Excursion to the Museum of Fine Arts. Excursion to the Museum of Fine Arts named after A
Main building
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 11:00 to 20:00
- Thursday and Friday from 11:00 to 21:00
- Monday – closed
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 20:00
- Thursday and Friday – from 11:00 to 21:00
- Monday – closed
- Box office closes an hour earlier
Museum of Personal Collections (temporary exhibitions)
- The main exhibition is closed until 2023.
Ticket prices for the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in 2019.
Main building
- For adults - 400 rubles
Gallery of Art of Europe and America of the 19th-20th centuries
- For adults - 400 rubles
- For students of the Russian Federation and pensioners of the Russian Federation - 200 rubles
- For children under 16 years old - free
How to get to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Address: Moscow, Volkhonka st., 12.
The nearest metro station is Kropotkinskaya. The museum is located on the opposite side of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The museum includes three buildings: the main building, the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th-20th centuries. and the building of the museum of personal collections. Since the first place on the way from the metro is the Gallery, the sign of which also says that this is the Pushkin Museum, you don’t have to get to the main building and walk around the Gallery. Sometimes there is a queue at the ticket office of the Main building, which can become a landmark for the entrance to the Museum.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is located in the very center, close to other
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Duration of the excursion
Opening hours
from 10:00 to 19:00
Closed - Monday
Excursion cost
Prices for the exhibition for citizens of the Russian Federation depend on the number of people and the composition of the group. Check with the manager when ordering.
Services of guide-translators
Entrance tickets are paid additionally.
Please check the final cost of the tour when booking, as it may be affected by the number of people, the possible services of a local guide and the unique requirements and changes of the museums.
Tour cost: from 12,000 rubles
Duration of the excursion: 2h
Languages: Russian, English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese
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An excursion to the Pushkin Museum is one of the most impressive for guests of the capital.
It is here that a luxurious collection of world masterpieces is collected.
Art lovers will be able to appreciate the works of art of the great masters, and the abundance of interesting exhibits at the State Museum of Fine Arts can rival the Prado and the Louvre.
Since ancient times, this museum has been a treasury of world art. As part of the excursion to the Pushkin Museum, guests will visit the amazing halls of the museum, which contain more than 500 thousand interesting works of sculpture, painting, as well as various archaeological monuments.
Undoubtedly, exhibits such as the famous Egyptian mummies attract a lot of attention.
Most of the exhibition is occupied by works by world-famous painters. These are Rembrandt, colorful works of the impressionists, unique paintings of the modernists, as well as famous Italian masterpieces by Guardli, Botticelli, Canaletto, etc.
An excursion to the Pushkin Museum will also appeal to those who love unique works by Matisse, Gauguin, Picasso, Cezanne and Van Gogh.
It is worth noting that it is in this museum that paintings from famous world museums are often exhibited. Therefore, in some months, as part of an excursion to the Pushkin Museum, you can also see masterpieces by Marc Chagall or, for example, Salvador Dali.
To make the excursion clear and interesting, we will offer the services of guides and translators who will help you get acquainted with the exhibition in more detail. An introduction to the treasury of world art can be organized at any time convenient for your guests. We work not only on pre-ordered orders, but also on-line.
Museum opening hours:
Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun - from 11:00 to 20:00
ticket office (entrance) from 11:00 to 19:00
Thu, Fri - from 11:00 to 21:00
ticket office (entrance) from 11:00 to 20:00
Day off - Monday
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is the most grandiose and most visited place in Russia.
Currently, there are more than 670 thousand world works of art, casts, art photographs, copies and originals of coins from ancient times to the 21st century.
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History of the building
The first mentions of the creation in Moscow began to appear in 1831 at the request of Princess Z.A. Volkonskaya. She was convinced that a publicly accessible gallery for different segments of the population was necessary. In 1896, professor of the history department of the State Moscow University I.V. Tsvetaev published in print the terms of the competition for the construction of a building for an art museum.
State Museum Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin in Moscow is a complex of four buildings. The main building is an antique temple with columns along the facade. The colonnade of the building is completely copied from the Erechtheion temple. According to I.V. Tsvetaeva, each room of the museum is decorated in the style of the era from which this or that exhibition is presented.
Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin opened on May 31, 1912 and was called the “Museum of Fine Arts named after. Alexander III". From the first days it was a success among visitors. There were up to 800 visits per day. Since 1937, the building has had its current name. State Gallery Arts named after A.S. Pushkin. Since 1996, an additional building of the Pushkin Museum (Chayanova St., building 15) began to exist at the State Humanitarian University called the Educational Art Museum named after. Tsvetaeva.
Note! The museum was given the name of the great poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in honor of the centenary of his death.
Museum departments
The collection of specimens from Europe and America was opened in 2006. Initially, the building was an outbuilding of the Golitsyn family estate. After the reconstruction of the building, only the stone gate remained from its original appearance. Currently the gallery is divided into 26 exhibition halls. The collection displays masterpieces by famous masters, including Paul Gauguin, Pissarro, Renoir, Claude Monet and many others.
Engravings and drawings are the oldest sector of the Pushkin Museum. Most of the antique drawings in the exhibition were made possible through donations. After the 20s, methodical purchases of paintings from Western European countries began. Western artists willingly exchanged their works. A special collection of Dutch drawings from the 17th century and French drawings from the 18th century are presented. An important place is occupied by the works of oriental masters: Chinese folk pictures, popular prints of India, Japanese scrolls, as well as a collection of rare Russian drawings by S. Ushakov and L. Bunin, landscapes by A. Ukhtomsky and many others.
The antiquity department began to exist from the time when the Museum was part of Moscow University Alexandra III. A great contribution to the formation of the exhibition of antiquity was made by K.K. Hertz, who headed the Department of Arts at Moscow University since 1957. After the October Revolution, an extensive supply of original exhibits began. In 1945, the State Museum named after. Pushkin began to own fragments of marble sculptures from the Alupka Palace. The official website of the Pushkin Museum displays photographs of some of the exhibits.
Numismatics. A small collection of coins and medals became the basis for the creation of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In the 19th century, thanks to her, a cabinet of antiquities was created, and then a gallery of fine arts. The numismatics department presents a collection of coins that has no analogues in other countries. Most copies received as a gift from the Moscow collector and scientist A. G. Golikov:
- antique coins - 3019 copies;
- Russians - 3272 copies;
- eastern - 722 coins;
- 3 coins of unknown origin.
Collection of sculptures. In 1919, the formation of the sculpture department began. Visitors can see the works of A. Bari, C. Meunier, F. Stuck, A. Rossellino “Madonna and Child” and “Pieta” by Busti. Previously, these sculptures belonged to the Shuvalov house in St. Petersburg. The enormous value of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin consists of bronze sculptures (“Baptism” by M. Kaf, a bronze bust of the composer Gustav Mahler).
Addresses
The main building of the Pushkin Museum is located on Volkhonka 12. Open: 11:00–20:00, closed on Mondays.
Department of Arts of America and Europe - Volkhonka st., building 14
Exhibition of personal collections - Moscow, Volkhonka st., building 10. Working hours: 11:00–20:00, non-working days Monday and Tuesday.
Aesthetics Center for Children "Museion" - Moscow, Kolymazhny lane. 6/2 and 6/3. Open: 11:00–18:00. Closed on Monday.
The building of the art gallery named after. Tsvetaeva is located at Moscow, Chayanova str., building 15. Open from 10:00 to 17:00. Closed on Sundays and Mondays.
Apartment-memorial of the musician Svyatoslav Richter - Bolshaya Bronnaya St., building 2/6, apartment 58. Visits are by appointment.
How to get there by metro and where to buy tickets
The main building of the State Museum of Art named after A. S. Pushkin is located a five-minute walk to the Kropotkinskaya metro station. Seven minutes from the Borovitskaya metro station and Arbatskaya metro station. Detailed information on how to get to the Pushkin Museum can be found on the official website.
Tickets can be purchased on the website and at the ticket offices of the Pushkin Museum..
Excursions to Moscow museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin can be held in two formats.
The first format of the excursion is, of course, individual. On such an excursion there are usually from 1 to 5 people present.
