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Moscow culture online

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Moscow culture online

Museums

Moscow museums are the treasure of classic and modern arts and unique collection of historic relics, technological innovations and monuments, and multi media exhibitions. The masterpieces are now available remotely. One can have its own online guided tour. Visit Moscow museums and exhibitions online and free of charge, learn more about museums' stories every day!

Moscow museums are the treasure of classic and modern arts and unique collection of historic relics, technological innovations and monuments, and multi media exhibitions. The masterpieces are now available remotely. One can have its own online guided tour. Visit Moscow museums and exhibitions online and free of charge, learn more about museums' stories every day!

Stories of Things

Epoch on a platter: studying propaganda porcelain from the collection of the Museum of Ceramics in Kuskovo

Find out how lines from the Gospel became the Soviet slogans while household cups and plates turned into masterpieces and an instrument of population upbringing

Behind the glass. History of a thick glass tumbler from Peter the Great to Petrov-Vodkin

Review the treasures of the Kuskovo Manor House Museum and learn who invented the thick glass tumbler, what the origin of the expression "to be tipsy" is and who was the first one to break a glass for luck

Zamoskvorechye matchmakers, fortunetellers from Zaryadye. How Muscovites were looking for their significant other in the 19th century

Moscow families were living in the tradition of the Domostroy for a long time. Changes in the order of life were initiated by Peter the Great’s reforms and continued through the 19th and 20th centuries. The curators of the Family Values exhibition describe the Russian wedding traditions of the past

The history of two photos. Learn how Marlene Dietrich fell on her knees in front of Konstantin Paustovsky

Photos from the K.G. Paustovsky Museum collection make evidence of an amazing story of how German and American actress Marlene Dietrich got acquainted with the Soviet writer

Travelling to 19th Century Ethiopia with Lieutenant Mashkov

Exploring items from the State Historical Museum collection: spears brought to Russia from East Africa over two centuries ago. There is a story of a man who managed to bring his dream to life behind them

What the first harmonica looked like and who created it

The 200-year-long way of the harmonica — from a musical instrument of salons for select circles to the one loved by all. Learn the historical version of its creation that Alfred Mirek thought to be true

The glass from which Nicolas II Thar of Russia used to drink

Examining the Faberge silver-rimmed glass from the State Historical Museum collection. It was a witness to a long-awaited meeting that took place in St. Petersburg in the late 19th century

Teatralnaya Square swamp and two thousand canons. Looking at Moscow of the 17th century

Appolinary Vasnetsov’s graphic painting "Gun-Casting Courtyard on the Neglinnaya River" shows the process of manufacturing guns and bells, a Moscow courtyard closed to foreigners, and tells the audience about the painter who was an ardent lover of the capital’s history

The beloved place of Turgenev and Gilyarovsky: exploring the iconic Hermitage restaurant menu

Telling a story about a Moscow’s centre Paris-chick restaurant that pretended to be a modest tavern, and about its founder who introduced Olivier salad into the Russian cuisine

Where from the American "National" cash register of the early 20th century came to Moscow

How the first cash register was invented in America, why it contained a small bell and why it settled down in Russia

Mysteries of "Moscow Patio" and Vasily Polenov’s letter

About the window view that conquered the painter and the picture that became a long-lasting symbol of Moscow patio

Wild and domestic. Studying Old Engravings with Cats

Admiring predatory cats from the Natural Science Encyclopaedia of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon and the Illustrated Book for Children by Friedrich Justin Bertuch, as well as domestic cats created by Louis-Eugene Lambert, a Frenchman nicknamed "The Feline Raphael"

Old engravings. What Moscow looked like in the eyes of the 17th-19th-century travellers

Six books worth reading to study the history of Russia and the history of fine arts

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From the Kingfisher to the Loon. Exploring the bird collection of the Biological Museum

Learning the habits of#nbsp;five most interesting birds in the Biological Museum named after K.A. Timiryazev

