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History · since 1994

The Old English Court

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The Old English Court
O.Bragina, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The oldest surviving secular building in Moscow. The value is in the vaults themselves: almost no 16th-century interiors are left in the city, and these were recovered by Baranovsky, the restorer who saved half of it.

The Treasury Chamber with its 16th–17th-century interior and the original vaults; the display on Russian–English trade and finds from the Zaryadye digs.

And we came to the Mosco the 4. day of October, and were lodged that night in a simple house: but the next day we were sent for to the Emperour his secretarie…
George Killingworth, 1589 in full
8.0 km from here · Varvarka 4a (Zaryadye Park) · ·
· No. 18
Unusual · since 1991

The Bookplate Museum

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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.

8.1 km from here · Pushechnaya 7/5, bldg 2 (2nd floor) · ·
· No. 40
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.

8.1 km from here · Delegatskaya 3, bldg 1 · ·
· No. 32
History · since 1859

The Romanov Chambers

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The Romanov Chambers
Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
One of the first museums in Russia: it opened in 1859, thirteen years before the Historical Museum, and opened already as a reconstruction of boyar life — an idea unheard of at the time. What is to be looked at is not authenticity down to the nail but the conception itself: how the middle of the nineteenth century pictured the seventeenth, and what came of it. Barry and Pugin were building Westminster in those same decades, and the case is the same — a century imagining an earlier one and building it in earnest. The collection meanwhile is real: furniture, vessels, textiles, tiles. Together with the Old English Court two steps away, this is the best pair in Moscow about the city before Peter.

The sixteenth-century undercroft, the one genuine part of the building. The interiors recreated by Richter in the 1850s: the dining chamber, the boyarynya’s room, the light room. Tiled stoves, chests, vessels and textiles of the seventeenth century.

8.2 km from here · Varvarka Street 10 ·
· No. 77
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.

8.3 km from here · Rozhdestvenka 12 · ·
· No. 48
Unusual · since 1894

The Bakhrushin Museum

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The Bakhrushin Museum
Alxklg1, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
A collection begun in 1894 by one private man and grown into the largest theatre collection in the world — so the museum reckons it, and it is hard to dispute: a million and a half items. Its value is completeness: Russian theatre can be followed here in sequence, from the serf stage to the present, rather than by isolated stars. The V&A holds the national theatre archive of Britain and shows it magnificently; the difference is that there the Russian line is a guest and here it is the whole subject. The designs by Golovin, Bakst, Korovin and Exter are, incidentally, first-rate painting — they merely happen to be filed under theatre. The main building reopened after a long restoration in 2024, and the make-up of the permanent display is worth checking before setting out.

Designs for sets and costumes by Golovin, Bakst, Korovin, Exter and Tatlin. Costumes and possessions of the great actors. Stage models. The archives of theatres and directors. Bakhrushin’s own house, built for the collection.

8.3 km from here · Bakhrushina Street 31/12
· No. 66
Science and nature · since 2011

Experimentanium

for enthusiasts
Experimentanium
Barvenkovskiy, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A Western-style science centre, not a museum: no originals, only apparatus. Excellent for a first acquaintance with physics; it gives nothing at all for the history of science.

Halls of mechanics, optics, acoustics and electricity; a mirror maze; science shows to a timetable.

8.7 km from here · Leningradsky Prospekt 80, bldg 11 · ·
· No. 49
Art · since 2006

The Museum of the Russian Icon

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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.

9.0 km from here · Goncharnaya 3, bldg 1 · ·
· No. 54
History · since 2012

The Jewish Museum

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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.

9.1 km from here · Obraztsova 11, bldg 1a · ·
· No. 47
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.

9.5 km from here · Sarinsky Proyezd 13 · ·
· No. 39

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