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      All day: Moscow of museums

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 6.5 km + 🚕🍽 3📍 9 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Impressionists, Rublev icons, the avant-garde and contemporary art in one day. Pick 3-4 museums from the list.

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      1. 1
        ☕️ Coffeemania at the Conservatory
        Б. Никитская ул., 13/6
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        Breakfast by the Conservatory
        🍴 A coffee shop in the Conservatory building with a summer terrace, handy before a concert. What to order: coffee, breakfast, mango-passion fruit tea, panna cotta.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🖼 Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
        ул. Волхонка, 12
        🎟 ticket
        A classical columned building of 1912 housing European art from the ancient world to modern times.
        Antiquity and the Egyptian Hall
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        Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum was created on the initiative of Professor Ivan Tsvetaev, the father of Marina Tsvetaeva.
        • The main sponsor of the construction was the industrialist Yuri Nechaev-Maltsov.
        • The building, in the form of an ancient temple, was designed by Roman Klein, with Ivan Rerberg as chief engineer.
        • The museum opened on 31 May 1912 in the presence of Nicholas II as the Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts; it has borne Pushkin's name since 1937.
        • It was conceived as a teaching museum of plaster casts: under Tsvetaev, about two thousand copies were made to his order.
        • The Egyptian collection was bought in 1909–1911 from the orientalist Vladimir Golenishchev.
        • According to legend, the first visitor to the still-closed museum was the stoker Alexei, who worked for Tsvetaev.
        • In 1981 the Moscow – Paris exhibition was held here, with works by Kandinsky, Malevich and Tatlin.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🖼 Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th–20th Centuries
        ул. Волхонка, 14
        🎟 ticket
        A wing on Volkhonka with a collection of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, one of the best in the world.
        Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse
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        Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th–20th Centuries
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The gallery opened in 2006 in a wing of the late 18th-century Golitsyn estate.
        • The core of the collection comes from the merchants Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who bought the Impressionists before they were recognised.
        • In 1923 the collections were combined into the Museum of New Western Art, with about 500 paintings.
        • In 1948 this museum was closed in the campaign against formalism, and its paintings were divided between the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage.
        • It holds Claude Monet's Luncheon on the Grass and two of his Rouen Cathedrals.
        • In the late 19th century the wing was rented out as housing and called the Princes' Court.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        ✨ GES-2 House of Culture
        Болотная наб., 15
        🎟 partly ticketed · the building is free with registration, exhibitions require a ticket
        A former power station across from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, rebuilt by Renzo Piano into an open house of culture with exhibitions and cafés.
        Contemporary art in a former power station
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        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The power station was built in 1905–1907, designed by Vasily Bashkirov, to power the Moscow tram.
        • The reconstruction was carried out by the studio of Italian architect Renzo Piano, who also designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
        • The House of Culture opened in December 2021; it was created by Leonid Mikhelson's V–A–C Foundation.
        • Four steel chimneys about 70 metres tall serve as air intakes, bringing fresh air into the building.
        • At the opening, Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson spent months re-filming the series Santa Barbara here, live for visitors.
        • Inside there is a library, a cinema, a concert hall and open workshops.
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        ☕️ Khleb-2 bakery and Ostanovka café at GES-2
        Болотная наб., 15
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        Lunch
        🍴 After the 2026 relaunch, the Khleb-2 bakery (9:00–21:00), the Ostanovka café (11:00–22:00) and, on weekdays, the Stolovaya canteen (11:00–18:00) are open again. What to order: sourdough bread, croissants and coffee at the bakery, and lunch at the canteen on weekdays. Check the GES-2 website before you go to see whether the cafés are open.
      10. 🚶 on foot
      11. 6
        🖼 Tretyakov Gallery
        Лаврушинский пер., 10
        🎟 ticket
        The main collection of Russian art in a fairy-tale building to Vasnetsov's design, from ancient icons to painting of the early 20th century.
        Russian art before the 20th century
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        Tretyakov Gallery
        © Concierge.2C · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Tretyakov Gallery
        © Adavyd · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The founding date is considered to be 1856, when the merchant Pavel Tretyakov bought his first paintings by Russian artists.
        • In 1892 Tretyakov donated the collection and the house in Lavrushinsky Lane to Moscow.
        • The fairy-tale facade with Old Russian motifs was built in 1902–1904 to a drawing by Viktor Vasnetsov.
        • Repin's painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan has been damaged by vandals twice, in 1913 and in 2018.
        • Alexander Ivanov painted The Appearance of Christ to the People for about 20 years, and a separate hall was built for the canvas.
        • Until 2026 the Vladimir Icon was kept in the Church-Museum of St Nicholas in Tolmachi; it is now in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, and Tolmachi has a copy.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🖼 New Tretyakov Gallery
        Крымский Вал, 10
        🎟 ticket
        The building on Krymsky Val with 20th-century Russian art, from the avant-garde to socialist realism and the Thaw.
        Malevich, Kandinsky, Deineka
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        New Tretyakov Gallery
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • Kazimir Malevich's Black Square of 1915 is kept here.
        • The permanent exhibition covers 20th-century art: Kandinsky, Chagall, Goncharova, Larionov, Petrov-Vodkin, Deineka.
        • Among the main works is Kandinsky's Composition VII of 1913, one of his largest paintings.
        • The building on Krymsky Val was built from 1965 to 1985 in the Soviet modernist style.
        • Next door is Muzeon Park, where Soviet monuments taken down after 1991 were brought, including Dzerzhinsky from Lubyanka.
      14. 🚶 on foot
      15. 8
        🖼 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
        🎟 ticket · the park around it is free
        A contemporary art museum in the former Vremena Goda restaurant of 1968, converted into a gallery.
        Open until late in the evening
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        Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
        © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
        © Sergey Norin from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The museum was founded in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich, and takes its name from its first address, Melnikov and Shukhov's Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage.
        • At the opening on 16 September 2008, Amy Winehouse gave a private concert.
        • In 2012 Garage operated in the park in a temporary pavilion by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of six-metre paper tubes.
        • The present building opened on 12 June 2015; the Vremena Goda restaurant was designed by Igor Vinogradsky and Igor Pyatkin.
        • During the reconstruction OMA kept the mosaic of a red-haired girl in foliage, which became one of the museum's symbols.
        • It has hosted retrospectives of Mark Rothko, Louise Bourgeois and Marina Abramović, as well as Yayoi Kusama's first exhibitions in Russia.
        • The museum has a library of contemporary art, opened in 2014 as the first public one in Russia.
      16. 🚕 taxi, about 10 min via Krymsky Bridge; or 15 min on foot to Park Kultury metro and 1 stop to Kropotkinskaya (red line)
      17. 9
        🍽 Vanil Restaurant
        ул. Остоженка, 1/9
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        Dinner with a view of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
        🍴 A restaurant on Ostozhenka opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, with an Italian menu and its own baking. What to order: vitello tonnato, focaccia, tiramisu, profiteroles.

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