Pushkin Museum Egyptian Hall excursion. Individual excursions to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Introductory tour for children with the Pushkin Museum of Art

I invite you to an educational walk through the halls for children and adults Ancient Egypt. During the excursion, the children will get acquainted with Egyptian art and unravel the secrets of the mysterious ancient civilization: they will find out who invented the mummy, why the pyramids were built, what the fancy hieroglyphs mean and what function the priests performed. And at the end the participants are waiting creative task, which will allow game form consolidate the material and better remember new interesting facts!

What awaits you

Immersion in the culture of Ancient Egypt

In the halls of the museum, children will get acquainted with one of the world's best collections of objects of ancient Egyptian civilization. Will consider ancient mummy and sarcophagi, a real sphinx, a sculptural portrait of a pharaoh, Egyptian papyri and reliefs covered with hieroglyphs, as well as masterpieces of the collection - a paired sculpture of the priests Amenhotep and Rannai and a cosmetic spoon from Ivory, in which paints and incense were stored. Each item in the collection will tell children about the art of Ancient Egypt, religious cults and Everyday life Egyptians, their way of life and writing.

Mysteries of Egyptian civilization

The Egyptians left us many mysteries and symbols that you will have to unravel during the tour! You will learn how and why the Egyptians made mummies, why the pyramids were built, what is special Egyptian hieroglyphs, who are the sphinxes and why do the Egyptian gods have animal heads. And at the end of the excursion, to reinforce the material, children will receive a “papyrus” with empty windows, which will be filled with stickers with images of Egyptian masterpieces, and will answer the question why the Egyptians created these works of art.

Who is the excursion suitable for?

The excursion is designed for children 10-12 years old; the program can also be adapted for an adult audience.

Organizational details

• Depending on the composition of the group participants (children or adults), the cost of the program may vary.
• Tickets for schoolchildren in the museum are purchased separately. Tickets are free, but must be obtained from the box office
• Adults accompanying children purchase entrance tickets at the museum box office. The cost of a full ticket is 300 rubles. To receive the benefit you must present a document.
• The day of the excursion must be agreed upon at least 7 days before the required date.

May 7th, 2011

I have long been planning to talk about what is perhaps my most favorite Moscow museum - the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin. We'll have to break the post into several parts, it's too big and... interesting museum.

Do not expect to go around the entire State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin in one visit. It's practically impossible. Is it just running, glancing briefly at the rich exhibits presented on two floors in 30 halls!
Therefore, I suggest you take a quick “run” through the halls of the museum with me right now, and let everyone thoroughly familiarize themselves with it on their own and preferably over several visits!
Just a little about the history of the museum. The groundbreaking ceremony for the Museum took place on August 17, 1898. First visitors to the Museum fine arts named after the emperor Alexandra III accepted at the Moscow Imperial University on May 31, 1912.


As was customary in those glorious years, the museum was built with donations from philanthropists. Most The money was contributed by the great Russian philanthropist Yuri Stepanovich Nechaev-Maltsov.
The creator of the museum, Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev (1847 - 1913) is a Russian scientist-historian, archaeologist, philologist and art historian, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, professor at Moscow University (father of Marina Tsvetaeva).

So, go ahead, on the 1st floor!

Hall 1. ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT. IV-I millennium BC

The richest collection of ancient Egyptian art presented in the exhibition of this hall introduces the stages of development of Egyptian culture, starting from the pre-dynastic period (IV millennium BC) until the time of the New Kingdom (XVII-XII centuries BC). The architecture of the hall reproduces character traits temple architecture of the 2nd millennium BC. The ceiling paintings, made by the artist I.I. Nivinsky in 1912, represent a free variation on the theme of decorative design of mortuary temples and tombs.

Statue of Amenemhet III. Middle Kingdom, XII Dynasty, mid to late 19th century BC.

Sarcophagus of the nobleman Mahu. New Kingdom, XVIII dynasty, XIV century. BC.

Statue of the god Anubis. New Kingdom, II millennium BC.

These “notes” are over 4000 years old!!!

Hall 2. ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (Mesopotamia, Urartu, Iran, Cyprus, Parthia, India, America)

The exposition of this hall introduces the art of ancient peoples who inhabited Western Asia, the Mediterranean, the Indian Peninsula and Latin America. The decoration of the hall uses motifs from the paintings of the palaces of the Assyrian kings: gate demons “shedu” and reliefs from the royal palaces (casts). In the center of the hall, on a pedestal, there are authentic Urartu vessels, ancient state(current territory of Armenia).

