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Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17 million within the urban area. Moscow is one of Russia's federal cities. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific centre of Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city entirely on the European continent. By broader definitions Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the 14th largest metro area, the 18th largest agglomeration, the 14th largest urban area, and the 11th largest by population within city limits worldwide. According to Forbes 2013, Moscow has been ranked as the ninth most expensive cit...
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  • 1. The State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow
    The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works to the Russian nation.The façade of the gallery building was designed by the painter Viktor Vasnetsov in a peculiar Russian fairy-tale style. It was built in 1902–04 to the south from the Moscow Kremlin. During the 20th century, the gallery expanded to several neighboring buildings, including the 17th-century church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi. The collec...
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  • 2. Art Gallery of the European and American Countries of the XIX-XX centuries Moscow
    German art has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual arts, from the earliest known work of figurative art to its current output of contemporary art. Germany has only been united into a single state since the 19th century, and defining its borders has been a notoriously difficult and painful process. For earlier periods German art often effectively includes that produced in German-speaking regions including Austria, Alsace and much of Switzerland, as well as largely German-speaking cities or regions to the east of the modern German borders. Although tending to be neglected relative to Italian and French contributions from the point of view of the English-speaking world, German art has played a crucial role in the development of Western art, especially Celtic art, Carolingian art ...
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  • 3. The Armoury Moscow
    Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17 million within the urban area. Moscow is one of Russia's federal cities. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific centre of Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city entirely on the European continent. By broader definitions Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the 14th largest metro area, the 18th largest agglomeration, the 14th largest urban area, and the 11th largest by population within city limits worldwide. According to Forbes 2013, Moscow has been ranked as the ninth most expensive city in the world by Mercer and has one of the world's largest urban economies, being ranked as an alpha global city according to the Globaliza...
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  • 4. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Moscow
    The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The International musical festival Svyatoslav Richter's December nights has been held in the Pushkin museum since 1981.
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  • 5. New Tretyakov Moscow
    The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works to the Russian nation.The façade of the gallery building was designed by the painter Viktor Vasnetsov in a peculiar Russian fairy-tale style. It was built in 1902–04 to the south from the Moscow Kremlin. During the 20th century, the gallery expanded to several neighboring buildings, including the 17th-century church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi. The collec...
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  • 6. Multimedia Art Museum Moscow
    The Multimedia Art Museum , Moscow is a Russian state museum dedicated to the presentation and development of actual art related to new multimedia technologies. The museum was opened in October 2010 on the grounds of the Moscow House of Photography
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  • 7. Museum of the Bible Moscow
    German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1884 as Deutsches Buchgewerbe-Museum, is the world's oldest museum of its kind, dedicated to collecting and preserving objects and documents as well as literature connected with the history of books, including paper, printing techniques, the art of illustration, and bookbinding. The museum is housed in a modern €60 million annex to the German National Library in Leipzig build in 2011.The museum acquired in 1886 the entire book collection of Heinrich Klemm, which he had sold to the Kingdom of Saxony the year before. A rare copy of a 42-line Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum was among the books in the collection. At the end of World War II, the Bible was taken as war booty and transferred to the Russian State Library in Mos...
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  • 8. Museum of Russian Impressionism Moscow
    The Museum of Russian impressionism is an art museum in Moscow dedicated to Russian art of the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
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  • 9. State Museum of Oriental Art Moscow
    The State Museum of Oriental Art is one of the biggest cultural institutions in the world for preservation, research, and display of Oriental art. It is located in the center of Moscow in the historical building known as the Lunins' House, a private residence built in the early 19th century by the famous architect Domenico Gilardi.
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  • 10. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Moscow
    The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, also referred to as The GARAGE Museum , is a major art museum whose present location is in Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia. It is the permanent home of an expanding collection of Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. The museum was established in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova as a non-profit project of The IRIS Foundation.The Museum is the origin for the namesake of Garage Magazine, also founded by Zhukova, who was formerly editor-in-chief of Pop. In 2015, the Museum moved to its current building, designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and utilizing the former structure of the historical 1968 Vremena Goda Soviet Modernist restaurant. The Museum's collection is founded upon the private collections of Dasha Zhukova and Ro...
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  • 11. The Museum of Russian Icon Moscow
    The Museum of Russian Icons is the first in Moscow and the second in Russia private collection of the works of the Old Russian art.
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  • 12. Vinzavod Modern Art Centre Moscow
    Winzavod is a centre for contemporary arts in Moscow, Russia. Opened in 2007, it is located in a complex of seven industrial buildings from the late 19th century including the former brewery called Moscow Bavaria. Alexander Brodsky is the coordinator of the project.
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  • 13. Institute of Russian Realist Art Moscow
    The Institute of Russian Realist Art is a private institution which brings back the public and social traditions of Russian artistic patronage. The IRRA museum and exhibition centre was opened on December 1, 2011 in one of the old buildings of the former cotton-printing factory built in the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow at the end of the 19th century. The IRRA art collection is widely regarded as one of the best collections of the Russian realist school of painting of the 20th century. Three floors of exhibition space totaling over 4,500 square meters offer approximately 500 works of Russian and Soviet art.
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  • 14. Art Center. Moscow Moscow
    The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art is one of the most important Russian cultural events and was founded in 2003.
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  • 15. Museum of Private Collections Moscow
    The Museum of Russian Icons is the first in Moscow and the second in Russia private collection of the works of the Old Russian art.
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