Museums of Moscow - point number two of the usual metropolitan "excursion" .Having looked at all kinds of white-stone and red brick walls, wondering at the golden domes and ruby ​​stars and by stumbling a couple of times on the historic stone blocks, the guests of the capital's trek to the bowels of the Moscow museums, storages and foundations - to inspect valuable exhibits in historical interiors and simply hide from the changeable northern weather. @.It should be noted that the choice of exposition establishments in Moscow is truly huge and anyone interested in anything in life - from precious stones to Pushkin's creativity and from the planets of the Solar system to the garter belts - will necessarily find his "own" museum (or gallery) .

To walk around Moscow museums absolutely free of charge and at an unusual time of the day is possible during the annual night of museums in Moscow

Gold and diamonds

The treasures of the Russian Empire, perhaps the universal magnet for all categories of "museums" - and foreigners, and Russians, and Muscovites themselves are fascinated by sceptres and powers, coronation dresses and gilded carriages, gold nuggets and unique diamonds in the two main state treasuries - the Armory and the Diamond Fund (both in the Kremlin).

Cloths and statues

Marble masterpieces by Michelangelo and Rodin and the creations of almost all the famous painters of the planet are kept in the art museums of Moscow - the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Central House of Artists and the Museum of Modern Art .The number of originals is not only Russian (which is understandable), but also foreign painters are striking - it seems that all the famous Impressionist paintings and a good half of the heritage of other European artists have found shelter in Moscow .In the halls you can see the masterpieces of Botticelli, Rembrandt, Renoir, Manet and Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Constable, Picasso, Dali and many others .The museums regularly host exhibitions from the collections of the largest museum collections in the world, and the CHA also works as an exhibition and trade fair site .

Artifacts and antiquities

Klyo's enthusiastic followers will not be disappointed by the Moscow museums of history .Magnificent expositions of artifacts from the depth of centuries - from coppers of the primitive man to the originals of iconic documents of the 20th century are demonstrated in the Historical Museum on Red Square (4,500 exhibits!) And its branches, the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, and others .Let us hasten to assure that the dust of centuries here smells only of valuable exhibits, and not from museums as such - many expositions are created with the latest technology .That there are at least dioramas of the Great Patriotic War or millions of tears-beads "dripping" from the height of the dome in the Hall of Remembrance and Grief .Antiquities of a different kind are represented in the Paleontological Museum - one of the largest museums in the world in terms of the number of fossil artifacts .Here you can see the remains of the most ancient life, from imprints of invertebrates and prehistoric ferns to 20-meter skeletons of mammoths .

For walkers

Those wishing to combine business with pleasure are invited to reserve museums and manors of Moscow: Kolomenskoye and Kuskovo, Tsaritsyno, Ostankino and Arkhangelskoye .In the vast territories, thematic gardens are broken up and a lot of landscape decorations are invented, white marble virgins, bashfully covering the charms with folds of chitons, pouring water from bottomless jars, and the front entrances are guarded by shaggy stone lions .Manor buildings can be safely considered masterpieces of architecture: palaces, galleries, wings, grottoes and all kinds of houses were built by the best architects of the 18-19th centuries, and for their decoration unique materials were used .The grotto in the Kuskovo Manor, for example, is lined with 24 kinds of sea shells, and in Ostankino the Theater Hall is especially distinguished - the ornate home theater of the Count's family Sheremetev .Well, the famous tent church in Kolomenskoye in general is one of the symbols of Moscow .In the manors there are permanent exhibitions that are not inferior in value to museum collections: Kuskovo, for example, invites you to the Ceramics Museum where you can see rare examples of faience and glass from different countries, from antiquity to modern times .

For naturalists

Raised on Grzymek's books and Drozdov's programs, they will find a rest for the soul in the Moscow museums of flora and fauna .The first place among them is undoubtedly the Darwin Museum - one of the most significant natural-science storages in Europe .His expositions tell of the evolution of "from and to" (at least until today's "summit"), give an idea of ​​the diversity of life on earth, natural selection, heredity and other aspects of the Darwinian theory .There are also unique collections, the subject of envy of zoologists from all over the world - a collection of stuffed albinos and melanists of various animal kingdoms .Another natural science temple is the Zoological Museum at the Moscow State University .In its systematic exposition, all groups of modern animals are represented, from unicellular to birds and mammals .A special mention deserves a charming scientific terrarium where you can see a collection of living reptiles, including recently discovered species .Well, you can look at the diversity of life on Earth "from above" by visiting the newly opened Moscow Planetarium .Its halls are equipped with the latest technology, there are a bunch of interactive exhibits and regularly shows an interesting half-hour film about our universe .

For admirers of talents

Do not think about life without graceful literature? Welcome to the rooms of geniuses of artistic thought: Pushkin Museum on Prechistenka and his memorial apartment on Arbat, Turgenev's house on Ostozhenka, Mayakovsky's Museum, Bulgakov's Bad Apartment, Chekhov's, Tolstoy's, Esenin's, Dostoevsky's house museums ... Here you can breathe in full fluttering in the air creative fluids, plunge into the real atmosphere of creating famous works, see personal belongings, wardrobe items, manuscripts and notebooks .In the museum stores are sold facsimiles of manuscript pages and numerous materials on the biography of writers .The most extensive museum - of course, "our whole": the abundance of halls and exhibits, as well as a lot of thematic cultural events .The Bulgakov apartment No. 50 enjoys special love for the public - the energies here are incredible, and in the doorway, it seems that the fat cat tail has just flashed by .

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