Contemporary art, naive art and Tsvetaeva’s things: what you can see in museums for the price of a cup of coffee. British Lawn Mower Museum
There are museums around the world on any subject, so don’t assume that you won’t find a suitable option for yourself. At the same time, going to a museum can be tiring, overwhelming with the amount of information, and even boring if you don’t have a good plan of action. Do your research in advance about the museum, choose a suitable time, and make a plan for visiting with your children to ensure they truly enjoy the visit.
Steps
Part 1
Learn about the museum- Also find out the museum's opening hours on holidays and weekends.
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Find out the cost entrance tickets. The museum's website usually lists the price for adult and child tickets, so calculate the cost for your group. If you can't pay by card at the museum, this should be stated on the website, so read all the notes carefully and don't forget to take cash.
Choose suitable transport. IN major cities a trip to the museum comes with a high parking fee. It is better to use public transport such as a bus or train. Also, plan a route to reduce the amount of walking, as you will be walking around the museum a lot.
Come on a full stomach and in comfortable clothes. You should eat before visiting the museum so that you are not distracted by hunger. Choose comfortable clothes and especially shoes with comfortable insoles or arch supports, since you will spend almost all the time in the museum on your feet.
Choose a museum that suits your interests. There are museums of art, history, information, war, weapons, transport, science, livestock, theater and many other types. Make a list interesting topics or subjects that you liked during your studies. Then find themed museum in your own or a neighboring city - so you will look forward to visiting.
Visit the museum website. Today, many museums have acquired online platforms that allow you to take a virtual tour of the object. Select a museum that suits you and find out about exhibits and events (exhibitions, tours, lectures) scheduled for the day of your visit.
Find out the museum's opening hours. Check the museum's opening hours. At the very beginning and end of the working day there are usually the fewest visitors, but if you go to the museum before closing, you will have to rush and risk missing out on exhibits that interest you.
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Walk around the museumRead information about the exhibits. Almost every museum has posters or plaques with important information about each exhibit. You probably won't have the time (or inclination) to read every sign. Read information about the selected exhibits, and if you have time, pay attention to other notable examples.
Listen to the audio guide. When purchasing entrance tickets, inquire about the availability of audio guides. Many museums offer electronic devices with soundtracks for a small fee. Thanks to the audio guide, you will get a more detailed understanding of the exhibits without having to read the information on each plaque.
Take a group tour. Some museums offer free tours that start at certain time. As a rule, you need to come to the meeting point and join the group, but sometimes you need to register or pay for such a service separately. Find out the necessary information on the website or at the museum ticket office.
Discuss your favorite exhibits with your fellow travelers. Chat with friends and relatives who came with you. Find out which painting or fossil they liked best. Provide new information that surprised you. This good way talk to your companions and better understand the exhibition.
Take frequent breaks. If the museum has chairs or benches, feel free to sit on them at the first sign of fatigue. Does the museum have a cafeteria? Order drinks and chat with friends before continuing your exploration.
Part 4
Prepare your children for the visitChoose a museum with activities for children. Museums often have special sections for children, but small, highly specialized museums may not offer additional entertainment. Choose a children's museum, an aquarium, a natural history museum or a planetarium. Museums of war or military equipment are best avoided if your child is not old enough to understand complex information.
Tell your children about the rules of behavior in advance. Explain the basic rules: in the museum you are not allowed to shout, touch exhibits, or run through the aisles. If the child wants to touch, then say that if each of the million visitors touched the painting, then nothing would be left of it. Show kids interactive exhibits you can touch, including an aquarium or dolphinarium show.
The first museum in England opened in 1683 at Oxford University. The entrance fee was taken at the exit, and it was taken depending on how much time the visitor spent in the halls of the museum.
10th place: Museum of Napkins. In this museum you can see napkins: “Imperial” – 1m by 1m or “Court” – 70:70 cm. (Regular size 25:25 or 50:50 cm)
9th place: In the German city of Marktoberdorf there is a museum of mousetraps, where you can see both the simplest ancient traps and modern electronic traps.
