State Museum fine arts them. A. S. Pushkin or, as it is more often called, the Pushkin Museum is one of the most significant museums in Moscow, which has collected within its walls a large collection of works foreign art from ancient world to this day.
The Pushkin Museum opened its doors for the first time on May 31, 1912. The inspirer and first director was Moscow University professor Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev. The initial collection was formed from copies of ancient sculptures and mosaics from the University Cabinet fine arts and genuine antiquities purchased from the famous Egyptologist V.S. Golenishcheva. Later, the halls were replenished with paintings transferred from other museums and works of art from private collections donated or confiscated after the revolution. Today, the Pushkin Museum’s collection includes more than 670,000 exhibits, of which only 1.5% are available for inspection.
Under the jurisdiction of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin - a whole museum town located in historical center Moscow near Kropotkinskaya metro station. It includes several buildings, including:
- Main building
- Gallery of art from Europe and America of the 19th-20th centuries.
- Department of Personal Collections
- Museum-apartment of Svyatoslav Richter
- Center aesthetic education"Museion"
- Educational Art Museum named after. I.V. Tsvetaeva
- House of graphics
The main building is an architectural monument with a powerful colonnade and a glass roof, built 100 years ago specifically for the museum.
The exhibition here is located on two floors. The first one contains genuine rarities Ancient Egypt, ancient times, golden treasures of Ancient Troy from the excavations of archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, paintings European masters of the 8th-18th centuries, there are Greek and Italian courtyards - large spaces with cast sculptures. On the second floor many rooms are devoted to copies of art objects Ancient Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In addition, original paintings by European artists are exhibited here.
The Egyptian Hall is one of the world's best collections of authentic objects from the times of Ancient Egypt: mummies, sarcophagi, masks, figurines, jewelry and vessels.
Wooden sarcophagus of the nobleman Mahu, holder of a plot of land of the Temple of Amun:
Amenhotep and Rannai - priest and priestess of the god Amun:
Sarcophagus and mummy of Khor-Kha. In the foreground is a mummy of a cat:
The next room is dedicated to the art of the Ancient Near East.
Figurine of an adorant from Northern Mesopotamia. An adorant is a figurine made of stone or clay that was placed in a temple so that it would pray for the person who placed it.
Halls of ancient art with a collection of Greek vases and amphorae, mosaics, sculptures and reliefs of Ancient Italy, Cyprus and Rome.
Antefix – ceramic tile with the Gorgon Medusa mask:
Items from the excavations of Panticapaeum - the capital of the Chimerian Bosporus:
The theme of antiquity continues in the Greek courtyard – big hall, filled with casts of famous ancient Greek statues, reliefs and architectural fragments.
Sleeping Ariadne. The marble original is kept in the Vatican.
Another courtyard is Italian, with casts of Renaissance masterpieces.
The equestrian statue is a copy of the bronze monument to the commander-in-chief Bartolomeo Colleoni from Venice.
Michelangelo's famous David. The height of the sculpture is 5.5 meters.
One of the main pearls of the Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin - a collection of works by Rembrandt and artists of his school is located in room No. 10.
Rembrandt "Portrait of an Old Lady" and "Portrait of an Elderly Woman".
An exhibition of paintings by Flemish painters of the 17th century - Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck, Bruegel.
Anthony Van Dyck "Portrait of Adrian Stevens". Flemish master of the early 17th century "Portrait of a Lady with a Fan".
“Ice Skating” by Hendrik Averkamp from the audience Dutch art 17th century.
Also on the ground floor, the permanent exhibition presents art from Byzantium, Italy from the 13th to 16th centuries, and Germany and the Netherlands from the 15th to 16th centuries.
Let's go up to the second floor.
The hall, called "Olympic", with casts from classical ancient Greek sculptures.
A copy of the sculpture “Lamentation of Christ” from the hall of Michelangelo Buonarotti. “Great fame and glory,” according to his contemporary, the great master acquired for himself with this work.
Italian sculpture from the 15th century. The decoration of the hall uses decorative elements in the style of the Early Renaissance.
Magnificent Tombstone of the Cardinal of Portugal by Rosselino Antonio. The original is in Florence in the church of San Miniato al Monte.
European art of the Middle Ages.
Cultural heritage of Ancient Italy and Ancient Rome in casts. The masterpieces of this room are the Capitoline She-Wolf, the bust of Marcus Aurelius, and the sculpture “Victoria.”
Greek art of the late classics and Hellenism. The colossal group "Farnese Bull" - the original is kept in the Archaeological Museum of Naples.
