THE PUSHKIN STATE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is one of the largest museums in Russia. It was founded in 1898 by Professor Ivan Tsvetaev and opened to the public on the 31st of May 1912 as 1 Statue of 2 Cuneiform tablet 2 Seal of the 3 Large Diadem with 4 Red-figured krater 5 Statue of the Ruler the Emperor Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts of Moscow the reighn of Amenemhat III with the text of two Pendants with Hermes and the of Gorgippia University. Nowadays the museum shows to the visitors Ancient Egypt elegies Artaxerxes III Troy. Priam’s Treasure Infant Dionysus Bosporus Civilization Middle – second half Mesopotamia, Nippur. (358–338 BC) 2400–2200 BC Attica 80s of the 2nd century AD and keeps paintings, sculptures, graphics, arts and crafts, of the 19th century BC Circa 1700 BC 460–450 BC archaeological and numismatic artefacts, art photography. The richest collection of the museum comprises more than 670 000 works from the ancient to contemporary art.
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6 Portrait of an 7 Giovanni Antonio 7 Agnolo Bronzino 7 Sandro Botticelli 7 Sandro Botticelli 8 Lucas Cranach the М KREMLIN Elderly Man Boltraffio The Holy Family with Archangel Gabriel Virgin Mary Elder Borovitskaya Aleksandrovsky М sad Egypt, Faiyum Portrait of a Boy the Infant Saint John 1495–1498 (Annunciation) Madonna with Child Biblioteka Second half of the 1st as Saint Sebastian the Baptist 1495–1498 (Madonna in a Grape im. Lenina ZNAMENKA ST. century AD Late 1490s (Madonna Stroganoff) Arbor) MOKHOVAYA ST.
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9 Anthonis van Dyck 9 Frans Snyders 9 Peter Paul Rubens 10 Rembrandt 11 Pieter de Hoogh 17 Canaletto 1 Main Building Lady D’Aubigny and the Fish shop Bacchanalia Harmenszoon van Rijn A Sick Child (Giovanni Antonio 2 Gallery of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art Countess of Portland 1616–1618 Circa 1615 Portrait of an Old Woman 1670–1674 Canal) Late 1638–early 1639 1654 Bucentaur’s return to 3 Museion Educational Center the Pier by the Palazzo Ducale. 1727–1729 THE PUSHKIN STATE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 12, 14 VOLKHONKA STREET, MOSCOW MAIN BUILDING The nearest metro stations: Kropotkinskaya, Arbatskaya, Borovitskaya, Biblioteka im. Lenina, Alexandrovsky Sad FLOOR PLAN Information: +7 (495) 697 95 78 Excursion booking: +7 (495) 697 74 12 (opening hours – from Tuesday to Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday from 11 a.m to 5 p.m.) www.pushkinmuseum.art Museum’s on-line gift shop: www.artsmuseumshop.ru 18 Bartolome Esteban 22 François Boucher 23 Antoine Jean Gros 23 Jean-Baptiste- 23 Jean-François 23 Jean-Baptiste Murillo Jupiter and Callisto Equestrian Portrait of Simeon Chardin van Dael Greuze Girl Selling Fruits 1744 Prince Boris Yusupov Still Life with the Offering Flore The First Furrow General sponsor 1650–1660 1809 Attributes of the Arts 1799 1801 of The Pushkin State Museum
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MAIN BUILDING GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR SECOND FLOOR
The permanent display in the Main Building comprises art from various countries and from a period spanning antiquity to the beginning of the 19th century. It includes an extensive collection of plaster casts of sculpture from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as well as original paintings, i INFORMATION sculpture, graphics, arts and crafts. Of particular interest are FRIENDS OF THE PUSHKIN MUSEUM the Ancient Egyptian collection; Priam’s Treasure, discovered TICKET OFFICE by Heinrich Schliemann at the site of Troy; and works by leading European artists such as Botticelli, Rembrandt, GUIDED TOURS Rubens, El Greco, Poussin and Watteau. The Main Building was AUDIO GUIDE designed by the architect Roman Klein and constructed at the MUSEUM SHOP turn of the 20th century. An important role in immersion in particular historical era is played by museum interiors — the CAFE architectural design of the halls corresponds to the exhibits CLOAKROOM presented in them. LOCKERS Сontinuation of the museum’s exposition — at the Gallery of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art. TOILET 16 Art of Ancient Greece 16a Aegean Art 17 Italian Art STAIRS of the 17th and 18th centuries 18 Spanish and Italian 1 Art of Ancient Egypt 2 Art of Ancient Middle East Art of the 17th century 19,20 Temporary Exhibitions 3 Ancient Troy and Shliemann’s Excavations 4 Art of 21 French Art of the 17th century 22 French Art of Antiquity. Cyprus. Ancient Greece. Etruria. Ancient Rome the first half of the 18th century 23 French Art of the Opening hours of the Main Building While in the museum please do not: 5 Art of the Northern Black Sea Region 6 Hellenistic and second half of the 18th century – first third of the 19th (12, Volkhonka st.): • touch the exhibits Roman Egypt. Coptic Art 7 Byzantine Art. Italian Art of century 24 Greek Art: Classicism and Hellenism 25 Art Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday — from 11:00 • talk on your mobile phone the 8th to 16th centuries 8 German and Netherlandish Art of Italy in Ancient Times and Ancient Rome 26 European to 20:00, Ticket office and Entrance — to 19:00 • take flash photography, use selfie stick of the 15th and 16th centuries 9 Flemish Art of the 17th Medieval Art 27 Netherlandish and German Sculpture Thursday, Friday — from 11:00 to 21:00, Please leave your overclothes in the cloakroom century 10 Rembrandt and his School 11 Dutch Art of of the 15th and 16th centuries 28 Italian Sculpture of the Ticket office and Entrance — to 20:00 and any large items (more than 30×40×20 cm) the 17th century 14 The Greek Courtyard 15 The Italian 15th century 29 Michelangelo’s Sculpture 30 Temporary Closed on Mondays at the lockers Courtyard 31 Temporary Exhibitions Exhibitions