8th place: A mafia museum opened not long ago in a small Italian town. True, the mayor of the city, Pippo Cipriani, prefers to call it an archive where documents and videotapes are collected. The University of Palermo plans to hold annual conferences there on the mafia. By the way, the city is called Corleone.
7th place: In the Rostov region, on the initiative of the regional police department, a museum of serial killers and maniacs was opened.
6th place: The Museum of Unusual Skis in Oslo contains not only skis of an unusual design, but also objects that are very strange at first glance: tar, resin, fat, vegetable and olive oil, cheese and salted herring - everything that was used to rub the skis.
5th place: Located in Delhi unique museum. The inscription at its entrance reads: "...Here, in deep thought, chaplains pondered when they were destined to become bishops, debits and credits were settled, secret meetings took place. Here, in clouds of tobacco smoke, reformers built daring projects..." This is a museum of toilets .
4th place: In the city of St. Louis (Missouri) there is " National Museum medical quackery." (It displays such exhibits as an "organic energy accumulator", a "security belt", orchis tubers, and a mouse tooth.)
3rd place: The Museum of Forgeries was opened in London in the early 90s of the last century, where, naturally, fake paintings and sculptures are exhibited. Most exhibits are made up of errors by the British Museum, as well as other museums and galleries. True, the exhibition never included exhibits from private individuals involved in collecting: they are embarrassed to admit their mistakes.
2nd place: A museum of school punishments recently opened in Uruguay.
1st place: Museum of Panties. The creator of this unusual museum Belgian Jean Bouquet believes that there is nothing more democratic and anti-militaristic, since in shorts everyone looks equal, and you can’t fight in them. Recently Bouquet sent out requests to 500 prominent people to send their exhibits to his museum. By the way, if today an ancient Greek would find himself in the “Greek hall” of any of our museums, he would decide that he had entered the kingdom of spirits: the Greeks always painted their statues, and did not leave them white. And if you are going to a museum, then do not forget the advice of Ramona de la Serna: “Do not take your child to a museum antique sculpture! Otherwise he will ask you why his leaf hasn’t grown..."
25. National Museum Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, New Zealand)
swancraig/instagram.comNational Museum of New Zealand focuses on history island state and the culture of its indigenous population - the Maori. Nature lovers will be pleased with the huge collection of dinosaurs, birds, fish, insects and even mythical creatures- for example, orcs. And all because it was in New Zealand that Peter Jackson filmed the famous film trilogy “The Lord of the Rings”.
24. Museum of Latin American Art (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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The museum's exposition is devoted mainly to works of Latin American art of the 20th century: on the ground floor there are works modern masters, and on the second - more early painting. Almost all the exhibits are owned by Argentine philanthropist Eduardo Constantini.
23. Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum (Xi'an, China)
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The Great Wall and the Terracotta Army are one of the most recognizable symbols of China, the construction of which took place during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the unified Chinese state. The powerful ruler saw in them a stronghold of the security of his country and the continuation of personal power in the afterlife. It is noteworthy that among the figures there are no identical warriors: they all differ in rank, weapons used and facial expression.
22. Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel)
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The Holocaust Memorial Complex is located on Mount Herzl in western Jerusalem. Everlasting memory about the disaster and a tribute to all fighters against fascism.
21. National Gallery of Art (Washington, USA)
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The complex consists of a sculpture garden and two buildings connected by an underground passage. The museum's collection displays a myriad of works of art from different eras and styles. By the way, a considerable part of the exhibits are Hermitage masterpieces purchased by American connoisseurs of beauty from the Soviet authorities.
20. Inhotim (Brumadinho, Brazil)
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Art objects under the canopy of primeval forests? Why not! Objects in the Brazilian park-museum contemporary art placed directly in the open air. Of course, there are also closed exhibition centers of the of different nature. Bright Inhotim is often called “Disneyland for adults.”
