Московский музей анимации, Animation museum in Ostankinsky District, Russia.

The Moscow Animation Museum is Russia's first international animation museum, opened in 2006 by staff of the Soyuzmultfilm studio. Its main exhibition now occupies part of the Izmailovo Kremlin, where about 2,500 of its roughly 9,000 items are shown. Displays cover Russian and foreign animation, from a 19th-century praxinoscope to a stand on the Nickelodeon channel.

The museum's official founding date is 15 September 2006, when an exhibition on 20th-century animation opened in the foyer of the Natalya Sats Musical Theatre on Vernadsky Avenue, with most items from Soyuzmultfilm's 1960s–1980s work. In 2008 it moved to VDNKh pavilion 84-A, House of Culture. After that building closed for reconstruction in 2015, the museum reopened on 17 October 2015 at the Izmailovo Kremlin.

The museum displays original puppets and drawings from Russian studios that shaped the animation many visitors grew up watching. Seeing the actual objects used to make beloved characters gives the collection a personal and direct quality that reproductions cannot offer.

The museum keeps limited hours and is not open every day, so it is worth checking before you visit. If you plan to join a guided tour or workshop, allow extra time, as these activities go deeper into the collection than a self-guided walk.

Among the objects on display is a device from the 1800s that made still images appear to move by cycling through them rapidly, well before cinema existed. This shows that the core idea behind animation predates the film industry by several decades.