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Nearest museums · 46
House museums · since 1922

The Scriabin Museum

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A flat from which nothing was carried out: Scriabin rented it for his last three years and died here in 1915, and it became a museum in 1922 — almost without a gap. Furniture, books, piano and the fittings of the study are the very ones. But the chief thing is another: Scriabin conceived music together with light, and the trace of that conception survives in the flat — the colour score of Prometheus and the light apparatus. No other composer’s museum in Russia shows the idea and not merely the domestic life.

The Bechstein grand at which the last works were written. The study and the library with the owner’s markings. The colour score of Prometheus and the colour-light apparatus assembled to his design. A concert hall in the same house.

2.9 km from here · Bolshoy Nikolopeskovsky Lane 11
· No. 76
Art · since 1912

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

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The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
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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.

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.

3.1 km from here · Volkhonka 12 · ·
· No. 20
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.

3.4 km from here · Malaya Krasnoselskaya 7 (entrance from Lobachika 1, bldg 1) · ·
· No. 41
Literature · since 1957

The Pushkin Museum on Prechistenka

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The Pushkin Museum on Prechistenka
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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.

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.

3.6 km from here · Prechistenka 12/2 ·
· No. 2
Art · since 2024

The Tretyakov on Kadashevskaya

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The Tretyakov on Kadashevskaya
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Not yet a collection but an instrument: the first exhibition building in Moscow built to 21st-century museum standards — climate, light, spans. Its value is that things can now be brought here that could not be brought before.

There is no permanent collection — this is an exhibition wing. See the atrium, open without a ticket, and the façades: they carry reproductions of 34 works by Russian artists.

3.6 km from here · Kadashevskaya Embankment 12 · ·
· No. 55
House museums · since 1911

The Tolstoy Museum on Prechistenka

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The Tolstoy Museum on Prechistenka
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The largest manuscript fund of any single writer in the world. The value is scholarly: you see how the text was made — Tolstoy rewrote a sentence ten times, and you can watch it happen. For the house he lived in, go to Khamovniki.

Manuscripts in Tolstoy’s hand, first editions, portraits and photographs of the writer and his family. The display follows the books, from Childhood to Resurrection.

3.7 km from here · Prechistenka 11/8 · ·
· No. 7
Art · since 1856

The Tretyakov Gallery

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The Tretyakov Gallery
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Russian art of the 11th to early 20th century is nowhere else assembled so fully — only the Russian Museum compares. But the canon was formed here: Tretyakov bought from living artists what he himself thought mattered, and one man’s private judgement became what we now call the Russian school. Seeing the 19th century elsewhere means seeing fragments.

Ivanov’s The Appearance of Christ Before the People in its own hall; Surikov’s Boyarynya Morozova and Morning of the Streltsy Execution; Repin’s Ivan the Terrible and His Son; Serov’s Girl with Peaches; Vasnetsov’s Bogatyrs; the icon halls. Rublev’s Trinity is no longer here: it was handed to the Church in 2023.

3.8 km from here · Lavrushinsky Lane 10 · ·
· No. 1
Art · since 2006

The Museum of the Russian Icon

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The Museum of the Russian Icon
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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.

3.9 km from here · Goncharnaya 3, bldg 1 · ·
· No. 54
History · since 1896

Museum of Moscow

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Museum of Moscow
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A city museum — an ordinary genre in Europe — but the material is unique in scale: a million objects about one city. The value is also the Provision Warehouses by Stasov, a model Empire building rarely accessible from inside.

The permanent display History of Moscow: the archaeology of Moscow soil, town life, plans and views of the city by century. And the Provision Warehouses themselves, an Empire monument after Vasily Stasov.

4.4 km from here · Zubovsky Boulevard 2, bldg 7 · ·
· No. 56
Literature · since 1934

The Dahl Literary Museum

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The Dahl Literary Museum
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The only museum built not around a single name but around literature as a process. Hence its strength — comparisons impossible in a house museum, and a fund of 700,000 items that makes such comparisons possible.

The permanent display Zubovsky 15: a house of science, literature and art, and the exhibitions on 20th-century Russian letters.

4.5 km from here · Zubovsky Boulevard 15, bldg 1 · ·
· No. 8

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