🖼 Museum of Moscow

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A museum in the former Provision Warehouses of the 1830s about the life of the city from ancient times to today.

The museum was founded in 1896 by the City Duma as the Museum of Municipal Services and was first housed in the Krestovsky water towers.
From 1926 the museum worked in the Sukharev Tower, until it was demolished in 1935.
The warehouses were built in 1835; they were long attributed to Gilardi, but it turned out they were built by Vasily Stasov and Fyodor Shestakov.
From the 1930s the Provision Warehouses were the General Staff's motor pool, and only in 2009 were they given to the museum.
About 800,000 exhibits were moved when the museum relocated to Zubovsky Boulevard.
The oldest finds in the archaeological collection are 20,000–25,000 years old.
The collection includes a lifetime portrait of Peter I by the Dutchman Nicolaas Verkolje, 1717.

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