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THE PUSHKIN STATE OF FINE

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is one of the largest in . It was founded in 1898 by 23 Antoine Jean Gros Professor and opened to the public on 31 May 22 François Boucher Equestrian Portrait of 18 Bartolome Estebán 1912 as the Emperor Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts Jupiter and Callisto. 1744 Prince Boris Yusupov Murillo of University. The collection comprises more than 1809 Girl Selling Fruits 6 Funerary Shroud with the 670 000 objects and includes , , graphics, 1650–1660 Image of a Young Man arts and craſts, photography, archaeological and numismatic Roman Egypt artefacts. 2nd A.D. 1 Statue of Amenemhat III Ancient Egypt Middle – second half of the 19th century B.C.

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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 , sculpture, graphics, arts and crafts. Of particular interest are the Ancient Egyptian collection; Priam’s Treasure, discovered i INFORMATION by Heinrich Schliemann at the site of Troy; and works by FRIENDS OF THE leading European artists such as Botticelli, Rembrandt, TICKET OFFICE Rubens, El Greco, Poussin and Watteau. The Main Building was designed by the architect and constructed at the GUIDED TOURS turn of the 20th century. The rooms were specially designed AUDIO GUIDE for the works shown within them. MUSEUM SHOP The museum has two other buildings, the Gallery of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art and the CAFE Department of Privet Collections. CLOAKROOM LOCKERS a 16 Art of Ancient Greece 16 Aegean Art 17 Italian Art of TOILET the 17th and 18th centuries 18 Spanish and Italian Art of STAIR 1 Art of Ancient Egypt 2 Art of Ancient Middle East 3 Ancient the 17th century 19, 20 Temporary Exhibitions 21 French Troy and Shliemann’s Excavations 4 Art of Antiquity. Cyprus. Art of the 17th century 22 French Art of the first half of Ancient Greece. Etruria. Ancient Rome 5 Art of the Northern the 18th century 23 French Art of the second half of the Opening hours: While in the museum please do not: Black Sea Region 6 Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. Coptic Art 18th century – first third of the 19th century 24 Greek Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday — from 11 a.m. • touch the exhibits 7 Byzantine Art. Italian Art of the 13th to 16th centuries Art: Classicism and Hellenism 25 Art of in Ancient to 8 p.m., Ticket office — to 7 p.m. • take flash photography 8 German and Netherlandish Art of the 15th and 16th Times and Ancient Rome 26 European Medieval Art Thursday, Friday — from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., • use your mobile phone centuries 9 Flemish Art of the 17th century 10 Rembrandt 27 Netherlandish and German Sculpture of the 15th and Ticket office — to 8 p.m. Please leave your coat in the cloakroom and his School 11 Dutch Art of the 17th century 14 The Greek 16th centuries 28 Italian Sculpture of the 15th century Closed on Mondays and any large items at the lockers Courtyard 15 The Italian Courtyard 31 Temporary Exhibitions 29 Michelangelo’s Sculpture 30 Temporary Exhibitions