Winged Nike of Samothrace and Aphrodite of Knidos famous sculptor Praxiteles.
Of course, it’s difficult to show all the halls and works - there are a lot of them, there’s a lot to see Pushkin Museum you can spend more than one hour on fine arts.
Photography is free, but there are a few rules: you cannot use a tripod or flash, and you are prohibited from taking photographs at temporary exhibitions.
On special days significant exhibitions when they bring masterpieces from collections best museums world, queues are forming at the cash register.
Art Conversations on 29 topics are held on Tuesday and Friday afternoons and Thursday evenings in the Main Building, Gallery and Personal Collections Department.
Since 1980 in the museum. Pushkin passes annual festival music “December Evenings of Svyatoslav Richter”, concerts are held in the halls throughout the year.
There are sightseeing and thematic tours of the permanent exhibition; you can take an audio guide, its cost is 250 rubles.
More detailed information see on the official website of the Pushkin Museum: arts-museum.ru
How to get to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
On public transport: metro station Kropotkinskaya, then 2 minutes on foot.
Address: Volkhonka street, building 12.
Opening hours
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday - from 11-00 to 20-00
- Thursday, Friday - from 11-00 to 21-00
Monday - closed
Ticket prices for the Main Building
- Adults – 400 rubles
- Preferential categories – 200 rubles
- Children under 16 years old – free
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Using the exhibitions of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin, you can easily study the entire history of world art, from ancient times to modern times. IN exhibition halls The museum has a rich collection of originals and copies of ancient mummies, antique statues, paintings by Rubens and Picasso, life-size equestrian statues of ancient weapons and much, much more.
The Pushkin Museum of Art is also a popular venue for temporary exhibitions, both Russian and foreign. In 2012, the museum turned 100 years old, and on this occasion it was thoroughly restored, so that it now hosts a wide variety of cultural events on its territory even more actively than before.
Exposition
- Second largest exposition of foreign art in Russia, including ancient monuments, paintings Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Picasso.
- A unique collection of plaster casts with main sculptural monuments from antiquity to the Renaissance.
- The largest exhibition venue, periodically offering world-class exhibitions.
- Music festival « December evenings by Svyatoslav Richter” takes place in the museum, combining musical concerts with the theme art exhibitions.
- IN in the vicinity of the museum you can stroll along the neighboring streets and admire architectural masterpieces in the Russian Art Nouveau style, and visit other museums.
- All important information translated into English, There are audio guides, it is possible to go on a guided tour.
State Museum of Fine Arts named after. A.S. Pushkin is one of most interesting places capitals. Here you can see the first largest collection of foreign art in Moscow and the second largest in Russia (after the Hermitage). However, the Pushkin Museum is not only a collection of monuments of Ancient Egypt or a place where you can see original paintings by classics Rembrandt, Poussin, Canaletto and famous impressionists and post-impressionists Claude Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Picasso. The peculiarity of this museum is that it presents life-size plaster casts from all the major sculptural monuments of antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Thus, the museum makes it possible to immediately get a visual representation of sculptural masterpieces, the originals of which are scattered throughout the galleries different countries. The pearl of this area of the museum is the Italian courtyard - an exact copy of the courtyard of the Florentine Bargello palace. In addition, the Pushkin Museum is one of the most active venues in the city, hosting world-class temporary exhibitions. Recent events include, for example, solo exhibitions of Picasso, Turner, Caravaggio, Titian and Raphael.
Let's list the sections 
expositions of the Main building of the museum: Art of Ancient Egypt; Art of the Middle East (originals and replicas); Ancient Troy and the excavations of G. Schliemann (“Priam’s treasure”); Ancient art (originals and replicas); Byzantine art; Art of the Middle Ages (copy casts); Renaissance art (copy casts); Art of Germany and the Netherlands from the 15th to 16th centuries; art of Flanders and Holland of the 17th century; XVII - XVIII centuries; art France XVII‒ beginning of the 19th century.
The museum hosts excursions, lectures, and master classes. Has a long tradition music festival“December Evenings of Svyatoslav Richter”, invented in 1981 by the pianist together with long-time museum director Irina Antonova. The festival combines the themes of art exhibitions with music concerts. The branches of the Pushkin Museum are located nearby and the Department of Personal Collections.
The Pushkin Museum is located in the very heart of Moscow, between the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. In the area of Volkhonki Street, the historical buildings of the 19th century are well preserved. Two famous Moscow streets diverge from here - Ostozhenka and Prechistenka, where many architectural masterpieces in the Russian Art Nouveau style have been preserved. The area is also home to numerous art and literary museums.
