Moscow museums · Art
Department of Private Collections, Pushkin Museum?Why this museumThe only museum in Russia where a collection is shown under the collector’s name instead of being dissolved into the general halls — a principle that matters for the history of collecting. Its loss is real; the display is closed.
original name: Отдел личных коллекций ГМИИ имени А. С. Пушкина
Art · since 1994
our rating
outstandingadultsWith childrenThe display is closed.wheelchairStep-free accessThe museum — not checked. The display is closed.
checked 15 Aug 2026 · сайт музея · № 30
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Reference
A department created on Ilya Zilberstein’s idea: collections given to the museum whole are shown as collections, under the collector’s name. Opened in 1994.
The building. The Golitsyn estate on Volkhonka, converted for the museum in the 1990s.
The museum is currently closed to visitors.
What to see
The collections of Ilya Zilberstein, Sviatoslav Richter, Alexander Tyshler and Dmitry Krasnopevtsev — some seven thousand works of Russian and Western European art of the 15th to 20th century.
Getting in
Address
Volkhonka 10 (on the map)
How to get there
Metro Kropotkinskaya, Borovitskaya or Biblioteka imeni Lenina
Opening times
The museum is closed to visitors.
The permanent display has been closed since 2015: the building is part of the Pushkin Museum’s “museum town” works. Individual exhibitions of the department are shown in other buildings. Checked 14 August 2026.
Tickets
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When to go
Closed to visitors since 2015.
Contacts
pushkinmuseum.art/museum/structure/departments/olk/index.php · +7 (495) 697-16-10