Moscow museums · Military history
Military history · since 1962
The Borodino Panorama
Borodino Panorama Museum
original name: Музей-панорама «Бородинская битва»
Roubaud’s panorama is one of the few survivors of a genre that was the summit of 19th-century visual culture and has almost entirely vanished. The value lies in the machinery of the spectacle, not in the subject: this is how people looked before cinema.
Minimum route
1.5 hours
Founded
1962
Ticket
from ₽500
Today
10:00–18:00
What to see
Franz Roubaud’s Borodino panorama of 1912: 115 metres of canvas in the round, 15 metres high. Next door, the Kutuzov hut where on 1 September 1812 the council of war decided to abandon Moscow.
Minimum route — 1.5 hours for the essentials
First the panorama — give it twenty minutes. Then the 1812 hall and the Kutuzov hut in the yard.
Reference
About the museum
Opened in 1962 for the 150th anniversary of the battle of Borodino, on the site of the former village of Fili.
The building
The round panorama building was put up in 1962 by the architect A. Korabelnikov.
Good to know
Free for everyone on the third Sunday of the month.
Getting in
How to get there
Metro Kutuzovskaya or Park Pobedy, then walk to the Triumphal Arch
Opening timeschecked on 15 August 2026, open sources
closed for the day
| Mon–Wed, Sat, Sun today | 10:00–18:00 |
| Thu | 10:00–21:00 |
| Fri | closed |
last admission 45 min before closing
The halls close to entry 45 minutes early. Closed Fridays; the last Thursday of the month is a cleaning day.
Ticketschecked on 15 August 2026, open sources
When to go
Friday is closed and the last Thursday is a cleaning day — the usual trap. Thursday runs to 21:00.
Contacts
Of interest to children
The panorama impresses children too, but it needs a story. From 8.
Access for visitors with limited mobility
The museum — partly. A ramp at the entrance and a lift up to the panorama; the Kutuzov hut in the yard is over uneven ground.
Getting there — step-free. Kutuzovskaya has no lift. There is parking along Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Moscow metro stations almost never have lifts to the platform, except on the Big Circle line and the MCC. A wheelchair user is better served by the surface buses, which are low-floor across the centre.
Getting there — step-free. Kutuzovskaya has no lift. There is parking along Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Moscow metro stations almost never have lifts to the platform, except on the Big Circle line and the MCC. A wheelchair user is better served by the surface buses, which are low-floor across the centre.
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