Borodino Museum, Military museum and historic site in Moscow Oblast, Russia.

The Borodino Museum occupies a single-storey building with pale yellow walls and a green metal roof, its entrance porch framed by four white columns beneath a gable with a round-arched window. Above the columns a Cyrillic inscription reads "БОРОДИНСКИЙ МУЗЕЙ". The museum-reserve covers 110 km² of the Borodino field, where the 1812 and 1941 battles were fought, and holds monuments, the Spaso-Borodinsky Monastery and the site of the Raevsky battery.

The museum grew out of the 1839 consecration of Antonio Adamini's monument on the Raevsky battery, attended by Nicholas I before 150,000 soldiers and 200 veterans of the battle; Bagration's remains were buried at its foot. A hut nearby housed veteran soldiers who kept a visitor book and showed battle plans and finds. The estate house in Borodino village was rebuilt as a small wooden palace with portraits of 1812 generals and a display of relics, forming the core of the museum.

The museum grew out of the 1839 consecration of Antonio Adamini's monument on the Raevsky battery, where Prince Bagration's remains were buried. Veterans housed in a nearby guardhouse kept a visitor book and showed finds from the field. Since 1867 Leo Tolstoy stayed at the monastery hotel while gathering material for War and Peace; an exhibition there now covers the novel.

The grounds are large and best explored on foot, ideally with guided tours that explain where different troop units were positioned. Comfortable shoes are important since you spend much time outdoors and the weather in this region can be changeable.

The museum grew out of a soldiers' lodge built beside the Raevsky battery monument, where veterans, by imperial decree, kept a visitor book and showed finds from the battlefield. In 1941 the museum building was used as a slaughterhouse by German troops and burned during their retreat; the exhibits had been evacuated to Moscow and then Alma-Ata, and went back on display in the repaired building on 15 October 1944.