The display cases contain authentic items from ancient civilizations.
Peru. Culture Rekuay. 1st millennium AD Figure of a warrior-priest. Reminds me of our Vanka-Vstanka .

Scythians. 7th-5th century BC Clay tent (possibly a toy).

Four-armed Vishnu with attributes in his hands: club, wheel, conch and lotus.
Sandstone, 9th century. AD Gift from Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India.

Relief depicting a winged spirit in a pose of blessing.
Cast. Original 9th ​​century BC is in British Museum, London.
To work on casts of I.V. Tsvetaev in different years attracted famous Russian scientists and outstanding artists. Plaster casts and galvanocpies were ordered in 1890 - 1911 from famous European workshops.

Hall 3. TREASURES OF TROY

A collection of 259 items from treasures discovered by Heinrich Schliemann during the excavations of Troy in 1871-1890 is stored in the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin since 1945. The collection was transferred Soviet Union together with other artistic values ​​by decision of the Soviet Control Commission as partial compensation for damage caused by the Nazis.

Hall 4. ART OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (Cyprus, Ancient Greece, Etruria, Ancient Rome)

The collection of antique originals is one of the earliest in the Pushkin Museum's collection. The first ancient Greek vases and terracottas were purchased for the Cabinet of Fine Arts of Moscow University in the 50-60s of the 19th century. Today the collection contains more than ten thousand originals dating back to the period from the 3rd millennium BC. to the 4th century AD More than half of them were found by expeditions of the Pushkin Museum during archaeological excavations.

In four sections of the hall - Cyprus, Ancient Greece, Etruria, Ancient Rome - monuments of the main artistic regions and centers of the ancient Mediterranean are presented.
Central to the art section Ancient Rome occupies a sarcophagus with Dionysian scenes (c. 210) - one of the most famous monuments in the Museum’s collection.

Torso of a naked Dionysus with a sword and a grape vine. First half of the 2nd century, marble.

Hall 5. ART OF THE NORTHERN BLACK SEA REGION

The exhibition is based on materials found by expeditions of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin in the south of Russia and Crimea.

Portrait statue of a ruler from Gorgippia. Marble, 80s II century
Found in 1939-1940. in Anapa (ancient Gorgippia).

Hall 6. COPTIC AND HELLENISTIC ART

In the first centuries AD, it began to spread in Egypt christian religion. Christian Egyptians were called Copts.
The hall represents the art and culture of Egypt after the campaigns of Alexander the Great, when Egyptian art absorbs the features of the art of the Greeks (“Hellenes”). Most of the exhibits are related to the funerary cult - sarcophagi, burial shrouds and masks. In the center of the hall there is a display case with Egyptian sarcophagi and mummies of the 6th-1st centuries BC.

Of particular interest is the collection of 16 Fayum portraits, made using the most sophisticated technique of wax paints.
Portrait of a woman, second half of the 2nd century.

Mummy masks, 2nd century.

Hall 7. BYZANTINE ART of the XIV-XVI centuries. ART OF ITALY VIII-XVI centuries

Byzantine painting is represented mainly by monuments of the 14th century. Among the world-class masterpieces is the icon of the “Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles,” which is exceptional in its subtlety of execution.

Collection Italian art- one of the best in the Pushkin Museum collection.

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. Portrait of a young man in the image of Saint Sebastian. Late 1490s.

Giulio Pippi. Lady at the toilet. Early 1520s.

Hall 8. ART OF GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS XV - XVI centuries

Art Northern Renaissance first presented in separate room. These are six boards by Lucas Cranach the Elder, “The Flagellation of Christ” by the largest Münster master Johann Körbecke, “The Annunciation” by the Master from Hoogstraten, etc.
The Pushkin Museum's collection of German art of the 15th century is the best in Russia in terms of the number and quality of works.
There is also a section on Dutch art.

Hall 9. Flemish Art XVII century.

The Flanders Painting Hall gives a holistic view of the Flemish school. Along with the brightest names such as Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, Snyders, the number of exhibited paintings has increased, primarily due to large-format canvases, in the hall you can now see the works of their students and contemporaries (about two dozen new canvases).

Hall 10. Rembrandt and the masters of his school.

For the first time, six paintings by Rembrandt, as well as works by his students and followers, are shown as an independent section.

Hall 11. Dutch painting XVII century.

Paintings of the Dutch school XVII century constitute one of the most numerous and attractive sections of the Pushkin Museum's exhibition. In conditions of severe dependence on market competition, Dutch artists focused on one or several genres where they felt most confident. Some preferred to paint pictures on religious and mythological subjects (works by Hendrik Goltzius, Gerrit van Honthorst, Nicholas Berchem), others - landscapes, and still others - genre scenes and still lifes.

