Moscow museums · Art
Art · since 1981
The Museum of Decorative Art
All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art
original name: Всероссийский музей декоративного искусства
Lacquer miniature of four schools and propaganda porcelain — the objects by which Russia is recognisable in world decorative art. The material is first-rate; the display is not up to it.
Minimum route
1.5 hours
Founded
1981
Ticket
from ₽350
Today
11:00–19:00
What to see
Lacquer miniature — Palekh, Fedoskino, Mstyora, Kholuy; Soviet propaganda porcelain; toys of the peoples of the world; embroidery and samovars.
Minimum route — 1.5 hours for the essentials
Lacquer miniature first — Palekh, Fedoskino, Mstyora, Kholuy. Then the propaganda porcelain and the toys.
Reference
About the museum
Russian folk and decorative art — more than 120,000 items. Formerly the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art.
The building
The Osterman estate, a monument of the late 18th and 19th century.
Getting in
How to get there
Metro Tsvetnoy Bulvar, Sukharevskaya or Mayakovskaya
Opening timeschecked on 15 August 2026, open sources
closed for the day
| Mon | closed |
| Tue, Wed today | 11:00–19:00 |
| Thu | 11:00–21:00 |
| Fri | 11:00–20:00 |
| Sat, Sun | 12:00–20:00 |
Closed Mondays; the last Monday of the month is a cleaning day.
Ticketschecked on 15 August 2026, open sources
When to go
Calm on weekdays. Saturday and Sunday start later, at 12:00.
Contacts
damuseum.ru · +7 (499) 973-32-14
Of interest to children
Toys of the peoples of the world and lacquer miniature give children something to look at. From 6.
Access for visitors with limited mobility
The museum — partly. There are a ramp and a lift, but not into every hall of the estate.
Getting there — partly. Tsvetnoy Bulvar 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. Tsvetnoy Bulvar 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.
On now
10 July — 30 August 2026 · 11 days left
Father and son: with Alexei the Russian village and its people, with Igor a language of signs continuing the nonconformist line. A retrospective of work made in different years and different countries. Curated by Marina Gurevich, a scholar of the Leningrad underground.
· No. 32