoh Amenemhet III of the Middle Kingdom era (1853 BC). Countless books and monographs are devoted to this unique work of art; scientists and tourists from all over the world come to see the statue.
The hall of art of the Ancient East houses the famous “Gold of Troy” - artifacts found by Heinrich Schliemann in the city of Troy, which was long considered an invention of Homer. These are gold jewelry, dishes, helmets, figurines.
The Antique Hall houses authentic works of ancient Greek and Roman art: bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, vases, busts, paintings, books and much more.
Video:
Another short video that was filmed for the New Year in the interiors of the Pushkin Museum:
State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Pushkin Museum) is one of the largest museums in Russia, which presents works of European and world art. Its building, built in an eclectic style, is also an architectural monument. The Pushkin Museum's collection includes about 670 thousand exhibits. These are objects of painting, sculpture, and graphics. In addition, archaeological and numismatic monuments are presented here.
Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin - from history
In 1893, Moscow State University professor, doctor of Roman literature and historian Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev conceived the idea of creating a museum as a textbook on art history - with copies of ancient antique vases, sculptures and other objects. In 1898, its foundation ceremony took place. A significant portion of the money for the construction was contributed by philanthropist Yuri Stepanovich Nechaev-Maltsev. The design competition was won by the self-taught architect P.S. Fighters. The construction was supervised by architect R.I. Klein. Architects I.I. took part in the construction. Rerberg and V.G. Shukhov, as well as many talented masters of that time. The internal layout and plan of the building were created in accordance with the ideas of P.S. Boytsova. And the interiors and facades are the work of R.I. Klein and his assistants.
On May 31, 1912, the Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III was opened. Its first director in 1912-1913 was its founder Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev. In 1932, the museum was renamed the State Museum of Fine Arts, and in 1937 it was named after A.S. Pushkin. During the Great Patriotic War, the exhibits themselves were evacuated to Novosibirsk and Solikamsk. The building, including its glass roofs, was damaged by bombing. After the war, in October 1946, when the building was restored, the opening of the exhibition took place. Since 1980, on the initiative of Svyatoslav Richter and the director of the Pushkin Museum I.A. Antonova hosts the annual music and painting festival “December Evenings”.
In 1985, the Museum of Personal Collections was founded as the scientific department of the Pushkin Museum, designed to preserve the “spiritual connection” between the collection and its former owner. The Pushkin Museum's exhibits are currently being digitized. Passports are created for all exhibits, which are necessary for registration, storage and restoration. The high quality of the electronic copy allows you to record and control the condition of the exhibit, the location and depth of microcracks. In case of restoration it will be possible to restore the item.
Pushkin Museum - exhibits
The collection of the Pushkin Museum contains works by Western masters from antiquity to the 20th century. Each of the halls is dedicated to a specific era. The entire collection contains about 670 thousand works of exhibits, but only 1.5% of the funds are available to the general public. The ground floor mainly houses antiquities. The Egyptian Hall is located here. Also presented are objects of ancient peoples who inhabited Western Asia and the Mediterranean, the Indian Peninsula and Latin America. One of the most unique exhibits is a unique treasure discovered by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann during his excavations in Troy in 1871–1890. This treasure was considered lost during World War II. It later turned out that, along with other trophies, it was taken from Germany to the Soviet Union and was kept in the strictest secrecy in the storerooms of the Pushkin Museum.
The halls on the second floor display more than a thousand exhibits from ancient Greece and Rome. These are antique amphorae and ceramics, sculpture. Here are copies of the most famous sculptures of antiquity. Visitors will see items from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Works by 19th and 20th century masters are on display, as well as a large collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, including works by famous artists such as Matisse and Picasso, Gauguin and Van Gogh. The collection of Byzantine icons occupies a special place. You can see works by European masters such as Cranach, Botticelli, Poussin and David. The pearls of the collection are the icons “Madonna and Child Enthroned” and “Madonna and Child and Two Donors”. Many of the items ended up in the Moscow State Institute of Fine Arts after the Great Patriotic War, including those from the Dresden Gallery. The Northern Renaissance is presented in the hall entitled "Art of Germany and the Netherlands of the 15th-16th centuries." Works by Rembrandt and his students are displayed in the hotel exhibition. Dutch school of the 17th century. The “Italian Courtyard” and “Greek Courtyard” halls are especially popular. The "Greek Courtyard" has a three-level floor that conveys the architecture of the Acropolis of Athens. And the “Italian Courtyard” hall repeats the courtyard of Palazzo Bargelo with a corner staircase and small columns supporting a balcony, a light arcade and a well in the center.