History of the museum
The history of the creation of the museum is closely connected with personality (1847 - 1913). He was a prominent historian, philologist and art critic, a professor at Moscow University, and had the high rank of Privy Councilor. Initially, Tsvetaev collected casts for the university Cabinet of Fine Arts and Antiquities. This project later grew into a plan to organize an educational museum for students studying architecture and sculpture.
In 1896, the terms of the Competition for the development of a project for the museum building were published. As a result, R. Klein's project was approved. Work on the construction of the building was carried out with the help of famous engineers I. Rerberg and V. Shukhov. Initially, the museum did not have electric lighting: the light had to enter the halls through the ceiling. The shape of the building resembles an ancient temple on a podium with a colonnade. The Ionic colonnade of the museum building has a prototype - the famous portico of the caryatids of the Erechtheion in Athens. The frieze behind the colonnade of the facade is a copy of the Parthenon frieze, and on the attic there is a relief carved with the image Olympic Games. The interiors of the halls are decorated in accordance with the themes of the sections. One of the brightest and most memorable examples of this solution is the Egyptian hall, the design of which uses the shapes of Egyptian columns, and the paintings reflect the motifs of ancient Egyptian painting.
In 1898, a special “Museum Organization Committee” was created to organize the museum. Its chairman became Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich. Almost 80% of the budget was contributed by Yu. Nechaev-Maltsov, a major philanthropist and diplomat. In 1912 it took place grand opening Museum of Fine Arts named after Alexandra III. The ceremony was attended by Emperor Nicholas II and Maria Feodorovna (widow of Emperor Alexander III).
IN Soviet era The museum's collections expanded significantly, including through the nationalization of private collections, and the museum was removed from the private jurisdiction of Moscow University. On the anniversary of the centenary of the death of the great Russian poet (1937), the museum was given the name. A specific episode in the history of the museum occurred in 1949 - 1953, when the main part of the halls was dedicated to an exhibition of gifts. Almost immediately after the death of the leader, the familiar permanent exhibition was restored and opened.
For the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum in 2012, work began on creating the so-called “Museum Town”: a complex of buildings to expand the exhibition area and general functionality. The project is planned to be completed by 2019. The Main Building and Gallery are currently operating as normal, with the Personal Collections Department holding only temporary exhibitions until work is completed.
Museum collection
The collection of the Pushkin Museum includes over 670 thousand exhibits, and the exhibition area of the museum is 2600 square meters. The museum consists of several buildings. The Main Building (Volkhonka St., 12) houses collections of casts and original works of art from ancient times to the 18th century. New art is exhibited in the adjacent building of the Gallery of European Art and America XIX– XX centuries (Volkhonka st., 14). On the opposite side of the Main Building there is the Department of Personal Collections (Volkhonka St., 10) and the Museyon (Kolymazhny Lane, 6, bldg. 2) - a unique museum, the exhibition in which is not classified according to the usual chronological order, but according to the collections in which the works ended up in the museum. Special attention is paid here to the personalities of collectors.
The Center for Aesthetic Education "Museion" was opened in 2006, classes are held here in children's groups, there is a Club of Young Art Critics, and exhibitions of Museyon students are held.
As already mentioned, the first stage in the development of the museum was a collection of casts from masterpieces of sculpture, which would help students in their studies. To make plaster copies, molds made from the original monuments were used. They match them actual size, which is very difficult to determine from photographs. Then, individual collections of original works of art began to be received into the museum's funds from benefactors or acquired. One of the first was the collection of V. Golenishchev. This outstanding orientalist collected an excellent collection of monuments of Ancient Egypt, which was acquired by the state and transferred to the museum in 1909 - 1911. The exhibits there date back to the 4th millennium BC. until the 4th century BC Among them are real archaeological artifacts, for example, a bust of Pharaoh Amenemhat III, created in the 19th century BC, and a cosmetic spoon from the New Kingdom era.
Another early arrival is the collection Italian painting XIII - XIV centuries, donated by diplomat M. Shchekin. After
A year and a half ago, all the impressionists and works of the 20th century were removed from the Pushkin Museum. Now they live in a separate building on the left (formerly the Museum of Personal Collections, now the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th–20th centuries). As a result, a lot of space was freed up on the upper floors of the main building - they decided to update the exhibition. All the keepers had something to take out from under the covers - and, of course, everyone wanted it. Although only two collections could increase significantly - the Dutch one, due to the endless and infinitely prolific little Dutchmen (the great ones have been on display for a long time), and the Italian one, where there is something to add to each century (although names not previously presented are mostly familiar only to art historians, and Italianists at that) . As a result, both were added, but in different proportions. But first things first.
