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Moscow museums · Art
Art · since 1912

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
original name: Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина
world-class
The Louvre and the Metropolitan hold more originals; what is unique is Tsvetaev’s cast collection — the only large teaching museum of the history of art in the world still intact and still working as intended. In Europe such collections went into storage in the 20th century. Add the Fayum portraits and objects from Schliemann’s Trojan hoards.
Minimum route
3 hours
Founded
1912
Ticket
from 400 ₽ ≈ £3
Today
10:00–20:00
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
user:Ghirlandajo, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
What to see

The teaching collection of plaster casts after antique and Renaissance sculpture — Tsvetaev’s idea, unmatched for completeness; the Fayum portraits; objects from Priam’s Treasure found by Schliemann at Troy; the Egyptian collection. The French 19th–20th century is in the Gallery at Volkhonka 14, on a separate ticket.

Minimum route — 3 hours for the essentials

The Italian Court and the casts — the reason the museum was built. Then the Fayum portraits, the Egyptian hall and Priam’s Treasure.

Reference
About the museum
The second largest collection of foreign art in Russia. Conceived by Ivan Tsvetaev as a teaching Museum of Fine Arts for Moscow University and opened on 31 May 1912.
The building
A building in the form of an antique temple on a high podium, by Roman Klein, 1898–1912.
Good to know
The museum is building a “museum town”; part of the buildings on Volkhonka are closed for works.
What to read

Marina Tsvetaeva, “Father and His Museum” — how and why this collection of casts was built, written by the founder’s daughter.

Getting in
Addresschecked 15 August 2026, the museum website
Volkhonka 12
How to get there
Metro Kropotkinskaya, Borovitskaya or Biblioteka imeni Lenina
Opening timeschecked 15 August 2026, open sources
open now until 20:00
Monclosed
Tue, Wed, Sun today10:00–20:00
Thu, Sat10:00–21:00
Fri11:00–21:00
last admission 1 h before closing
Entry closes an hour early. Closed Mondays. Timed tickets at half-hour intervals.
Ticketschecked 15 August 2026, the museum website
Main building 400 ₽, concessions 200 ₽. Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th–20th centuries (Volkhonka 14) 300 ₽, concessions 150 ₽.
from 400 ₽ ≈ £3 Converted at the Bank of Russia rate for 18 August 2026.
tickets online · timed entry
When to go
Half-hour slots. Friday starts at 11:00 and runs to 21:00 — the calmest time.
Contacts
pushkinmuseum.art · +7 (495) 697-95-78, +7 (495) 697-15-46
Of interest to children
Children read the plaster casts as “real giants”, and the Egyptian hall never fails. From 7; the museum has a strong children’s centre.
Access for visitors with limited mobility
The museum — partly. The 1912 building: there is a platform lift at the entrance, but not every hall connects without steps. The Gallery at Volkhonka 14 is fully accessible.
Getting there — partly. Kropotkinskaya has no lift. The nearest drop-off is on Volkhonka. 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
4 August — 1 November 2026
The Diamond Vehicle. Buddhist Art of Russia

Over seven hundred objects: sculpture and painting of Russian Buddhism, almost none of it shown before. More than a hundred sculptures were conserved for the opening.

If this moved you
In the same city

If the Fayum portraits are what drew you in, the Oriental Museum starts the same East from the other end: Central Asia, the Caucasus and Iran instead of Egypt.

outstandingThe Museum of Oriental Art

If the casts left you thinking that the original matters more than the copy, everything in Lavrushinsky is original, and it shows what that costs.

world-classThe Tretyakov Gallery
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