Pushkin Fine Arts Museum
ul Volkhonka 12
Telephone - 203 7412
Opening hours - Tues-Sun 10am-6pm
An absolutely amazing assortment of impressionist paintings, post-impressionist paintings and European works that have been gathered together from various collections after the Revolution. Admission is R260.
Dom-Muzey Chaliapin - Chaliapin House Museum
25/27 Novinsky bulvar
Telephone - 495 252 2530
Opening hours - Tues & Sat, 10am-6pm, Wed & Thurs 10.30am-6.30pm, Sun 10am-4pm
Before the Soviets drove him away and turned his house into apartments, one of the world’s greatest opera singers used to live in this house. Now the rooms have been restored to their former glory with his costumes and collection of artworks back where they belong. Admission is R25.
The Vladimir Vysotsky Museum
3 Nizhny Tagansky Tupik
Telephone - 915 7578/7199
Opening hours - 11am-5.30pm, closed Sunday & Monday
Finally opening in 1992 - some 12 years after the poet’s death - this cultural and scientific centre is filled with scripts, photos and documents all relating to the life and work of Vladimir Vysotsky.
The Armoury at the Kremlin
Kremlin, Troitsky Most
Telephone - 095 202 3776
Opening hours - Mon-Wed, Fri-Sun 10am-4.30pm
A veritable Aladdin’s cave of all things glittering and bejewelled, the Tsar’s used the Armoury to store their treasures during bygone days. Modern day magpie’s can marvel at sparkling gems, crowns and coronets as well as the famed Faberge eggs. Admission costs R350 and tickets can be bought from the Kutafya Tower in Aleksandrovsky sod (the Aleksandrov Gardens) or from the Armoury Chamber, 1 Cathedral Square, from 9.30am-4pm daily except Thursdays.
Museum of Moscow History
Novaya Square 12
Opening hours - Tues-Sun 10am-5pm
One of the city’s oldest museums, this fascinating place focuses on the activities of the Muscovities through the ages from displays of ancient artefacts and utensils to photographs documenting the nineteenth century.
Central Museum of the Revolution
21, Tverskaya Ulitsa
Telephone - 299 6724
Opening hours - Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 10am-5pm
Moscow has been subject to a violent and bloody history and this excellent museum documents the various uprisings throughout the twentieth century. From the stones hurled in the streets in 1905 to the Soviet collapse of the 1990’s it’s all here in vivid detail.
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