At the Pushkin Museum, many exhibits are not taken out of the storerooms, since there are standards according to which the placement and storage of exhibits is determined. The museum exhibition is constantly changing, since all exhibits cannot be displayed to visitors at the same time. There are also exhibitions of masterpieces from the world's largest art galleries.
Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin - information for tourists
The divisions of the Pushkin Museum are the Educational Art Museum named after I.V. Tsvetaeva and Memorial Apartment of Svyatoslav Richter. The Museion Center for Aesthetic Education of Children and Youth has been created, which organizes exhibitions and meetings with artists, performances and musical concerts. State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin offers lectures, excursions and study groups. More than 15 different routes have been developed that allow you to view exhibits created by masters of various historical periods. Excursions with a guide in Russian and foreign languages are organized for visitors. For convenience, it is possible to present transport services - cars and buses. Audio guide services are available. Excursions to the Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin can be booked.
Them. Pushkin in Moscow? If you have never been there before, it’s a shame, because... this is one of the most interesting places in the capital! Today, the exhibitions of the Pushkin Museum are on a par with the collections of such titans of world cultural heritage as the Louvre or the Hermitage.
A little history
And it all began in 1898, on August 17. Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin was founded on that distant summer day. It was intended primarily to disseminate and popularize knowledge in the field of art among broad sections of the Russian public, as well as for students studying sculpture. It must be said that the most educated people of that time worked on the museum project. The money for construction (most of it) was donated by the famous Russian philanthropist Yu.S. Nechaev-Maltsev. The design of the building itself was developed by the talented architect R.I. Klein. Before embarking on this important task, Klein spent a long time studying the museums of Egypt and Greece, as well as European experience.
When the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts was being built, engineers Vladimir Shukhov and Ivan Rerberg helped Klein. The first was the author of the original translucent ceilings of the main museum building, and the second was the deputy project manager. For the construction of the complex, Klein was awarded the high title of academician of architecture.
Amazing architectural style
Take a close look at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the photo of which is presented below, and you may notice that it looks very much like an ancient temple (Greek) from antiquity, rising among dense trees. Like ancient religious buildings, the building stands on a high stone podium and is surrounded by majestic Ionic columns.
Reproduces the exact proportions of the columns of the portico on the Greek Acropolis. However, according to the architectural style of the Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin is close to classicism. But that's only on the outside. Once inside, visitors find themselves in spacious rooms filled with light, access to which is provided by a glass dome. Such an unusual ceiling already indicates neoclassicism. By the way, when the museum was built, electric lighting was not included in the project at all. It was believed that sculptural compositions are best viewed in natural light.
Collections
An interesting fact is that the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, before the October Revolution that struck Russia in 1917, was exclusively a sculpture museum. Skillfully made copies of ancient mosaics and statues were exhibited here. At that time, the originals were represented only by exhibits from the collections of the Egyptologist Golenishchev.
But after the October Revolution, museum exhibitions were replenished with paintings confiscated from the private collections of the Russian aristocracy and nationalized by the Bolsheviks. So, for example, the famous ones (Picasso Pablo) and (Dutch Van Gogh) came to the Pushkin Museum from the collections of the merchant Morozov.
Today, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts proudly presents its visitors with a rich collection of French impressionism and post-impressionism. Here we can enjoy the paintings of Camille Pizarro, Arnie Matisse, Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Sisley, Edgar Degas, Toulouse Lautrec, as well as the unique Van Gogh and other great painters.
