The State Tretyakov Gallery Phone: (495) 230-77-88, 951-1362, 238-1378 Address: 119017, Moscow, 10, Lavrushinskii Peryulok Location: Metro stations: 'Tretyakovskaya' or 'Novokuznetskaya' Working hours: Open every day except Monday, 10am - 7.30pm. The ticket office is open 10am - 6.30pm. Internet: www.russianmuseums.info/M281 - official web page -  www.tretyakovgallery.ru/   Description:     The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is one of the largest museums in Russia with over 100 000 works of art - icons, paintings, graphics and sculpture - spanning the entire history of Russian art. Its collection of Russian realism from the second half of the 19th century is the best in the country.     The Gallery collection was started by Pavel Tretyakov, the owner of a successful textile firm, and became famous from the minute it was opened to the public in 1870. After Tretyakov's death the gallery's collection grew rapidly, especially after the October Revolution when museum collections were privatised: art was bought, donated or "transferred" from other museums, private collections, cathedrals and monasteries. The latest part of the collection, dating from 1950 - 1990, opened recently, on 25th May 2000.   Museum's building(s): The central facade of the gallery's main building dates from 1902-1904 and was designed by the famous Russian painter V.Vasnetsov. Museum's services: museum shop, lecture hall, museum's caffe, equipped for invalid visitors Next to the museum there are: restaurant(s) or caffes

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Phone: (495) 203-7998, 203-9578, 203-7412 Address: 121019, Moscow, 12, Ulitsa Volkchonka Location: metro station 'Kropotinskaya' Working hours: The museum is open every day except Monday, 10am - 7pm Internet: www.russianmuseums.info/M296 - official web page -  www.museum.ru/gmii/   Description:     The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has one of the most representative collection in Russia of foreign art dated from ancient times to modern days. The exposition of the Museum includes today a vast collection of tinted plaster casts of famous ancient, medieval and Renaissance sculptures and a collection of original works of foreign artists, sculptors and graphics together with objects of decorative arts. The rooms of the ground floor present mainly the original works: works of art of Ancient Egypt, antiquities, European paintings of the VII-XVIII centuries; two halls - Italian and Greek courtyards are housing casts. On the first floor there are rooms with casts of Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages and Renaissance. The rooms of painting acquaint the public with the art of the XIXth and XXth centuries.   Museum's building(s): The museum was especially designed, by the architect P Klein, to resemble an ancient temple with its typical facade and columns of that style. Museum's services:  museum shop, lecture hall, museum's caffe, equipped for invalid visitors

Federal State Institution "State Historical-cultural Museum-preserve "The Moscow Kremlin" Phone: +7 (495) 203-0349 Address: 103073, Moscow, Kremlin Location: Any of the following metro stations: Biblioteka im. Lenina, Alexsandrovskii Sad, Borovitskaya, Arbatskaya, Teatralnaya, Ploshad Revolutsii, Okhotny Ryad Working hours: Open daily, except Thursday, 10am - 6pm Internet:    www.russianmuseums.info/M287 - official web page -  www.kreml.ru   Description:     State Historical-cultural Museum-preserve "The Moscow Kremlin" was formed in 1991 on the basis of State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin. It is located in the center of Moscow, on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin. The Moscow Kremlin is one of the largest architectural ensembles of the world, including monuments built over the time from late XV to XX centuries. Historically the Moscow Kremlin has been the residence of power and in our days it is the residence of the Russian President. It is a unique museum complex including cathedrals-museums: the Assumption Cathedral, the Archangel Cathedral, the Annunciation Cathedral, the Church of the Deposition of the Robe of the Holy Virgin, the Palace of Patriarch of the XVII century with the Church of the Twelve Apostles, the bell tower of Ivan the Great with the belfry and the State Armory Chamber - the treasury. A special exposition located in the basement of the Annunciation Cathedral displays the materials on the archaeology of the Kremlin. The Museums of the Kremlin preserve unique works of art of different genres, which illustrate parade ceremonial of secular and clerical rulers' courts. Buildings, which host the museums, are unique architectural edifices of different schools and epochs erected by distinguished architects and masters. These buildings preserve splendid interiors of XVI-XVII and mid-XIX centuries. Museum's services: museum shop, lecture hall Next to the museum there are: hotels and restaurants

The State Darwin Museum Phone: (495) 135-3382 (автоответчик), 132-1047, 134-6124 Address: 117292, Moscow, 57, Vavilova street Location: Nearest metro station: Akademicheskaya. Or take trolleybus 39 or 14 from metro stations Universitet or Leninskii Prospect Working hours:  Open daily, except Mondays and the last Friday of every month, from 10am to 6pm   Internet:    www.russianmuseums.info/M285 - official web page -  www.darwin.museum.ru Description:     The State Darwin Museum was established in 1907 by Alexander Kots, one of the first lecturers on Darwinism to work in Moscow. At that time it was the only museum of evolution in the world. . A specific feature of the Darwin Museum is that all its many exhibits are united in their one purpose: presenting a complete scientific picture of the evolution of the living world. There is a large display showing the variety of wildlife on earth, with animals from all climatic zones from the North Pole to the South. In another gallery you can follow the development of biology as a science from ancient times to the present. A large part of the collection is devoted to the question of the origin of Man, as well as the evolution of behaviour, the relationship between Man and Nature and of course its future. Museum's services:   museum shop, lecture hall, museum's caffe

   

"Kolomenskoye" XVI-XIX Century Museum-Area of Russian Arts, Architecture and landscape Phone: (499) 615-2768, 614-8880 Address: 154387, Moscow, 39, Prospect Andropova Location: Metro Station: Kolomenskoe Working hours: Every day, except Mondays, 10.30am - 6pm Internet:   www.russianmuseums.info/M304 - official web page -  www.mgomz.ru Description:     The Village of Kolomenskoye was mentioned for the first time in the will of the Grand Prince Ivan Kalita of Moscow in 1339, and it was at that time the favourite summer country residence of government members. The most ancient architectural monument of Kolomenskoye is the Church of the Ascention (1532), which was registered by UNESCO in 1994 as a monument of great artistic and historical value. Also important are the valuable monuments of wooden architecture from different regions of Russia that have been transferred and installed here. Kolomenskoye attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors, in particular because the museum has live dramatised performances of historical events and boat excursions on the Moscow River.   Museum's services:   museum shop, museum's caffe, playground, theatre Museum has:   theartre, folk group