PUSHKIN FINE ARTS MUSEUM TOUR

The Pushkin Fine Arts Museum is renowned for its collection of French painting, especially of the Impressionists and Post-impressionists Schools but also had a broad selection of European works from Renaissance onwards.

The Pushkin Museum was founded in 1912 by I.V.Tsvetaev, professor of Art History at Moscow University. It originally housed a large collection of copies of great classical sculptures and antiquities which can still be seen on the ground floor.

In 1918 the canvases belonging to two great private collectors, S.Shchukin and I.Morozov, were nationalised. For a time they were exhibited together in Morozov’s former mansion, then in 1930s, part of the collection was presented to the Hermitage in Leningrad and the other part was moved to Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. But for many years until Stalin’s death in 1953, the paintings were kept out of the public gaze.

Pushkin Museum boasts to have a remarkable collection of the Italian Renaissance and post-Renaissance, Flemish and Dutch schools.

any day except Monday

English, French, German and Spanish speaking guide assistance along the way
Pre booked museum entrance tickets to Fine Arts Museum