Moscow museums · Literature
Literature · since 1934
The Dahl Literary Museum
Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature
original name: Государственный музей истории российской литературы имени В. И. Даля
The only museum built not around a single name but around literature as a process. Hence its strength — comparisons impossible in a house museum, and a fund of 700,000 items that makes such comparisons possible.
Minimum route
1.5 hours
Founded
1934
Ticket
from ₽200
Today
11:00–21:00
What to see
The permanent display Zubovsky 15: a house of science, literature and art, and the exhibitions on 20th-century Russian letters.
Minimum route — 1.5 hours for the essentials
The permanent display Zubovsky 15 and one of the temporary shows — there are always two or three.
Reference
About the museum
The former State Literary Museum, founded in 1934. The only museum in Russia devoted to the history of literature as such: over 700,000 items. It unites twelve branches, among them the house museums of Chekhov, Lermontov, Prishvin and Pasternak.
The building
The Lyuboshchinsky–Vernadsky apartment house of 1912, reopened as a museum centre in 2019.
Good to know
The old display in the Naryshkin Chambers on Petrovka 28 closed in 2014: there is no museum at that address any more.
Getting in
How to get there
Metro Park Kultury
Opening timeschecked on 15 August 2026, open sources
closed for the day
| Mon | closed |
| Tue, Fri–Sun | 11:00–18:00 |
| Wed, Thu today | 11:00–21:00 |
last admission 30 min before closing
Box office closes half an hour early. Closed Mondays.
Ticketschecked on 15 August 2026, the museum website
One exhibition 200 ₽; concessions 150 ₽.
from ₽200
tickets online
When to go
Wednesday and Thursday until 21:00; empty in the evening.
Contacts
Of interest to children
The literary exhibitions are aimed at a reading teenager.
Access for visitors with limited mobility
The museum — partly. Restored in 2019: there is a lift, but the entrance has steps with a ramp.
Getting there — partly. Park Kultury has no lift. 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 — partly. Park Kultury has no lift. 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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