Hall 14. GREEK YARD. Art Ancient Greece. 2nd half of the 5th - beginning of the 4th century BC. Casts.

One of the most beautiful halls of the museum. The complex organization of movement along three floor levels made it possible to convey the free picturesqueness of the ensemble with amazing accuracy Athens Acropolis.

Hall 15. ITALIAN YARD. Art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Casts.

Italian courtyard built as a reduced repetition courtyard Palazzo Bargelo: corner staircase leading to the second floor, small columns with floral capitals supporting the balcony, light arcade, well in the center. The accuracy of the choice of architectural prototype made it possible to combine samples in the exhibition hall classical art German Middle Ages with works of famous Italian sculptors of the Renaissance.

Excursions to Moscow museums, including the museum fine arts them. A.S. Pushkin can be held in two formats.

The first format of the excursion is, of course, individual. On such an excursion there are usually from 1 to 5 people present.

The goal of tourists is to get as much useful and useful information as possible as part of a small group. interesting information from communicating with a professional tour guide.

After all, you need to understand that an individual excursion takes place in dialogue mode.

Each guest can ask any question to the guide or guide-translator, change the focus of the program, shorten or increase the duration of the tour as a whole.

Group excursion to the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin

The 2nd format of the excursion is an excursion for previously independently formed groups of 1 to 20 tourists.

Group excursions are usually more suitable for adult groups or schoolchildren.

In any case, City Voyage specialists use a completely individual approach to organizing and conducting excursions to the Pushkin Museum.

Cost of excursions and entrance tickets to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts for Russian citizens

The main building of the Pushkin Museum of Art. Gallery of art from Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries. Department of personal collections of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

This price is valid when ordering an excursion 3 weeks or more before the planned date of its implementation..

up to 5 people: 7000 rubles.

from 6 to 15 people: 6000 rubles.

This cost is preliminary and is valid when ordering an excursion 2 weeks or less before the planned date of its conduct.

Excursion services, excursion packages and guide services in Russian for adult tourists.

up to 5 people: 8000 rubles.

from 6 to 15 people: 7000 rubles.

Excursion services, excursion packages and guide services in Russian for schoolchildren and students.

Up to 15 children and 2 accompanying persons: 5000 rubles.

Entrance fees to State Museum Fine arts named after Pushkin are paid additionally.

Adults – 400 rubles / 1 ticket. Children under 18 years old – 100 rubles per ticket.

Duration of the excursion: 1.5 hours.

Excursions to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts for foreigners

Excursions to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts are conducted for Russian and foreign tourists.

Guides-translators can work in almost any language: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic, Persian and others.

The cost of an excursion to the Pushkin Museum named after A.S. Pushkin for foreign citizens

The information is relevant if you plan to order an excursion 3 weeks or more before its date..

7000 rubles excursion service and excursion voucher for a group of up to 15 people, services of a professional guide-translator for foreign language(all our guides have licenses giving the right to conduct excursions). More than 10 years of experience.

The information is valid when ordering an excursion 2 weeks or less before the planned date of its implementation.

Group: adults or schoolchildren, students up to 15 people.

8000 rubles excursion service and excursion voucher for a group of up to 15 people, services of a professional guide-translator in a foreign language (all our guides have licenses giving the right to conduct excursions). More than 10 years of experience.

Excursion programs in the Main building of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for groups and individual tourists

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts hosts thematic and sightseeing excursion programs for adults and children.

Important! Children on excursions are accepted only from 9 years old, 3rd grade of school. School groups at the Pushkin Museum of Art must be accompanied by adults.

Please note that when choosing an excursion topic for children at the Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin needs to be taken very seriously.

Museum Gallery named after. Pushkin is very popular among both Russians and foreigners. Professional guides and translators are always ready to conduct excursions in the Pushkin Museum for foreign citizens in almost any language in the world.

Sightseeing tour of the Museum of Fine Arts

The main story is devoted to the history of the creation of the museum of art, the architectural features of the museum complex, its main exhibits, monuments ancient art and the cultures of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Ancient Egypt and the Middle East.

This excursion gives all tourists the opportunity to see and appreciate with their own eyes the works of art of the Art Gallery named after. A.S. Pushkin.

During the excursion program, the guide focuses on the features of the emergence and development of national schools of fine arts, development European painting in general: Holland, Italy, France, Spain of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Particular attention is paid to icon painting, such styles as classicism, rococo, academicism and neoclassicism.