The goal of tourists is, as part of a small group, to receive as much useful and interesting information as possible from communication with a professional guide.
After all, you need to understand that an individual excursion takes place in dialogue mode.
Each guest can ask any question to the guide or guide-translator, change the focus of the program, shorten or increase the duration of the tour as a whole.
Group excursion to the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin
The 2nd format of the excursion is an excursion for previously independently formed groups of 1 to 20 tourists.
Group excursions are usually more suitable for adult groups or schoolchildren.
In any case, City Voyage specialists use a completely individual approach to organizing and conducting excursions to the Pushkin Museum.
Cost of excursions and entrance tickets to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts for Russian citizens
The main building of the Pushkin Museum of Art. Gallery of art from Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries. Department of personal collections of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
This price is valid when ordering an excursion 3 weeks or more before the planned date of its implementation..
up to 5 people: 7000 rubles.
from 6 to 15 people: 6000 rubles.
This cost is preliminary and is valid when ordering an excursion 2 weeks or less before the planned date of its conduct.
Excursion services, excursion packages and guide services in Russian for adult tourists.
up to 5 people: 8000 rubles.
from 6 to 15 people: 7000 rubles.
Excursion services, excursion packages and guide services in Russian for schoolchildren and students.
Up to 15 children and 2 accompanying persons: 5000 rubles.
Entrance fees to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts are paid additionally.
Adults – 400 rubles / 1 ticket. Children under 18 years old – 100 rubles per ticket.
Duration of the excursion: 1.5 hours.
Excursions to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts for foreigners
Excursions to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts are conducted for Russian and foreign tourists.
Guides-translators can work in almost any language: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic, Persian and others.
The cost of an excursion to the Pushkin Museum named after A.S. Pushkin for foreign citizens
The information is relevant if you plan to order an excursion 3 weeks or more before its date..
7000 rubles excursion service and excursion voucher for a group of up to 15 people, services of a professional guide-translator in a foreign language (all our guides have licenses giving the right to conduct excursions). More than 10 years of experience.
The information is valid when ordering an excursion 2 weeks or less before the planned date of its implementation.
Group: adults or schoolchildren, students up to 15 people.
8000 rubles excursion service and excursion voucher for a group of up to 15 people, services of a professional guide-translator in a foreign language (all our guides have licenses giving the right to conduct excursions). More than 10 years of experience.
Excursion programs in the Main building of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for groups and individual tourists
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts hosts thematic and sightseeing excursion programs for adults and children.
Important! Children on excursions are accepted only from 9 years old, 3rd grade of school. School groups at the Pushkin Museum of Art must be accompanied by adults.
Please note that when choosing an excursion topic for children at the Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin needs to be taken very seriously.
Museum Gallery named after. Pushkin is very popular among both Russians and foreigners. Professional guides and translators are always ready to conduct excursions in the Pushkin Museum for foreign citizens in almost any language in the world.
Sightseeing tour of the Museum of Fine Arts
The main story is devoted to the history of the creation of the art museum, the architectural features of the museum complex, its main exhibits, monuments of ancient art and culture of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Ancient Egypt and the Middle East.
This excursion gives all tourists the opportunity to see and appreciate with their own eyes the works of art of the Art Gallery named after. A.S. Pushkin.
During the excursion program, the guide focuses on the peculiarities of the emergence and development of national schools of fine arts, the development of European painting in general: Holland, Italy, France, Spain of the 17th-18th centuries.
Particular attention is paid to icon painting, such styles as classicism, rococo, academicism and neoclassicism.
Introductory tour for children with the Pushkin Museum of Art
Excursion for younger schoolchildren.
Professional guides will tell you about the basics of ancient architecture and art, the emergence of sculpture, graphics, painting and its genres.
Excursion program: Art of the Ancient World
The excursion is dedicated to the peculiarities of the development of art and culture of the Ancient World, such countries as Egypt, Rome, Troy, the Middle East and Greece.
Excursion: The ancient world and its art (Rome and Greece)
The main focus of this excursion is on the origins of ancient ancient civilizations, the stages of their development, formation and influence on the surrounding world and history in general.
