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.
Art · с 1994 года
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adultsWith childrenThe display is closed.wheelchairStep-free accessThe museum — not checked. The display is closed.
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.
Музей сейчас закрыт для посетителей.
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.
Metro Kropotkinskaya, Borovitskaya or Biblioteka imeni Lenina
Opening times
Музей закрыт для посетителей.
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.
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