Anna Golubkina's Museum-workshop, Biographical museum and sculptor's workshop in Khamovniki District, Moscow, Russia.
Anna Golubkina's Museum-workshop is the former studio of a Russian sculptor located in Moscow. The building preserves her tools, materials, and personal objects, making it an authentic artist's house where creative work actually took place.
Anna Golubkina rented two studios in this building from 1910 and lived and worked in them until her death in 1927. Her sister Alexandra founded the museum in 1932 to carry out the sculptor's last wish, and it opened in 1934. Soviet cultural policy closed it in 1952 as "bourgeois"; a 1957 congress of artists demanded its return, and the city reopened it in 1972. It joined the Tretyakov Gallery in 1986.
The memorial room keeps Golubkina's table, chairs, a tea table with a samovar, family photographs, jewellery and paintings. The collection also holds her 1920s cameos, carved in bas-relief as jewellery. Her working tools, clay and the armature for building sculptures are displayed beside the finished pieces.
The museum has been closed for restoration since 2017, so no tours take place in the workshop itself. Golubkina's works were shown in an expanded display at the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane in 2014, marking her 150th anniversary. The planned reconstruction adds 100 m², replaces the studio windows and limestone panels, and creates a new exhibition hall, café, book and souvenir shops and art studios.
Among the more than 1,500 items are about 300 sculptures, including a collection of cameos — jewellery in bas-relief technique that Golubkina made in the 1920s. The memorial room keeps her table, chairs, a tea table with a samovar, family photographs and jewellery. Her working tools, clay and a frame for building sculptures are displayed beside the finished pieces.
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