Moscow museums · Military history
Borodino Panorama Museum?Why this museumRoubaud’s panorama is one of the few survivors of a genre that was the summit of 19th-century visual culture and has almost entirely vanished. The value lies in the machinery of the spectacle, not in the subject: this is how people looked before cinema.
original name: Музей-панорама «Бородинская битва»
Military history · since 1962
our rating
significant8+With childrenThe panorama impresses children too, but it needs a story. From 8.wheelchairStep-free accessThe museum — partly. A ramp at the entrance and a lift up to the panorama; the Kutuzov hut in the yard is over uneven ground.
Getting there — step-free. Kutuzovskaya has no lift. There is parking along Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Moscow metro stations almost never have lifts to the platform, except on the Big Circle line and the MCC. A wheelchair user is better served by the surface buses, which are low-floor across the centre.1.5 hours
Getting there — step-free. Kutuzovskaya has no lift. There is parking along Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Moscow metro stations almost never have lifts to the platform, except on the Big Circle line and the MCC. A wheelchair user is better served by the surface buses, which are low-floor across the centre.1.5 hours
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Reference
Opened in 1962 for the 150th anniversary of the battle of Borodino, on the site of the former village of Fili.
The building. The round panorama building was put up in 1962 by the architect A. Korabelnikov.
Good to know. Free for everyone on the third Sunday of the month.
What to see
Franz Roubaud’s Borodino panorama of 1912: 115 metres of canvas in the round, 15 metres high. Next door, the Kutuzov hut where on 1 September 1812 the council of war decided to abandon Moscow.
Minimum route — 1.5 hours for the essentials
First the panorama — give it twenty minutes. Then the 1812 hall and the Kutuzov hut in the yard.
Getting in
Address
Kutuzovsky Prospekt 38, bldg 1 (on the map)
How to get there
Metro Kutuzovskaya or Park Pobedy, then walk to the Triumphal Arch
Opening times
opens today at 10:00
| Mon–Wed, Sat, Sun | 10:00–18:00 |
| Thu | 10:00–21:00 |
| Fri | closed |
The halls close to entry 45 minutes early. Closed Fridays; the last Thursday of the month is a cleaning day.
Tickets
Adults 500 ₽; children 7–17 and concessions 250 ₽.
tickets online
When to go
Friday is closed and the last Thursday is a cleaning day — the usual trap. Thursday runs to 21:00.
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