19. Ricardo Brennand Institute (Recife, Brazil)
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The cultural center is owned by the Brazilian collector Ricardo Brennand and includes a museum, art gallery, library and park. A considerable number of exhibits are dedicated to the colonial era of Brazil. Special interest tourists are attracted by the impressive collection of weapons.
18. National Air and Space Museum (Washington, USA)
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The Smithsonian Institution Research Center is a real outlet for those who, for whatever reason, cannot become a pilot or. Under the high arches of the museum, unique examples of real aircraft and spacecraft are collected.
17. Getty Center (Los Angeles, California)
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The Getty complex will delight its visitors amazing architecture with stunning views of Los Angeles. The museum displays works by European photographers, sculptors and artists. The adjacent park is famous for the unique murmur of its waterfall. The research institute hosts training sessions and exhibitions.
16. Pergamon Museum (Berlin, Germany)
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The museum's exhibition is divided into three blocks: the Ancient Collection, the Museum of Islamic Art and the Western Asian Museum. Monumental works of architecture, sculpture, mosaics, relief and writing with a very difficult fate are presented here. The fact is that the bombing of Berlin during the Second World War affected the Pergamon Museum, as a result of which part of the collection was transported and has not yet been returned.
15. National World War II Museum (New Orleans, USA)
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The opening of the museum was timed to coincide with the 56th anniversary of the strategic landing of troops in France in 1944. The atrium of the building displays military equipment that contributed to the Allied victory in World War II.
14. Academy of Fine Arts (Florence, Italy)
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Within the walls of the first Academy of Painting in Europe you can see internationally recognizable objects of art, for example, Michelangelo’s “David”. Don't like sculpture? Anyway, don’t pass by: tourists who adapt to naked stone bodies in an original way will amuse you a lot.
13. Vincent Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Beauty has no price, but we have repeatedly heard about the fabulous sums for which paintings by the famous Dutch post-impressionist artist are sold. In addition to the works of the master himself, the museum exhibits works by his equally famous contemporaries: Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso.
12. British Museum (London, UK)
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Over the centuries, colonists from the British Empire discovered the most hidden corners of the planet and grabbed interesting “souvenirs” from there, which later became exhibits in the second most visited museum in the world. Huge collection covers the most different eras, cultures and arts.
11. New Acropolis Museum (Athens, Greece)
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The complex, expensive and lengthy construction of the museum was due to two interrelated reasons. Firstly, greek history has accumulated an excessive amount of artifacts. Secondly, the British did not want to return the stolen historical and cultural values, citing the fact that they had nowhere to display and store them. In the end, I still had to give it away.
10. National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico City, Mexico)
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The culture of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica is shrouded in a haze of fantasy, ideas about their bloodthirstiness and unprecedented wealth. How true all this is, you can appreciate in the main museum of Mexico, where the ancient values of such powerful civilizations of the past, such as the Mayans or Aztecs, are presented.
9. Vasa Museum (Stockholm, Sweden)
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The most visited museum in Scandinavia was built around the ship Vasa, which belonged to the Swedish navy in the 17th century. This is the oldest warship that has survived to this day. And what helped him stand the test of time, oddly enough, was a very quick wreck during his first voyage. Submerged in low salinity waters, the ship was not eaten by sea worms.
8. Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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The central place in the exhibition of the museum, founded in 1808 by Louis Bonaparte, is occupied by paintings by Dutch masters of painting of the 15th–19th centuries. For example, here is Rembrandt’s “Night Watch” - a canvas measuring 363 by 437 cm, which is famous for its difficult history with attempts at destruction, a lot of mysteries and several mentions in films.
7. London National Gallery (London, UK)
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The art gallery receives about 6.5 million tourists annually. More than two thousand paintings are exhibited in chronological order, which helps an unprepared viewer follow the development Western European painting starting from the 13th century.
6. State Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia)
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A mecca for all guests of the Northern capital of Russia, with a mind-boggling number of exhibits, unimaginable decoration, as well as representative offices throughout the country and abroad.
