Moscow museums · Literature
Literature · since 1957
The Pushkin Museum on Prechistenka
The Pushkin State Museum
original name: Государственный музей А. С. Пушкина
There is no memorial Pushkin house in Moscow — he did not live here. The value is not authentic walls but a complete age: objects, books and portraits from which the Pushkin era can be reconstructed whole. For relics go to the Moika in Petersburg; for the era, here.
Minimum route
1.5–2 hours
Founded
1957
Today
10:00–18:00
What to see
The permanent displays Pushkin and His Age (fifteen rooms of the manor house) and Pushkin’s Fairy Tales; first editions, portraits of his circle, everyday objects of the early 19th century.
Minimum route — 1.5–2 hours for the essentials
The enfilade of the main house — Pushkin and His Age. End with Pushkin’s Fairy Tales if you have children with you.
Reference
About the museum
One of the country’s largest literary museums, founded in 1957: material on Pushkin’s life and work, and books and art of his age.
The building
The Khrushchev–Seleznev town estate, 1814–1817: Moscow Empire style, probably by Afanasy Grigoriev.
Good to know
The museum has several branches, among them Pushkin’s flat on Arbat 53. Free on the third Sunday of the month.
Getting in
How to get there
Metro Kropotkinskaya
Opening timeschecked on 15 August 2026, open sources
closed for the day
| Mon | closed |
| Tue, Wed, Fri–Sun today | 10:00–18:00 |
| Thu | 13:00–21:00 |
last admission 30 min before closing
Box office closes half an hour early. Closed Mondays and the last Friday of the month.
Ticketschecked on 15 August 2026, open sources
When to go
Quiet almost always. Thursday runs until 21:00 and is emptiest.
Contacts
Of interest to children
For “Pushkin’s Fairy Tales” — from 6; younger children will not manage the main display.
Access for visitors with limited mobility
The museum — partly. An early 19th-century mansion: a platform lift at the entrance, level between the enfilade rooms but not everywhere.
Getting there — partly. Kropotkinskaya has no lift. The approach along Prechistenka is level. 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. Kropotkinskaya has no lift. The approach along Prechistenka is level. 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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