Pushkin Fine
Arts Museum Tour
Guided transfer
for 1-2 pax auto "Volga"
for 3-20 pax - minibus
more then 20 pax - bus
Except Jan. 01; May 01, 09; Jun.
12; Nov. 07)
(Approx. 3 hours)
Pushkin
Fine Arts Museum
The solemn ceremony of stone
laying of the Museum took place on
August 17, 1898 in the presence of
the Emperor Nicholay II and
members of the royal family. The
Museum was opened on May 31, 1912
as a Museum of Fine Arts named
after Emperor Alexander III. In
1932 it became the State Museum of
Fine Arts and a little later was
renamed in honour of Alexander
Pushkin, the greatest Russian
poet. The founder of the Museum
and its first Director (1911-1918)
was Prof. Ivan Tsvetaev, the head
of the Department of Theory and
History of Art at the Moscow
University, Ph.D. of Roman Arts
and Letters.
The Museum has been constructed in
the centre of the city not far
from the Kremlin. The construction
of the building answered the
latest achievements of the
techniques and museum
requirements. It has been
conceived in the style of an
ancient classical temple on the
high podium with the Ionic
colonnade along the facade.
In 1948 the Museum of Modern
Western Art was closed and its
collection was divided between
Moscow and Leningrad. The Museum
has acquired 300 paintings and
over 60 sculptures of
Western-European and American
masters of the second half of the
XIX and the early XX centuries.
This acquisition changed the
Museum of Fine Arts' orientation
completely having extended the
parameters of the collection
chronologically right up to the
present time and bringing the
Museum a new fame.
The beginning of post Stalin era
in the Museum was marked with the
demonstration in 1955 of
masterpieces from the Dresden
Picture Gallery, saved by Soviet
solders from annihilation in the
Second World War and fully
restored by the Pushkin Museum's
experts.
At present the collection of the
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
constitutes more then 500.000
works of art — paintings and
sculptures, graphic art,
decorative art, archaeological
monuments and numismatic items,
photography.
In 1991 the Pushkin State Museum
of Fine Arts acquired a status of
the "Institution of particularly
valuable cultural heritage of the
Russian Federation".
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Russia ’s second largest
collection of Western European
art, comprising early Byzantine
icons, coptic portraits, Italian
Renaissance, Dutch still-lifes,
Rembrants, Rubence, Poussin,
Barbyson school and French
Impressionists.
A perfectly displayed collection
of ancient Egypt mummies, stellas,
statues, manuscripts,
sarcophaguses.
Henry Schlimann ’s breakthrough –
Golden Treasures of Troy
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