Of course, you can’t change the exposure overnight; the process is long. The halls were closed one by one, repaired and replaced, paintings were restored and taken out of storage. They carried the French upstairs and gathered Rembrandt and his school in one hall. To regular visitors of the museum this is unlikely to seem like an amazing metamorphosis - well, the walls were painted, the labels were changed, new shields were made. But if you remember how everything looked last year, it turns out that everything is the same, but not the same. On the ground floor, only the Greek and Italian courtyards remained unchanged (in the first there was a project for the reconstruction of the museum, and in the second there was a Christmas tree, but this is probably not forever). Everything else was mixed up. The left enfilade is now completely occupied by antiquities and antiquity, which have replaced Italian icons and Early Renaissance. True, the way there still lies through the Fayum portraits, and the “Treasures of Troy,” now included in the permanent exhibition, have long been in the museum under the guise of an exhibition. In the center there is now an entrance to the Italian halls, in the vestibule of which works of Byzantium are displayed. In the hall with Italian Renaissance Cranach and the early Germans are no longer shown. Then, passing the Italian courtyard and passing through the French portico, you find yourself in the northern school (the French used to be here): Cranach, brought from Italy, now has his own separate nook. Further along the enfilade follow separate Flemish and Dutch rooms with corners of Rubens and Rembrandt. Pieter de Hooch appeared in Holland, whose existence no one except the guardians had any idea about. On the second floor, most of the halls are still occupied by copies and casts (unfortunately, they were not touched). But Italians settled in the left wing - academicians, mannerists and Venetian school. A new wonderful Tiepolo, Magnasco and several Veronese (with a school) appeared. The right wing, as mentioned above, was given to the French, who enriched themselves with Lebrun and Lorrain. Overall, the exposure has increased by a third, which is nice. Now Pushkinsky gives me the feeling, like after the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, - as if the history of art consists mainly of antiquity and the mass of Italians, and everything else was just that, little things.
The most amazing thing is that all this beauty will not last long: the museum will soon be closed altogether. By the centennial anniversary (that is, by 2012), Pushkinsky should be reconstructed. The reconstruction project is being carried out by Norman Foster; according to preliminary plans, a huge underground museum quarter will appear on Volkhonka. The ending of this story is unpredictable: until the project passes all approvals, the underground museum can turn into a thirty-story one shopping mall- but we hope this will not happen with Pushkinsky. In the meantime, one unnoticeable reform has already been carried out in the museum’s halls. The fact is that in our museums the principle of inspection is compulsory - thanks to the enfilade system of halls. That is, the visitor cannot see only Rembrandt or only small Dutchmen - to get to them, willy-nilly he has to pass through many different styles, names and eras. Earlier to get into the halls ancient Assyria, it was necessary to go through Italian icons, and the entrance to Italy of the 17th–18th centuries lay through the French hall. Now you can separately go to the halls of antiquity or early Italy, or Holland, or late France. Although, to be honest, the museum is so small that if you look at the entire exhibition in one sitting, even enlarged by a third, you will never get tired.
Main building
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 11:00 to 20:00
- Thursday and Friday from 11:00 to 21:00
- Monday – closed
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 20:00
- Thursday and Friday – from 11:00 to 21:00
- Monday – closed
- Box office closes an hour earlier
Museum of Personal Collections (temporary exhibitions)
- The main exhibition is closed until 2023.
Ticket prices for the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in 2019.
Main building
- For adults - 400 rubles
Gallery of Art of Europe and America of the 19th-20th centuries
- For adults - 400 rubles
- For students of the Russian Federation and pensioners of the Russian Federation - 200 rubles
- For children under 16 years old - free
How to get to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Address: Moscow, Volkhonka st., 12.
The nearest metro station is Kropotkinskaya. The museum is located on the opposite side of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The museum includes three buildings: the main building, the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th-20th centuries. and the building of the museum of personal collections. Since the first place on the way from the metro is the Gallery, the sign of which also says that this is the Pushkin Museum, you don’t have to get to the main building and walk around the Gallery. Sometimes there is a queue at the ticket office of the Main building, which can become a landmark for the entrance to the Museum.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is located in the very center, close to other