The literary museums of Moscow
The houses where writers worked and the collections that keep what is left. A literary museum rarely wins you over with an object — it wins with a place and a detail, which is why it matters more than usual to know in advance what to look at.
Literature · since 1934
Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature
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The only museum built not around a single name but around literature as a process. Hence its strength — comparisons impossible in a house museum, and a fund of 700,000 items that makes such comparisons possible.
The permanent display Zubovsky 15: a house of science, literature and art, and the exhibitions on 20th-century Russian letters.
Zubovsky Boulevard 15, bldg 1 · today 11:00–18:00 · from 200 ₽ 1.5 hours10+ The literary exhibitions are aimed at a reading teenager.wheelchair — partly The museum — partly. Restored in 2019: there is a lift, but the entrance has steps with a ramp.
Getting there — partly. Park Kultury has no lift. 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.
Getting there — partly. Park Kultury has no lift. 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.
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Literature · since 2005
The Gogol House
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The only memorial museum of Gogol in the world, in the authentic walls of his last four years. The value is topographic: the room, the fireplace and the staircase give what no edition can.
Six memorial rooms; the fireplace in which, on the night of 12 February 1852, Gogol burned the manuscript of the second volume of Dead Souls.
Nikitsky Boulevard 7a · today 12:00–19:00 · from 150 ₽ 1 hour9+ The memorial rooms need a reader of Dead Souls. No point before nine.wheelchair — no The museum — no. A 17th-century house entered by steps, with no platform lift.
Getting there — partly. Arbatskaya has no lift. 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.
Getting there — partly. Arbatskaya has no lift. 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.
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Literature · since 1957
The Pushkin State Museum
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There is no memorial Pushkin house in Moscow — he did not live here. The value is not authentic walls but a complete age: objects, books and portraits from which the Pushkin era can be reconstructed whole. For relics go to the Moika in Petersburg; for the era, here.
The permanent displays Pushkin and His Age (fifteen rooms of the manor house) and Pushkin’s Fairy Tales; first editions, portraits of his circle, everyday objects of the early 19th century.
Prechistenka 12/2 · today 10:00–18:00 1.5–2 hours6+ For “Pushkin’s Fairy Tales” — from 6; younger children will not manage the main display.wheelchair — partly The museum — partly. An early 19th-century mansion: a platform lift at the entrance, level between the enfilade rooms but not everywhere.
Getting there — partly. Kropotkinskaya has no lift. The approach along Prechistenka is level. 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.
Getting there — partly. Kropotkinskaya has no lift. The approach along Prechistenka is level. 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.
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