Also in the Pushkin Museum you can look at Italian paintings of the 18th-20th centuries, Japanese and British engravings, copies of masterpieces of ancient art, including the huge sculpture of Michelangelo’s David, and much more. Total Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin contains 700 thousand exhibits, and almost one and a half million people visit it every year.
Events and activities held within the walls of the museum
On Thursdays in the evening and on Fridays during the day, the museum hosts interesting classes called “Conversations about Art” for everyone. Lectures are devoted to all the main sections of the exhibition, as well as various seasonal exhibitions regularly held in this cultural center.
Since 2012, the Pushkin Museum annually takes part in the all-Russian cultural event “Night of Museums”. The exquisite musical “Evenings of Svyatoslav Richter” have also become a tradition - an international music festival held under the arches of the Pushkin Museum every year in December.
Note to tourists
If you are planning to visit the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts for the first time in your life, do not confuse it with another Moscow museum named after the great Russian poet, which is located on Prechistenka. The main building of the Pushkin Museum is located on Volkhonka at number 12.
Tourists need to know that in the Pushkin Museum it is not allowed to smoke, use cellular communications (this is bad manners), touch museum exhibits, take photographs with flash, bring flowers into the halls, or eat outside the cafe area. Bags and large umbrellas should be left in the storage room.
The management of the construction was entrusted to the architect R.I. Klein, who developed the final design of the building. The Moscow State University board organized a long business trip for Klein to European museums, Egypt and Greece. Klein was assisted in the construction by engineers Ivan Rerberg, the first deputy project manager, and Vladimir Shukhov, the author of the museum’s unique translucent ceilings. Dozens of young architects, engineers, and artists went through Klein’s school during the construction of the museum.
The building was completed roughly in 1904. Exhibits (plaster casts and other copies) were ordered from the 1890s from foreign workshops using molds taken directly from the originals; in some cases, copies were made for the first time. On May 31 (June 13), 1912, the museum was opened to the public as the Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III at the Imperial Moscow University.
In 1923, the Museum was removed from subordination to the university. In 1932 it was renamed the State Museum of Fine Arts. In 1937, the Museum was named after Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. In 1991, the Museum was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.
The founder and first director of the Museum in 1911-1913 was Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev (1847-1913), a professor at Moscow University. Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, was the director of the museum from 1961 to July 2013, when she was appointed President of the museum. Currently the director of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin is Marina Devovna Loshak.
Collections of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin are presented in the museum complex of buildings.
The Museum operates the Center for Aesthetic Education of Children and Youth “Museion” (Kolymazhny Lane, 6).
Composition of the Museum's collections
Currently, the total number of monuments stored in the Pushkin Museum is about 670,000 items. These are works of painting, graphic works, sculptures, works of applied art, archaeological monuments, numismatic monuments, photographs, memorial items, items of scientific and auxiliary fund.
In 2011, the Museum’s collection was replenished with a number of significant works of painting, graphics, numismatics, and decorative and applied arts. The total number of entries is 3471 items. Of these, 787 items were purchased, 550 items were accepted as donations, and 2,134 items were accepted by decision of the Expert Fund Purchasing Commission.
The Museum's painting collection was replenished with 8 works; sculptural - one; collection of decorative and applied arts - 28 works; graphic collection - 118 works; collection of the Museum of Personal Collections - 433 works, including paintings, graphics and photographs; the numismatic collection includes 1,790 items; The Museum's collection was also replenished with a complex of archeological objects with a total of 1093 objects.
Foundation of the Pushkin Museum named after. A.S. Pushkin in 2011, a rare monument of early Netherlandish painting (16th century) was donated to the Museum: a double-sided altar door with scenes of “The Last Supper” and “Mass of St. Gregory"; The work stylistically gravitates towards the production of the workshop of the Brussels painter Colijn de Cauter.
Valentina Andrianovna Tsirnyuk donated a set of works to the Museum, among which the sculptural group “Artist and Model” by the Italian master Emilio Fiaschi (1858-1941) should be highlighted. This work is typical of salon art of the second half of the 19th century.
