Museums/Galleries, Moscow

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Sadly we were late and missed being able to visit the museum; so just external appreciation of the building was possible.

The Museum is open:

Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat: from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., ticket office is open till 5 p.m.

Sun: from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., ticket office is open till 7 p.m.

The new exhibition hall is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., ticket office is open till 6 p.m.

The museum is closed Tuesday and the first Monday of each month

Excursion office tel.: (495) 692-37-31

Cultural and Educational department tel.: (495) 692-06-68

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Opened: 11.00 - 19.00
Monday - closed.
Ticket: For adults - 200 RUB, photo - 200 RUB.
I was lucky because when I visited this museum, it was 50 years after first Gagarin flight. That's why there was a lot of Gagarin things, pictures, videos...
This spice museum is huge! Many exhibits to see. But! You should buy a ticket for taking photos!
Also I was lucky. Because when I came to the museum, there was also showing one movie about spice and about astronauts.

This museum is unbelievable, it is a large round building which has the walls covered with an artist's painting of one of the most intense moments of the Borodino battle when Russian troops repel another French attack near Semenovskoye village that took place on August 26th,1812.

The panorama was created by Franz Alexeevich Roubaud (1856-1928) in commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the 1812 War. No photos were allowed whilst inside the museum.

The painting is huge: 115 metres long and 15 metres wide. The detail in the painting of uniforms, facial expression, horses , equipment etc etc made me feel as though I was there.

Information from the museum guide included unbelievable loss of life with Napoleon's army losing over 100,000 soldiers and the Russians' many more.

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Technical Museum has a huge collection of various examples of tecnique, mechanism, devices, techical instruments as well as examples of the turbine, plane engine and cars. The museum is placed in 3-floors house on Novaya Ploshad', that is in walk distance from Lubyanka Square (the closest metro stations are Lubyanka and Kitay-Gorod). The entrance fee is RUR 150 (EUR 3.75), free for students (for foreigners is RUR 250, EUR 6.25). The extra pay for the photos or video is RUR 30 (EUR 0.75).
The museums is open from 10 am till 6 pm (the ticket office closed at 5 pm) except Mondays. You may get excursion from 10 am and 3 pm (I strongly recommend it to you, at the same time I have doubts it is possible to have in English). Since 3.30 pm the ticket is RUR 100 (EUR 2.50) but only for self-dependent visit.

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The Armoury Chamber, a treasure-house, is a part of the Grand Kremlin Palace’s complex. It is situated in the building constructed in 1851.

At the beginning of the 19th century the Armoury Chamber acquired significance as a public museum.

Today in the Armoury Chamber you will find more than four thousands items of applied art of Russia, European and Eastern countries of IV-early XX centuries., unique exhibits are on show, examples of decorative art, given by foreign ambassadors, collections of 13th - 18th century weapons and armour, unequalled elsewhere., fabrics and clothes of the 14th - the 19th centuries, and jewellery of the 12th - the 19th centuries.
In the Armoury Chamber you may also see Faberge's famous Easter eggs with some miniature objects inside (for example, a Trans-Siberian express train).

Hall 1. Russian gold and silverware of the XIIth to early XVIIth century
Hall 2. Russian gold and silverware of the XVIIth to early XXth century
Hall 3. European and Oriental ceremonial weapons of the XVth to XIXth century
Hall 4. Russian arms of the XIIth to early XIXth century
Hall 5. West-European Silver of the XIIIth to XIXth centuries
Hall 6. Precious textiles, pictorial and ornamental embroidery of the XIVth to XVIIIth century. Russian secular dress of the XVIth to early XXth century
Hall 7. Ancient state regalia and ceremonial objects of the XIIIth to the XVIIIth century
Hall 8. Ceremonial horse harness of the XVIth to XVIIIth centuries
Hall 9. Royal carriages of the XVIth to XVIIIth century

Visiting of the Armoury Chamber by seances at 10:00, 12:00, 14:30, 16:30.
Tickets to the Armoury Chamber can be purchased in the museum’s ticket offices 45 minutes before the beginning of a seance.
Full ticket price for visiting the Armoury Chamber - 700 rub. (USD 23.00)

But shance that tickets will be available is insignificant. )I lived in Moscow more than 40 years and was lucky to visit the Armoury Chamber 3 times....)
BE PREPEARED: you need to order tickets in advance (unfortunately in tourist companies price will be much more than in the museum’s ticket offices).

Additional services:
- a tour with audio-guides;
- touch screens with additional information placed in the exhibition halls.

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Visit one of the most extensive and valuable collections of natural history in Russia!

How was the theory of evolution developed for the last 150 years? What was changed in this theory during this period? How does the Darwin’s concept of evolution look in the light of the current knowledge? The State Darwin Museum is devoted to these questions.

Great fun for kids - just press the bottom and enjoy birds or frogs songs from the museum's audio collection (On the second floor of the permanent exhibition).

Open Daily 100.00 a.m - 6.00 p.m.

Entrans fee - 120 Rub ($4)

After purchasing the special permition (100 Rub - 3.3 $) you can take photographs and videos for personal use in the Museum

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The Museum of Paleontology has beautiful public exhibits - 5000 sq.m., largely unheard of outside of Moscow as one of the world largest natural-science museums.

The First Hall is rather introductory one and tells about the paleontology as a science. The exposition of the Second Hall tells about Precambrian and early Paleozoic and represents the first forms of life that appeared on Earth, invertebrate species and their evolution. The Forth Hall is dedicated to late Paleozoic and the beginning of the Age of Reptiles. The Fifth Hall is especially popular with the visitors because it tells about dinosaurs and treasures many skeletons of these extinct creatures. In the last Six Hall various mammals and the unique fauna of the Age of Mammals are represented.

Entrans fee - 150 Rub ($5)
fee for photocamera use - 100 Rub ($3.30)

Mon. Th. - closed
Wed- Sun. open 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m

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I take care to learn about Caruso when I go to Italy, and I have certainly listened to Louis Armstrong long before I found myself in USA.

I hope you know who Galina Ulanova is, if you are planning to visit Moscow?