Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Art museum in Khamovniki District, Moscow, Russia
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Khamovniki District, Moscow, Russia, displaying European artworks from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The collection spreads across several buildings along Volkhonka Street and includes paintings, sculptures, and archaeological finds.
Professor Ivan Tsvetaev founded the museum in 1912 as an educational collection for Imperial Moscow University. After the 1917 revolution it was renamed and later received major collections from dissolved private museums.
The museum name honors Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, though he never had a direct connection to the institution itself. Visitors today see mostly French Impressionist paintings and Dutch masters displayed across the different exhibition halls.
The main building sits near Kropotkinskaya metro station, a short walk from the Kremlin. Plan at least two hours to see the main halls, as the collection is quite large.
The main hall displays a large collection of plaster casts of ancient sculptures, which Tsvetaev had specially made to teach art students about classical forms. These copies still stand in the original hall today and convey the founding idea of the institution.
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