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Military history · since 1995

The Victory Museum

for enthusiasts
The Victory Museum
mos.ru, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A memorial rather than a collection: its strength is the scale of the spectacle and the Hall of Remembrance, not the originals. By museum standards it is average, and you should know that before going.

The Hall of Glory and the Hall of Remembrance and Sorrow; six dioramas of the decisive battles; the open-air park of military hardware.

4.4 km from here · Pobedy Square 3 · ·
· No. 29
Science and nature · since 1951

MSU Botanical Garden

for enthusiasts
MSU Botanical Garden
TanyaChu, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The garden was laid out in 1951 together with the new university buildings on the Lenin Hills, and it is kept as a collection: every holding has its name, its count of varieties and its year. The flowering part by the gate is open to walk through on your own — lilacs, irises, roses, peonies, perennials. There are more than two hundred and fifty varieties of lilac here and about seven hundred irises; the tree peonies were bred in the university itself. Every plant here has its own name and its own provenance.

Lilacs: more than two hundred and fifty varieties, Russian and foreign; the display plot was laid out in 1974. Irises — about seven hundred, from bearded to bulbous. Roses, more than two hundred varieties. Peonies, more than three hundred, among them tree peonies bred in the university itself. Daylilies, about two hundred varieties, from the old ones to the present.

4.5 km from here · Leninskie Gory 1, bldg 12 · ·
· No. 99
Art · since 2015

The AZ Museum

significant
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.

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

4.6 km from here · Rozhdestvenka 12 · ·
· No. 48
Art · since 2006

The Museum of the Russian Icon

outstanding
The Museum of the Russian Icon
Museum of the Russian icon, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
For Ethiopian Christian art it is the only collection in Russia; for the Russian icon it competes with state museums. Add a circumstance almost unheard of anywhere in the world for a collection of this level: admission is free.

The Russian icon of the 14th to 20th century, from Novgorod panels to Old Believer painting; Ethiopian Christian art, the only such collection in Russia; a reconstructed iconostasis and post-Byzantine Greek icons.

4.7 km from here · Goncharnaya 3, bldg 1 · ·
· No. 54
Science and nature · since 1907

The Darwin Museum

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The Darwin Museum
Andrei Subbotin, CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The oldest museum of evolution in Russia, built around an idea rather than around a case of stuffed animals: Kots collected proofs of variability, and the display serves the proof. It cannot match Vienna or Berlin for material, but its way of arguing stands on its own.

Early 20th-century taxidermy by Filipp Fedulov, among the finest anywhere; the collection of albinos and melanists gathered by Kots as visible proof of variability; the Living Planet hall.

4.8 km from here · Vavilova 57 · ·
· No. 57
Unusual · since 1912

The Museum of Music

outstanding
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.

4.9 km from here · Fadeyeva Street 4 ·
· No. 65
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.

5.1 km from here · Delegatskaya 3, bldg 1 · ·
· No. 32
Science and nature · since 1993

The Water Museum

for enthusiasts
The Water Museum
Architect: Max Hoeppener. Photo: NVO, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A departmental museum with working models of city infrastructure — an almost extinct genre. Worth seeing for anyone curious about how the city works underground; there is nowhere else in Moscow for that.

Working models of waterworks, from the Rostokino aqueduct to the present treatment plants; the history of the Moscow sewer in drawings and photographs.

5.1 km from here · Sarinsky Proyezd 13 · ·
· No. 39
Art · since 2016

Museum of Russian Impressionism

outstanding
Museum of Russian Impressionism
Sergey A. Demidov, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The term “Russian impressionism” is contested, and this is the only institution that investigates rather than illustrates it. The value is the exhibition programme: works come here from private collections that would otherwise never be seen.

Konstantin Korovin, Valentin Serov, Igor Grabar, Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky. The building is a converted cylindrical flour store of the Bolshevik factory — a rare case of industry turned into a museum.

5.3 km from here · Leningradsky Prospekt 15, bldg 11 · ·
· No. 51