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History · since 2012
The Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
original name: Еврейский музей и центр толерантности
Come for two things at once: the Bakhmetevsky garage by Melnikov and Shukhov, a building of world significance, and the history of Russian Jewry told from inside as nowhere else. The holdings of originals are modest, and that is worth knowing beforehand.
Minimum route
2.5 hours
Founded
2012
Ticket
from ₽400
Today
12:00–22:00
What to see
The building itself — the Bakhmetevsky garage of 1926–1927, one of Konstantin Melnikov’s principal works with steel structures by Vladimir Shukhov; the Café on Basseynaya, a reconstruction of shtetl life.
Minimum route — 2.5 hours for the essentials
The permanent display runs as one route, with the Café on Basseynaya halfway. Look separately at the garage itself.
Reference
About the museum
Opened in 2012 in the Bakhmetevsky bus garage. The permanent display tells the history of the Jewish people and of Russian Jewry as a sequence of interactive spaces.
The building
The Bakhmetevsky garage, 1926–1927, architect Konstantin Melnikov, structures by Vladimir Shukhov.
Getting in
How to get there
Metro Maryina Roshcha or Dostoyevskaya
Opening timesupdated automatically on 17 August 2026
closed for the day
| Mon–Thu, Sun today | 12:00–22:00 |
| Fri | closed |
| Sat | 18:00–22:30 |
Closed on Saturdays and Jewish holidays. Friday closes early.
Ticketschecked on 15 August 2026, the museum website
When to go
Closed Saturdays and Jewish holidays; Friday shuts at 15:00. Sunday is busy.
Contacts
Of interest to children
One of the few museums in Moscow that genuinely holds children: screens, sound, film, interactive tables. From 6.
Access for visitors with limited mobility
The museum — step-free. Fully accessible: level floors throughout, lifts, accessible toilets, wheelchairs at the door. One of the best in Moscow for this.
Getting there — step-free. Maryina Roshcha has no lift and Dostoyevskaya is a kilometre away. There is car parking and low-floor buses. 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. Maryina Roshcha has no lift and Dostoyevskaya is a kilometre away. There is car parking and low-floor buses. 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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