Introductory tour for children with the Pushkin Museum of Art

Excursion for younger schoolchildren.

Professional tour guides will tell you the basics ancient architecture and art, the emergence of sculpture, graphics, painting and its genres.

Excursion program: Art of the Ancient World

The excursion is dedicated to the peculiarities of the development of art and culture of the Ancient World, such countries as Egypt, Rome, Troy, the Middle East and Greece.

Excursion: The ancient world and its art (Rome and Greece)

The main focus of this excursion is on the origins of the ancient ancient civilizations, the stages of their development, formation and influence on the surrounding world and history as a whole.

An important and interesting thing on this excursion is to consider the features, similarities and differences of the culture and art of the Ancient states of Rome and Greece.

Excursion program: Ancient Egypt, its art and culture

This program is one of the most popular among tourists at the Pushkin Museum of Art.

The excursion examines the stages of development of the art and culture of Ancient Egypt, one of the first Ancient civilizations.

Art of Ancient Greece

In the Greek Hall, tourists will be introduced to the cultural and artistic monuments of Ancient Greece, Mycenae and Crete. During the excursion you will be able to see authentic architectural monuments, which corresponded different stages development of culture in Ancient Greece.

Excursion program Ancient Rome. Culture and art

The subject of the excursion in the Roman Hall will be ancient casts characterizing the development of culture in Ancient Rome, a statue of the Capitoline She-wolf, portraits of Roman emperors.

By studying the art monuments of Ancient Rome, tourists will be able to get acquainted with the features of Roman decorative and applied arts and architecture.

Excursion Art of the Middle Ages

The excursion is very dedicated important stage development of society, an era of one thousand years. This era extended between all famous eras Antiquity and Renaissance.

Of course, the excursion reveals the features of medieval art of Byzantium and European countries, especially France, Italy and Germany.

They will tell you in very detail and interestingly about the Romanesque and gothic styles, the influence of church and religion on the culture and art of the Middle Ages.

Renaissance Art Program

Professional guides during this excursion program reveal new artistic techniques, a new worldview that appeared in the art of the Renaissance.

During the first part of the excursion, icons and altar images, paintings will be examined famous masters Renaissance in Italy.

The second part is devoted to a review of casts famous monuments sculptures of Italy, such masters as Michelangelo, Donatello and others.

Art of Holland and Flanders 17th century

Holland and Flanders existed independently in the 17th century, as two different states. It should be noted that these were two characteristically different schools of art.

During this excursion, our guides will talk about the main features and characteristics of two great art schools.

The works of such masters as Resdahl, Rembrandt, Rubens and others will be considered.

Development of art in Spain and Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries

As part of the excursion program, our specialists will discuss new styles in their stories. artistic arts, which originated in Spain and Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries. These are the styles of Caravaggism, Baroque, Academicism.

In Spain, these trends are represented by the works of Zurbaran, Murillo and others.

The 18th century is characterized by the works of such masters as Canaletto, Guardi, Crespi and others.

Excursion program “Art of France of the 17th century”

During the program, the activities of such masters are discussed French classicism like Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Particular attention during the excursion is paid to French Caravaggism and academicism.

Excursion about art in France of the 18th century and the first third of the 19th century

This program is dedicated to the Rococo style, which clearly and fully reflected court culture the ruling court of France, an era when the art of France had great importance and influence on pan-European tastes and styles.

Excursion to the gallery of art from Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries

Sightseeing tour of the gallery of art of the 19th-20th centuries.

The program reveals in detail the features of the development of art of the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on its main directions: academicism, realism, romanticism, abstractionism, post-impressionism, cubism, fauvism and many others.

Expositions and buildings of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

• The main building of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin,
• Gallery of European and American art of the 19th-20th centuries. Center aesthetic education"Museion"
• Department of personal collections,
• Memorial apartment Svyatoslav Richter,
• Training Art Museum named after I.V. Tsvetaeva.

Time and work schedule of the Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin

The main building of the Pushkin Museum named after. Pushkin. Gallery of art from America and Europe of the 19th–20th centuries.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday: from 11.00 to 20.00.

Thursday, Friday: from 11.00 to 21.00.

Closed on Monday.

About the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin

Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin is one of the most major museums artistic art in Russia.

The exhibitions of the Pushkin Museum of Art are richly represented by plaster casts of antiquity, casts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The authentic works of great foreign masters of painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative arts amaze the imagination and fill the soul with real awe.

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts was founded in August 1898, back in the 19th century.

