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Unusual · since 2007

The Arcade Machines Museum

for enthusiasts
The Arcade Machines Museum
Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The only museum where the exhibit works: the machine starts on a coin, and that changes the whole way of meeting the object. As a monument of late Soviet daily life it is precise and honest.

Sea Battle, Gorodki, Sniper, Safari — the machines work rather than stand behind glass; and the soda machine with a faceted glass.

1.7 km from here · Rozhdestvenka 12 · ·
· No. 48
Art · since 1981

The Museum of Decorative Art

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The Museum of Decorative Art
shakko, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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.

Lacquer miniature — Palekh, Fedoskino, Mstyora, Kholuy; Soviet propaganda porcelain; toys of the peoples of the world; embroidery and samovars.

1.7 km from here · Delegatskaya 3, bldg 1 · ·
· No. 32
Unusual · since 2009

The Chocolate Museum

niche
The Chocolate Museum
An industrial tour rather than a museum: the value is the walk into the working shop and the history of Einem. As a collection it is next to nothing, and we do not hide that.

A walk into the working shop where sweets are wrapped in front of you; the history of Einem and Krasny Oktyabr in original wrappers and advertising.

1.7 km from here · Malaya Krasnoselskaya 7 (entrance from Lobachika 1, bldg 1) · ·
· No. 41
Art · since 1965

Apollinary Vasnetsov Museum

for enthusiasts
Apollinary Vasnetsov Museum
Apollinary Vasnetsov’s reconstructions of old Moscow are not painting but scholarship: the artist made archaeological observations, and his views still serve as textbook illustrations. Here they hang in the flat where they were made.

The studio with its original furnishings, and the views of old Moscow — historical reconstructions by which the medieval city is still imagined.

1.8 km from here · Furmanny Lane 6, flats 21–22 (3rd floor) ·
· No. 13
Unusual · since 1991

The Bookplate Museum

niche
The Bookplate Museum
The only collection of bookplates in Russia — a field between graphic art and bibliophilia shown systematically nowhere else. The circle of admirers is narrow, the subject genuine.

Bookplates by Russian and foreign artists, miniature editions and micro-books, writing on a grain of rice and miniatures on ivory.

2.1 km from here · Pushechnaya 7/5, bldg 2 (2nd floor) · ·
· No. 40
History · since 2012

The Jewish Museum

significant
The Jewish Museum
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.

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.

2.2 km from here · Obraztsova 11, bldg 1a · ·
· No. 47
Unusual · since 1912

The Museum of Music

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The Museum of Music
shakko, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
One of the largest collections of musical instruments in the world and the only place in Russia where the instrument is shown as an object of history. One can go from horn and gusli to Murzin’s synthesiser, named with Scriabin’s initials — the machine on which the music for Solaris was written. Here too is kept the State Collection of unique instruments: Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati. The Horniman shows the instrument as ethnography and the Royal College of Music shows it as performance history; here both lines run in one room, and the electronic one continues them. One thing must be known: the collection is a working one, instruments are lent to musicians, and they are not always to be found in the case.

Instruments of the peoples of the world, from Russian gusli to the Japanese koto. The ANS synthesiser of Yevgeny Murzin, named with Scriabin’s initials. Autographs and manuscripts of Russian composers. The State Collection of stringed instruments, when it is in the museum.

2.3 km from here · Fadeyeva Street 4
· No. 65
History · since 1917

The Museum of Contemporary History

for enthusiasts
The Museum of Contemporary History
The collection is large, but the display is built ideologically and is unreliable as a source of knowledge — we say so plainly. The value is the building: this is the Moscow English Club, the one from the novels, and some objects such as the propaganda porcelain.

The building of the Moscow English Club — the club of Eugene Onegin and War and Peace, with the lions on its gate; Soviet propaganda porcelain; the collection of gifts to Stalin.

2.5 km from here · Tverskaya 21 · ·
· No. 28
History · since 1997

Museum of Moscow Archaeology

for enthusiasts
Museum of Moscow Archaeology
Qweasdqwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A museum built around what cannot be moved: the 16th-century bridge piers stayed where they were and the building went up over them. That method of display is rare, and it is the reason to go down.

The white-stone piers of the Voskresensky Bridge of the 16th to 18th century — the museum was built around them; coin hoards found in the city centre; the everyday things of medieval Moscow.

2.7 km from here · Manezhnaya Square 1a · ·
· No. 15
Art · since 2015

The AZ Museum

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A one-artist museum, Anatoly Zverev, grown out of a private collection. Its value is not scale — the rooms are few and the works small — but the way of showing: an exhibition here is built as a statement, with sequence and light, rather than hung along the walls, and in Moscow that is rare. About Zverev himself an honest word is owed: an uneven artist, part of whose legacy rests on the speed of the hand rather than on depth, and his best things have to be picked out. The museum does not conceal this, which is why it is believed.

Painting and drawing by Anatoly Zverev from Natalia Opaleva’s collection. Exhibitions setting Zverev beside other artists of his circle. Work by Vladimir Nemukhin and other nonconformists.

2.7 km from here · 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street 20–22 · ·
· No. 73

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