Moscow museums · History
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center?Why this museumCome for two things at once: the Bakhmetevsky garage by Melnikov and Shukhov, a building of world significance, and the history of Russian Jewry told from inside as nowhere else. The holdings of originals are modest, and that is worth knowing beforehand.
original name: Еврейский музей и центр толерантности
History · since 2012
our rating
outstanding6+With childrenOne of the few museums in Moscow that genuinely holds children: screens, sound, film, interactive tables. From 6.wheelchairStep-free accessThe museum — step-free. Fully accessible: level floors throughout, lifts, accessible toilets, wheelchairs at the door. One of the best in Moscow for this.
Getting there — step-free. Maryina Roshcha has no lift and Dostoyevskaya is a kilometre away. There is car parking and low-floor buses. 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.2.5 hours
Getting there — step-free. Maryina Roshcha has no lift and Dostoyevskaya is a kilometre away. There is car parking and low-floor buses. 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.2.5 hours
checked 15 Aug 2026 · сайт музея · № 47
Reference
Opened in 2012 in the Bakhmetevsky bus garage. The permanent display tells the history of the Jewish people and of Russian Jewry as a sequence of interactive spaces.
The building. The Bakhmetevsky garage, 1926–1927, architect Konstantin Melnikov, structures by Vladimir Shukhov.
What to see
The building itself — the Bakhmetevsky garage of 1926–1927, one of Konstantin Melnikov’s principal works with steel structures by Vladimir Shukhov; the Café on Basseynaya, a reconstruction of shtetl life.
Minimum route — 2.5 hours for the essentials
The permanent display runs as one route, with the Café on Basseynaya halfway. Look separately at the garage itself.
Getting in
Address
Obraztsova 11, bldg 1a (on the map)
How to get there
Metro Maryina Roshcha or Dostoyevskaya
Opening times
opens today at 12:00
| Mon–Thu, Sun | 12:00–22:00 |
| Fri | 10:00–15:00 |
| Sat | closed |
Closed on Saturdays and Jewish holidays. Friday closes early.
Tickets
Adults 400 ₽; concessions 200 ₽.
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When to go
Closed Saturdays and Jewish holidays; Friday shuts at 15:00. Sunday is busy.
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