Museum of Moscow?Why this museumA city museum — an ordinary genre in Europe — but the material is unique in scale: a million objects about one city. The value is also the Provision Warehouses by Stasov, a model Empire building rarely accessible from inside.
History · с 1896 года
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7+With childrenThe archaeology of Moscow and city life make sense to children: potsherds, bones, models. From 7, with children’s programmes.wheelchairStep-free accessThe museum — step-free. The Provision Warehouses were converted: ramps, lifts, a level courtyard.
Getting there — step-free. Park Kultury has no lift. Surface transport along Zubovsky Boulevard; the approach 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.2 hours
The head museum of the association that also runs the Museum of Archaeology and the Old English Court. Founded in 1896 as the Museum of Municipal Economy. About a million items on the city from the Stone Age onwards; since 2009 the museum occupies the Provision Warehouses.
The building. The Provision Warehouses, 1829–1835, after Vasily Stasov’s model design; a military store that became a museum in 2009.
Good to know. Tickets online only. Children under 13 must be accompanied.
What to see
The permanent display History of Moscow: the archaeology of Moscow soil, town life, plans and views of the city by century. And the Provision Warehouses themselves, an Empire monument after Vasily Stasov.
Minimum route — 2 hours на самое важное
Walk History of Moscow through — that is the core; then one temporary show in the second block. Linger in the yard: the parade ground between the warehouses is a rare piece of city.