An important and interesting thing on this excursion is to consider the features, similarities and differences of the culture and art of the Ancient states of Rome and Greece.
Excursion program: Ancient Egypt, its art and culture
This program is one of the most popular among tourists at the Pushkin Museum of Art.
The excursion examines the stages of development of the art and culture of Ancient Egypt, one of the first Ancient civilizations.
Art of Ancient Greece
In the Greek Hall, tourists will be introduced to the cultural and artistic monuments of Ancient Greece, Mycenae and Crete. During the excursion you will be able to see authentic architectural monuments that corresponded to different stages of cultural development in Ancient Greece.
Excursion program Ancient Rome. Culture and art
The subject of the excursion in the Roman Hall will be ancient casts characterizing the development of culture in Ancient Rome, a statue of the Capitoline She-wolf, portraits of Roman emperors.
By studying the art monuments of Ancient Rome, tourists will be able to get acquainted with the features of Roman decorative and applied arts and architecture.
Excursion Art of the Middle Ages
The excursion is dedicated to a very important stage in the development of society, the era of one thousand years. This era extended between all known eras of Antiquity and the Renaissance.
Of course, the excursion reveals the features of medieval art of Byzantium and European countries, especially France, Italy and Germany.
They will talk in great detail and interestingly about the Romanesque and Gothic styles, the influence of the church and religion on the culture and art of the Middle Ages.
Renaissance Art Program
During this excursion program, professional guides reveal new artistic techniques, a new worldview that appeared in the art of the Renaissance.
During the first part of the excursion, icons and altar images, paintings by famous masters of the Renaissance in Italy will be examined.
The second part is devoted to a review of casts of the most famous monuments of sculpture in Italy, such masters as Michelangelo, Donatello and others.
Art of Holland and Flanders 17th century
Holland and Flanders existed independently in the 17th century, as two different states. It should be noted that these were two characteristically different schools of art.
During this excursion, our guides will talk about the main features and characteristics of two great art schools.
The works of such masters as Resdahl, Rembrandt, Rubens and others will be considered.
Development of art in Spain and Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries
As part of the excursion program, our experts will discuss in their story the new styles of art that arose in Spain and Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries. These are the styles of Caravaggism, Baroque, Academicism.
In Spain, these trends are represented by the works of Zurbaran, Murillo and others.
The 18th century is characterized by the works of such masters as Canaletto, Guardi, Crespi and others.
Excursion program “Art of France of the 17th century”
During the program, the activities of such masters of French classicism as Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin are discussed. Particular attention during the excursion is paid to French Caravaggism and academicism.
Excursion about art in France of the 18th century and the first third of the 19th century
This program is dedicated to the Rococo style, which clearly and fully reflected the courtly culture of the ruling court of France, an era when the art of France had great importance and influence on pan-European tastes and styles.
Excursion to the gallery of art from Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries
Sightseeing tour of the gallery of art of the 19th-20th centuries.
The program reveals in detail the features of the development of art of the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on its main directions: academicism, realism, romanticism, abstractionism, post-impressionism, cubism, fauvism and many others.
Expositions and buildings of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
- The main building of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin,
- Gallery of art from Europe and America of the 19th-20th centuries. Center for aesthetic education "Museion",
- Department of personal collections,
- Memorial apartment of Svyatoslav Richter,
- Educational Art Museum named after I.V. Tsvetaeva.
Time and work schedule of the Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin
The main building of the Pushkin Museum named after. Pushkin. Gallery of art from America and Europe of the 19th–20th centuries.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday: from 11.00 to 20.00.
Thursday, Friday: from 11.00 to 21.00.
Closed on Monday.
About the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin
Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin is one of the largest art museums in Russia.
The exhibitions of the Pushkin Museum of Art are richly represented by plaster casts of antiquity, casts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The authentic works of great foreign masters of painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative arts amaze the imagination and fill the soul with real awe.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts was founded in August 1898, back in the 19th century.
In May 1912, the first viewer was able to visit the museum.
In 1937, the Museum of Fine Arts was named after A.S. Pushkin.
The founder of the Museum of Art named after A.S. Pushkin is Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, he was also the first director of the museum.
