Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature?Why this museumThe 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.
Literature · с 1934 года
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10+With childrenThe literary exhibitions are aimed at a reading teenager.wheelchairStep-free accessThe 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.1.5 hours
The former State Literary Museum, founded in 1934. The only museum in Russia devoted to the history of literature as such: over 700,000 items. It unites twelve branches, among them the house museums of Chekhov, Lermontov, Prishvin and Pasternak.
The building. The Lyuboshchinsky–Vernadsky apartment house of 1912, reopened as a museum centre in 2019.
Good to know. The old display in the Naryshkin Chambers on Petrovka 28 closed in 2014: there is no museum at that address any more.
What to see
The permanent display Zubovsky 15: a house of science, literature and art, and the exhibitions on 20th-century Russian letters.
Minimum route — 1.5 hours на самое важное
The permanent display Zubovsky 15 and one of the temporary shows — there are always two or three.