The Interior of Twisted Shells. How the grotto in Kuskovo was built and decorated

About the fashion of parks that came to Russia from France, a man-made cave, the statue "The man looks at shells and talks" and visits by the royalty

Heraldry of the capital city. How to read Moscow districts' coats of arm

Each Moscow district has now its own specific coat of arm. For instance, some coats of arm contain symbols of local museums and parks. Learning basic principles of emblem making and Moscow history by its districts' coats of arm

How Tsarskoye Selo turned into an exemplary almshouse

Find out how Tsarskoye Selo where the father of Peter the Great was growing dates and grapes became an almshouse for handicapped war participants at the time of Nicolas I reign, how architect Konstantin Ton’s project saved the cathedral from demolition and how veterans' life was arranged

Legends of the "Russian Troya." Exploring exhibits of "The Battle of Borodino" Exhibition Museum

Stories about the legendary regiment that participated in the largest war campaigns of Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, about how a fragment of the Panorama Battle depicting one of its feats was saved, and about five statuettes cast to commemorate the Crimean War

"My friend Pierre Cardin called me a surrealist." Interview with sculptor Burganov

A long talk with the master about his creative activity — from a hobby group at the Youth Club of Baku to creating a museum named after him in Moscow

Malevich’s wife and "night witch." Six women’s portraits from Moscow museums

Turgenev Memorial Estate, Moscow Museum of Modern Arts, Aleksandr Shilov Gallery, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Battle of Borodino Panorama Museum, and Kuskovo Memorial Estate tell stories about women' portraits from their collections and women who posed for these portraits

The first love of Yesenin and the last love of Mayakovsky. Five stories from museums

Lives of people of arts as a storehouse of romantic stories. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Mayakovsky State Museum, Tropinin and Moscow Artists of His Time Museum, Yesenin Museum and Turgenev Museum tell stories about the love experience of their heroes

Novosibirsky Komsomolets B-396 Submarine

We are inviting you to make an online tour to the Soviet diesel-electric submarine that joined the North Fleet task force back in 1981. Its naval service saw war patrolling in the Mediterranean, performing missions in the North and South Atlantics, off the African coast, in the Barents and Norwegian Seas. It is now in a dry dock at the Museum and Park complex Severnoe Tushino

3D tour to Ostankino Manor House Museum

Once on a virtual tour to the Ostankino Manor House Museum you can see the palace interiors in detail before its large-scale restoration. Museum items of a special value are marked at the panoramic exposition and provided with historic references

Museums of Moscow Online

One virtual collection contains over 40 thousand exhibits from dozens of Moscow museums. Viewing the museum exhibits is just part of the online tour. Besides, one can search them using a number of criteria, select items for one’s own themed collections, order HD images and write comments. The exhibition will be interesting for all art and history lovers and useful for education and research purposes

Permanent exhibition of the State Historical Museum

Explore exhibits in 35 halls of the State Historical Museum. An epic 2.5-million-year-long journey awaits you. It starts in the Stone Age and comes to the end in the early 20th century. Examine hundreds of historical artifacts in detail

Tsaritsyno Open-Air Museum

Kuskovo Memorial Estate

Kolomenskoe — Izmaylovo — Lyublino Open-Air Museum

Biological Museum named after K.A. Timiryazev

Darwin Museum

Museum of Russian Lubok
and Naive Art

Ilya Glazunov Gallery

Skryabin Memorial Museum

A.A. Bakhrushin
Theatre Museum

State Museum of the Defence of Moscow

Museum Panorama: The Battle of Borodino

GULAG History Museum

Museum of Cosmonautics

Multimedia Art Museum

Sergey Andriyaka’s School of Watercolours

Vladimir Vysotsky Museum

The Museum of Moscow

Museum of V.A. Tropinin and Moscow Artists of his Time

Burganov House

Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad

Eldar Film Club-Museum

Moscow Art Theatre Museum

Tushino Exhibition Hall

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