The collection of decorative arts also included a decorative porcelain vase of Etruscan shape with an archery scene in the Green Dog Park near Brussels, created in France in the 1830s. In terms of quality of execution, form and painting, it is very rare for Russian museum and private collections. The vase was purchased by the Museum with funds from the Russian Federation Ministry of Culture.
Another work of decorative and applied art, which entered the Museum's collection in 2011, is a bone relief with a portrait of a woman - the work of the Austrian sculptor and bone carver Norbert Michael Schrödl (1816-1890). He is known primarily as the author of portraits of members of the imperial family and prominent contemporaries, created using the technique of ivory carving. Based on a number of signs, it can be assumed that the image on this item is a portrait of the Empress of Austria and Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (1837-1898). The art of carved bone of the 19th century is represented in the museum collection only by individual examples, and therefore this item occupies an important place in it.
The Museum's graphic collection includes 25 works of German graphics, including works by Lucas Cranach, Urs Graf, Hans Beham, Hans Burgkmeyer and other masters of the era of Albrecht Dürer, which are of undoubted value for the Pushkin Museum's collection.
Of great value is the collection acquired by the Museum, consisting of 721 oriental coins, of which 33 are silver and 688 bronze. The collection was collected in Turkmenistan and includes coins that circulated in the Merv oasis from the 3rd century BC. until the end of the 19th century. It is unique because it includes rare coins from antiquity and the early Middle Ages, as well as examples of little-known issues of Merv mintage. The collection was accepted for temporary storage back in December 2000 and, after much careful work by Russian specialists, finally entered the Museum’s collection.
The museum was opened to the public in 1912 as the Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III at the Imperial Moscow University. At that time, the basis of his collection was the collection of the Cabinet of Fine Arts and Antiquities of Moscow University, which consisted of antique vases, a numismatic collection, casts of ancient sculptures and a special library. At the end of the 19th century, original works of art and culture of Ancient Egypt were purchased specifically for the museum. During the same period, the systematic development of the museum began with the goal of creating a collection that would present the stages of the history of European art from antiquity to modern times.
Now in the Pushkin Museum there are four types of exhibitions. One of them is an exhibition of casts that were made in European workshops specifically for the museum according to molds taken from the originals. These high-quality copies allow you to get acquainted with works of art stored in other famous museums of the world - ancient sculpture, sculpture of Western Asia, the Middle Ages, and the Italian Renaissance.
The next exhibition is original works of art and culture of ancient civilizations. Many of them are finds from archaeological expeditions of the museum. A unique exhibit is kept here - a treasure that was found during excavations in Troy at the end of the 19th century by the German scientist Heinrich Schliemann. It was believed that this treasure was lost during the war. It turns out that it was taken to the Soviet Union from Germany and was kept in the museum's storerooms in strict secrecy.
The art gallery presents paintings by masters of the 8th-20th centuries. There is a collection of Byzantine icons and ancient mosaics, works by Botticelli, David, Poussin, Cranach. Some masterpieces, such as “Madonna and Child with Two Donors” and “Madonna and Child Enthroned,” came to the museum from European galleries after the Great Patriotic War. The works of impressionists and post-impressionists are widely represented: Gauguin, Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse, works of European and American artists and sculptors of the 19th-20th centuries. The exhibition is structured in a certain order: national schools and artistic eras are presented separately. For example, there are such halls as “Art of Germany and the Netherlands of the 15th-16th centuries”, “Dutch school of the 17th century”, “Italian courtyard”, “Greek courtyard”. In addition to the masterpieces they contain, these halls attract with their architecture, repeating elements of the Acropolis of Athens and the Palazzo Bargello.
And finally... The integrity of private collections of works of art that somehow ended up in the museum is preserved here.
In total, the museum’s collection contains more than 670 thousand works of art. Of these, only 1.5% are presented to the general public. The museum exhibition is constantly changing, but many exhibits are never removed from storage due to certain requirements for their content.
Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin in 1991 it was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.