Centralny Dom Kino

Centralny Dom Kino is a cultural complex in Presnensky District that combines cinema screenings with museum exhibitions in a white stone building. Inside are multiple theater spaces, exhibition halls, and storage areas filled with film equipment, documents, and materials from different periods of cinema history.

The building opened in 1934 as a key venue for Soviet film screenings during the early cinema era. Over time it expanded to show international films and developed its museum side to document how cinema technology changed.

The building serves as a gathering place where the story of Russian cinema unfolds through exhibitions, costumes, and equipment from past productions. Visitors experience how filmmaking worked and how the craft has evolved over the decades.

Tickets for screenings and museum access can be purchased at the entrance, and checking the website before your visit helps you plan what to see. The building is centrally located and easy to reach in the district.

The building houses projection equipment from multiple decades, showing how cinema technology evolved from simple beginnings to modern times. Walking through reveals how different eras had different ways of showing films to audiences.