5. Louvre (Paris, France)
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Trying to unravel the smile of “La Gioconda” through the lens of a smartphone is the sacred duty of every guest of Paris. To do this, you will have to look into the most popular art museum in the world. However, before your date with the painting by Leonardo da Vinci, you will have a photo session with the glass pyramid - the main entrance to the Louvre.
4. National Prado Museum (Madrid, Spain)
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Along with bright works art belonging to masters of the Flemish, English, German and French schools, the museum, of course, stores a rich collection of paintings by Spanish painters. Admirers of El Greco, Velazquez and Goya will be delighted.
3. Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA)
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The museum is also a higher art museum. educational institution The USA, where such creators as Walt Disney were educated. Of course, among the exhibits there are many examples of American art.
2. Orsay Museum (Paris, France)
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The museum's collection is housed in a former railway station. In addition to a rich array of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, visitors can enjoy wonderful views of the Parisian Seine here.
1. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
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In the “Big Apple” there’s already nowhere for an apple to fall, but here there are still millions of visitors running from one city attraction to another in order to get acquainted as quickly as possible. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will not work quickly: even a cursory acquaintance with some of the “miscellaneous” exhibits will take many hours.
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It's no secret that I don't like going to museums. For example, during a recent trip to Bilbao, I was not at all upset that... It’s written in my profile - I think they are more interesting on the outside than on the inside. Indeed, museums are usually located in very beautiful buildings! But the other day I made an exception to the rule and went to the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.
This largest museum art in America, and one of the most visited in the world (it is in third place after the Louvre and the British Museum). What did I, who especially don’t like going to art museums, do there? It turned out there was a lot to see here, even for me!
At the end of the post, I'll tell you how you can save a ton of money on entry. Not all tourists know about this!
Metro, which residents New York Abbreviated to "the Met" it is located on Fifth Avenue, between 80th and 84th streets. Technically, it is located on the territory of Central Park - when a group of New York magnates decided to organize this museum in 1870, the city agreed to allocate a trump space for it (the park was then less than 15 years old). Today the main façade of the museum, with its massive neo-classical arches and columns, is one of business cards upper Manhattan. There are fountains in front of the Met, and tourists and locals relax on its steps in good weather.
What drew me to the museum, contrary to all my principles and preferences? Of course it was Tonya. The fact is that she really loves going to museums, looking at art, and that’s all. And then Tony’s life ended, and she wanted to celebrate this matter. So it turns out that every couple of months she takes me out to some museum (most often during our trips).
Going to museums with her is interesting - it's like bringing your own personal guide. She shows me her favorite works and tells me why they are important and what is interesting about them. In general, Tonya is her own person in museums. Well, this is visible to the naked eye.
The metropolitan is huge. This is the so-called “encyclopedic museum”, which has a little bit of everything. There are 17 departments, each with its own curators, budget and museum space. There's everything from ancient Greek art to the impressionists and modern photographers. It is almost impossible to see everything at once, and even to walk through the entire museum superficially. I remember how back in 1999 we sdze We got to the Louvre - we walked around one small wing for two hours until we realized that we had to look at the Mona Lisa and leave. (This was before I realized that I didn't like going to museums.)
Every time Tonya goes to a museum, she reads what is on display there and makes a list of what she wants to see. This time the list included various paintings, but don't worry - I won't show them to you. I'll show you the dresses.
One of the famous departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is its Costume Institute. It became part of the main museum back in 1937, and today its collection includes more than 35,000 costumes and accessories. Due to the fragility of the collection, the Institute does not have a permanent exhibition; instead, they organize two special exhibitions a year, inventing each time new topic. The current exhibition is called "Fashion in the Age of Technology".
Here are presented outfits from the second half of the 20th century to the present day. These are the works of the world's most famous designers who began to experiment with various modern technologies in order to create your masterpieces.
Some designers use new synthetic materials, others design outfits entirely on the computer. Recently, dresses with elements made on 3D printers have begun to appear.
