Museums of Moscow

Museum with an interesting collection of musical instruments. The assembled forces of the collectors, musicians, and enthusiasts. Part of the exhibition is interactive: it is possible to try to play on the instruments. The Museum is suitable for children and adults of all ages.

We built a model of the Martian base and filled it with current hardware - now everyone can feel like a conqueror of space and the planet Mars today. We will be interesting for both children and adults - after all, you can ask, and photograph and touch the exhibits, to talk, to play and experiment.

The Museum of V. A. Tropinin and Moscow artists of his time was opened on February 11, 1971 Created based on the personal collection of Russian art of 18-19 centuries., he granted to the city of Moscow together with the building of number 10 in Machinescom alley, Felix E. Vishnevsky, well-known collector, enthusiast and connoisseur of Russian painting.
The building in which the Museum is located, is a monument of history and culture in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, a model of merchant building of Zamoskvorechye.
The Museum‘s collection has around 3,000 pieces of painting, graphics and decorative art. Most of the works created during the first third of the 18th — mid-19th century.
The Museum has one of the most significant collections of works by V. A. Tropinin — the founder of the "Moscow school" of painting, a favorite portraitist of Moscow 1st half
The 19th century and the works of the outstanding artists of the past: I. Ya. Vishnyakova, I. P. Argunov, A. P. Antropov, F. Rokotov, D. G. Levitsky, V. L. Borovikovsky, S. F. Shchedrin, S. S. Shchukin, etc.
A distinctive feature of the V. A. Tropinin Museum is its intimacy, preserving the atmosphere of an old Moscow house. Furniture, vintage chandeliers and lamps, porcelain,
glass, boxes of bones, bead embroidery — all of these items help to feel the harmony of bygone times.
Museum of V. A. Tropinin offers:
- group and individual tours;
- lectures on the history and art;
- master-classes on clay modelling, painting clay pieces, graphic art vasography;
- interactive sessions for children called "guess the profession";
- concerts of instrumental and vocal music;
- Saturday walking tour of the Moskva river (may-September);
souvenir and printed materials of the Museum.

The building in which the Museum is located, is a monument of history and culture in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, a model of merchant building of Zamoskvorechye. Most of the works created during the first third of the 18th — mid-19th century.
The Museum has one of the most significant collections of works by V. A. Tropinin — the founder of the "Moscow school" of painting, a favorite portraitist of Moscow 1st half of the 19th century and the works of the outstanding artists of the past: I. Ya. Vishnyakova, I. P. Argunov, A. P. Antropov, F. Rokotov, D. G. Levitsky, V. L. Borovikovsky, S. F. Shchedrin, S. S. Shchukin, etc.
The Museum can be explored independently or book a tour by phone.
The Museum hosts workshops, lectures, concerts.