🖼 New Jerusalem Museum

Истра, Ново-Иерусалимская наб., 1

A large modern museum building at the foot of the monastery with collections of icons, paintings, porcelain and weapons.

The museum dates back to 1920, when a History and Art Museum was created in the closed monastery to save its treasures.
The collection has more than 180,000 items, making it the largest museum in the Moscow region.
In 2014 the museum moved from the monastery to a new three-story building on the other bank of the Istra.
The building was designed by the architect Valery Lukomsky in the spirit of "green architecture", so as not to compete with the monastery's silhouette.
In the 1920s the collection was enriched with items from nationalized estates, including Ilyinskoye, Petrovskoye, Yaropolets and others.
In 1941 the most valuable items were taken out to Moscow, and from there to Alma-Ata.
The permanent exhibition on the monastery and Patriarch Nikon opened in December 2017 on 1,500 m².

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