This is pregnant Wedding Dress- work by Karl Lagerfeld, for the Chanel fashion house.
Sequins and stitches of gold thread were placed on his train using computers to form a very intricate pattern. The dress is the main exhibit at the exhibition.
And here are the works of the famous Issey Miyake, a fashion designer from Japan. The funny thing is that if you lay these dresses out on a flat surface, they turn into simple geometric shapes - a circle, a square, etc.
Here are his less elegant works. More childish.
After half an hour of dresses, I protested.
“This is some kind of gender discrimination! Why are there all dresses and dresses here? Where is the men’s department?!”
“Probably, as usual,” Tonya answered me, “on another floor. Well, if you want, let me take you to it.”
And I didn’t deceive you!
There really was a department on the other floor men's fashion, yes such that I'm stuck on good hour. It turns out that the Metropolitan is famous for its collection of medieval armor and weapons, of which they have almost more than dresses. I would probably know about this if I loved museums.
This is where it occurred to me. (As with , first I try to find the answer myself.)
The fashion here is indeed very masculine. Just look at that armor with a built-in erection! This was probably supposed to instill fear in homophobic opponents on the battlefield.
There is also samurai armor here - which could not but please someone like me. It's funny that the Japanese put mustaches on their helmets!
I was impressed by the size of these medieval shields. I felt a little sorry for the infantrymen who had to drag them along.
This time Tonya had to pull me away from my favorite fashionistas.
We started walking from hall to hall. In the American wing of the museum, we passed a statue of a young girl - this is how the sculptor depicted California. Although in fact, the legendary California was an island of black Amazons. There is racism everywhere, they are trying to whitewash everyone.
In general, in this room you can clearly see how the museum is a gathering individual buildings and architectural styles. The huge glazed space has nothing in common with the neoclassical façade. And here is another piece of another palace in greek style sticks out. And galleries, sculptures, columns...
By the way, on the outside, all these glasses serve as mirrors. Look how beautifully it is reflected in them (it stands right behind the museum building).
As a result, Tonya led me to the roof of the museum. The Metropolitan is beautiful because it has a special observation deck on the roof, on which there is a café-bar. You can take a glass of champagne and stand enjoying the views.
The views from here are good - not only of midtown, but also of Central Park. Sometimes the museum is open late enough that you can watch the sunset from its roof. Highly recommend.
Another good thing about the museum roof is that every summer some special art object is installed here. This year, Englishwoman Cornelia Parker decided to build a small house on the roof.
I loved Carlson since childhood (and what Soviet child didn’t love him?!) and really wanted to see the real embodiment of the house on the roof. After all, it is clearly visible from the park - from a distance it looks very cozy on the roof of the museum.
But in fact, this house has nothing to do with Carlson - it has a much more sinister origin. According to the artist, she sought to recreate something purely American on the roof of the museum, but for some reason her thoughts kept returning to the classic thriller “Psycho,” about a madman who killed the guests of his motel. In that film there was a mansion that the artist remembered, and it was this that she tried to reproduce.
I must say that she succeeded quite well. The “house” on the roof is almost a replica of that house from the movie. The project is called "PsychoBarn".
It is also interesting that, remaining true to her inspiration, Parker built not real home, but a dummy house that can only be viewed from one side. In fact, there are only two corner walls, behind which there is a frame made of metal pipes and water cylinders, so that the structure is not blown away by the wind.
Here's a visit to a museum - with dresses, knights, and a house of horrors. Have you been to the Met? What did you like there?
Oh yes, I almost forgot! I promised to tell you how to save money. The fact is that there you have to buy a ticket at the entrance, and above the ticket office it says “Suggested Admission: $25” - many people don’t look attentively and just give the cashier exactly that amount. But what it really means is “recommended contribution.” That is, it is not mandatory. You can give less - for example, you can give $10, or $5. Maybe even $2! The Metropolitan's policy is this: everyone gives as much as they can afford.
Just don’t forget that the museum exists on these donations, and don’t be greedy!
Moscow is a city-museum. Calculating their exact number is not an easy task. But there are pearls in the museum gallery, the exhibitions and collections of which are a national, intellectual, and creative heritage. And you definitely need to visit them.
See the greatness of luxury and enjoy the play of brilliance and light and shade in the precious radiance of facets. The Kremlin's Diamond Fund - a treasury of monarchical symbols of power, masterpieces of jewelry from the 18th to 20th centuries, unique gems and precious stones, rare examples of native gold and platinum - will give its visitors such an opportunity.
The Diamond Fund exposition consists of 2 halls, where history and Jewelry Art intertwined together. Historical state regalia include the Great and Small Imperial Crowns, the scepter, and the “Royal Apple.”
Collectible “7 historical stones”: legendary diamonds “Shah”, “Orlov”, flat portrait, 7 cm 2 in area; giant emerald, peridot, sapphire, spinel surprise with their size and natural purity.
Among the 100 gold nuggets: “Great Triangle” - the largest in the world, an inimitable miniature “Mephistopheles”. Historically precious awards and insignia, a map of Russia made from a scattering of small diamonds...
This treasury-museum of Russian cultural heritage is known all over the world. The Armory Chamber is one of the oldest Russian museums, created in 1806 on the basis of the “Armory Vault” of unique collections.
4 thousand exhibits housed in 9 halls of a building from the mid-nineteenth century. Rare decorative items applied arts Russia, Western European and Asian countries, starting from the 5th century. until modern times.
Here are collections of weapons and defensive armor of the Russian army, which were in service in the 12th - early 19th centuries. 19th centuries, gold and silver dishes decorated with precious stones, embroidery with gold and pearls, secular costume of the 16th-19th centuries, a unique collection of works by Russian jewelers (12th – early 20th centuries), gifts to Russian tsars and royal attributes (thrones, regalia , robes, carriages).
The Battle of Borodino Panorama Museum opened in 1962 near Victory Park. Its “round” building on Kutuzovsky Prospekt is easily recognizable. At the entrance to the museum, visitors are greeted by a monument to Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky. Yes, yes, precisely to Mikhail Illarionovich, who received the last prefix to his surname after the Patriotic War of 1812.
The basis of the complex is a panorama of the Battle of Borodino, 15 m high and 115 m long, above which F.A. Roubaud worked for 11 months and completed it on the 100th anniversary of the historical event.
4 sectors show individual moments of the historical battle. Each of them has an interactive terminal that describes the plot.
The panorama museum is also a collection of military historical paintings: portraits of M.I. Kutuzov, P.I. Bagration, Alexander I and others; battle scenes – “The Feat of Raevsky’s Soldiers” by N. Samokish, “The Battle of Levenberg” unknown artist, “Battle for Smolensk” by Y. Averyanov and others.
Visitors will also see collections of medals and tokens, weapons of the Russian and French armies.
In a former factory building on Rogozhsky Val, on an area of 7,500 m2, there is the largest museum of retro cars in the capital with collection exhibits revealing the history of the domestic and world automotive industry. Once the Motors of October Museum, today it presents an impressive collection of 3,000 thousand cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and related paraphernalia.
Russian and foreign automobile “families”: prestigious “Packards” - there were only 4 of them in the USSR; “Lincolns”, “Fords”, “Mercedes”, “Cadillacs”, “ZISes”, “Muscovites”, “Volgas”, “Cossacks”, military and special equipment, curious “Amphibious capsule” work of an unknown craftsman, created from aviation fuel tank and with a frying pan instead of a steering wheel, a German “Zundap Janus” with doors in place of the trunk and bumper we are used to, an engine and a gas tank in the cabin, a three-wheeled solar car “Minisol” and much more you can see by visiting this museum.
This one has no time secret object with an area of 7000 m2, it has no analogues in the world and is the only one of its kind. "Bunker 42" - called the Cold War Museum, is located underground at a depth of 60 m. Construction time from 1950 to 1956.
Initially, the bunker housed a reserve command and aviation post, telegraph, radio center, geodetic laboratory, etc. The staff exceeded 2.5 thousand people. The facility had everything needed in case of nuclear war.
A 6 m thick concrete dome, “hidden” in the frame of an ordinary two-story building, protects the entrance to Bunker-42. For secrecy, lights were turned on in the house in the evenings, which were visible through pseudo-windows. Hermetic doors, a sliding slab, 1 m thick, close the direct entrance to a stairwell with a diameter of 6 m. This design can reliably protect the room from a nuclear blast wave
The excursion program of the tourist site offers visitors: a walk through the tunnels of the bunker; visiting a mini-museum of samples of small arms, personal protective equipment from the USSR era, and communications equipment; watching a film about the Cold War.
Bunker-42 has a cinema hall, a cafe and a restaurant. Large areas allow for presentation and exhibition events, conferences, receptions, and entertaining games.
This fun museum will be interesting to both adults and children. Photography is not prohibited here, but rather encouraged. In the museum optical illusions at VDNKh, each visitor is a direct participant in painting installations created by the best Russian prop makers and artists.
Pavilion No. 55 at VDNKh offers everyone who wants to tame a lion and play with a tiger, climb the spire of the Ostankino TV tower, find themselves on the Titanic or in a three-meter giant boot, escape from ferocious crocodiles, feel like an exhibit in the Kunstkamera, sing on stage with the Beatles and much more.
Children have the opportunity to catch Uncle Scrooge's coin, swing on a swing in the company of the Simpson family, and meet their favorite cartoon characters.
The museum will introduce visitors to sketches of unique sets used in the filming of various films, with the secrets of creating visual effects transformation into a movie, with the skill of applying unusual actor's makeup.
The pride of the museum is its collection of retro cars. The restored cars are all running. “Volga” from “Beware of the Car”, “Mercedes” by Stirlitz, the old “Magirus” - on the move since 1912 and reaching a speed of 70 km/h.
Actor's costumes, known to us from our favorite films: Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich from L. Gaidai's comedy, famous fairy tale characters from the films of A. Rowe, ballroom dresses of society ladies...
Once on film set museum for a short time to visit old Moscow, and Ancient Rus', and St. Petersburg from the times of Peter the Great.
Eminent Art Museum, founded in the middle of the 19th century by the merchant P. Tretyakov, represents one of the largest and most significant world collections of Russian fine and decorative arts, sculpture, graphics (XI - early XXI centuries)
The artistic treasury contains a rich collection of ancient Russian painting (XI-XVII centuries): masterpieces by A. Savrasov, V. Perov, V. Vasnetsov, I. Shishkin, V. Polenov, I. Repin, V. Surikov, inimitable canvases by V. Serov, I. Levitan, M. Vrubel, B. Kustodiev, works by Soviet and post-Soviet period: Kukryniksy, P. Korina, V. Mukhina, T. Yablonskaya and others.
The initial collection of the Tretyakov Gallery consisted of 1287 paintings, 518 drawings, 9 sculptures. The current museum collection consists of more than 100 thousand storage units.
The largest natural science european museum was founded in 1907 by zoologist A. Kots. At the beginning of the twentieth century - it was the first and the only museum, talking about evolution.
Exhibitions at the State University tell about everything related to the theory of evolution. Darwin Museum. Visitors will get acquainted with the history of the formation of evolutionary theory, its main provisions and criteria: heredity, variability, natural selection, the struggle for existence; about the various forms of life on Earth.
The exposition of the Darwin Museum is 5000 m2 of area, more than 345 thousand exhibits. The collections of animals with unusual colors, stuffed extinct birds, shark teeth of once extinct mammals, and stuffed exotic birds are unique. Presented rare books and works of animal art.
Interactive panels and “educational guides” will help visitors independently study the museum’s exhibition sections. The innovative exposition “River of Time” and the multimedia center “Eco-Moscow” are interesting. The interactive exhibition “Walk the Path of Evolution” has no analogues. The biology club and art studio are open to young intellectuals and artists.
The Paleontological Museum in Moscow is one of the largest in the world. Its founder was Yu.A. Orlov, whose name the museum bears. In 1987, the first visitors saw an attractive and mysterious world prehistoric plants and animals.
4 exhibition zones located in 6 halls, each of which represents a separate chronological stage in the development of life on the planet.
The introductory hall is crowned with a colorful ceramic panel “Tree of Life”, with an area of about 500 m2. Made from mirror slabs, it creates the illusion of an all-consuming abyss. The ceramic compositions “Sea Lilies” and “Birth of the Sea” reflect in all their glory the artist’s fantasies about the ancient seas.
Early stages of life on Earth. The first inhabitants of the planet. Hidden and strange forms of life in the Cryptozoic (Precambrian). Shells and mollusks, sea anemones, corals, sea acorns...
Hall of Geology and Paleontology of the Moscow Region. The next room/stage – the evolution and taxonomy of vertebrates of the Paleozoic era is presented in all its diversity. Lots of display cases and display tables. A group of skeletons of prehistoric animals with unpronounceable names...
Fossil giants of the Mesozoic era feel comfortable in the next room. The exhibition occupies two floors, since the impressive size of the skeletons does not fit in a one-story building.
The last room is dedicated to the evolution of mammals. Cenozoic period. Giant deer and rhinoceros, saber-toothed tiger skull and others Decorative design, historical reconstructions...
When people say “Pushkin Museum” they most often mean State Museum fine arts them. A.S. Pushkin on Volkhonka, which was officially opened in 1912. Initially, the museum was conceived as a public and educational repository of artistic copies, casts of classical creations of world art at Moscow University.
Current collection Pushkin Museum has more than 560,000 units of applied art and painting in exhibitions and funds; artistic photography; monuments of numismatics, archeology, antiquity; sculptures, graphics. Both copies and originals are presented. The pride of the museum is priceless paintings Botticelli, Picasso, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh... Sculptures by Michelangelo, Rodin, Doré... Engravings by Durer, Rubens, Matisse...
The 26 halls of the Gallery display collections of works from various art historical movements of the 19th–20th centuries, as well as personal art exhibitions.
The Department of Personal Collections has collected more than 7 thousand exhibits of art from the 15th to 20th centuries. Russian and Western European masters from 30 private collections received by the museum from donors.
The famous monument to the Conquerors of Space at VDNKh. In the basement of the building there is a Museum of Cosmonautics, created for the 20th anniversary of the first man's flight into space, covering all stages of the formation and achievements of Soviet and foreign cosmonautics.
Museum exhibits are the best examples of rocket and space technology, archival relics, personal belongings of astronauts and famous designers, collections of philately and numismatics, paintings and graphics, subject literature. Exposition of S.P.’s office Queen, original notes and letters from K. Tsiolkovsky.
Museum area – more than 4300 m2, 8 exhibition halls, 93 thousand exhibits. There is a conference room and a cinema hall, a thematic library, a small cafe, and a Space Veterans Club.
Among the most interesting exhibits is a fragment of the Mir station, where “dared souls” can feel like space explorers; models of artificial Earth satellites and space stations, launch vehicles, orbital ships, space capsules; stuffed animals of the legendary Belka and Strelka; Lunokhod, food in tubes, etc.
The museum and exhibition complex in Monino consists of open parking areas and more than 5500 m2 of museum, exhibition, interactive halls, 2 hangar halls. This is the richest collection of military and civil aviation equipment, samples aircraft, exclusive photographic materials and rare documents, samples of uniforms and personal belongings of aviators.
37 thousand museum exhibits are bombers, attack aircraft, fighters; training aircraft and small aircraft; exclusive models and equipment that has not become serial; giant helicopters and cruise missiles; rescue equipment and aircraft weapons.
On the territory of the Air Force Museum there is a technical restoration workshop, a conference room, a reading room in the technical military history library, a cafe, a souvenir shop and a children's playground.