In May 1912, the first viewer was able to visit the museum.

In 1937, the Museum of Fine Arts was named after A.S. Pushkin.

The founder of the Museum of Art named after A.S. Pushkin is Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, he was also the first director of the museum.

What are some gods with the heads of animals worth?! It’s quite easy to touch this ancient and mysterious culture in a modern metropolis; we have rooms with the laconic names “The Art of Ancient Egypt” and “Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, Coptic Art”, numbers 1 and 6, respectively. In order to keep your perception fresh, we recommend taking a map of the museum or asking the local attendants for directions; believe me, it’s worth it.

Here, even the room itself is stylized as Ancient Egypt: “reed” columns, paintings on the ceiling, patterned floor. Among the exhibits are originals from 4 thousand BC, such antiquity will take your breath away! In the halls of the museum you can see statues, reliefs, mummies of people and animals, household items, amulets, vessels and jewelry. In addition to figurines and sarcophagi, an impressive model of a funeral boat and a cosmetic spoon in the form of a swimming girl, and of course papyri (for example, an excerpt from the “Book of the Dead”). On the more “modern” side are magnificent Coptic fabrics and masks, all of the finest workmanship and worthy of admiration. Meanwhile, imbued with exoticism, we continue our walk!

State Museum of Fine Arts named after. A. S. Pushkin or, as it is more often called, the Pushkin Museum is one of the most significant museums in Moscow, which has collected within its walls a large collection of works of foreign art from ancient world to the present day.

The Pushkin Museum opened its doors for the first time on May 31, 1912. The inspirer and first director was Moscow University professor Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev. The initial collection was formed from copies of ancient sculptures and mosaics of the university Cabinet of Fine Arts and genuine antiquities purchased from the famous Egyptologist V.S. Golenishcheva. Later, the halls were replenished with paintings transferred from other museums and works of art from private collections donated or confiscated after the revolution. Today, the Pushkin Museum’s collection includes more than 670,000 exhibits, of which only 1.5% are available for inspection.

Under the jurisdiction of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin - a whole museum town located in historical center Moscow near Kropotkinskaya metro station. It includes several buildings, including:

• Main building
• Gallery of art from Europe and America of the 19th-20th centuries.
• Department of Personal Collections
• Museum-apartment of Svyatoslav Richter
• Center for Aesthetic Education "Museion"
• Educational Art Museum named after. I.V. Tsvetaeva
• House of graphics

The main building is an architectural monument with a powerful colonnade and a glass roof, built 100 years ago specifically for the museum.

The exhibition here is located on two floors. The first contains genuine rarities of Ancient Egypt, ancient times, golden treasures of Ancient Troy from the excavations of archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, paintings by European masters of the 8th-18th centuries, there are Greek and Italian courtyards - large spaces with cast sculptures. On the second floor, many rooms are devoted to copies of art objects from Ancient Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In addition, original paintings by European artists are exhibited here.

The Egyptian Hall is one of the world's best collections of authentic objects from the times of Ancient Egypt: mummies, sarcophagi, masks, figurines, jewelry and vessels.

Wooden sarcophagus of the nobleman Mahu, holder of a plot of land of the Temple of Amun:

Amenhotep and Rannai - priest and priestess of the god Amun:

Sarcophagus and mummy of Khor-Kha. On foreground– cat mummy:

The next room is dedicated to the art of the Ancient Near East.

Figurine of an adorant from Northern Mesopotamia. Adorant is a figurine made of stone or clay that was placed in a temple so that it would pray for the person who placed it.

Halls of ancient art with a collection of Greek vases and amphorae, mosaics, sculptures and reliefs of Ancient Italy, Cyprus and Rome.

Antefix – ceramic tile with the Gorgon Medusa mask:

Items from the excavations of Panticapaeum - the capital of the Chimerian Bosporus:

The theme of antiquity continues in the Greek courtyard - big hall, filled with casts of famous ancient Greek statues, reliefs and architectural fragments.

Sleeping Ariadne. The marble original is kept in the Vatican.

Another courtyard is Italian, with casts of Renaissance masterpieces.

Equestrian statue – copy bronze monument to the commander-in-chief Bartolomeo Colleoni of Venice.

Michelangelo's famous David. The height of the sculpture is 5.5 meters.

One of the main pearls of the Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin - a collection of works by Rembrandt and artists of his school is located in room No. 10.

Rembrandt "Portrait of an Old Lady" and "Portrait of an Elderly Woman".

Exhibition of paintings Flemish painters 17th century - Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck, Bruegel.

Anthony Van Dyck "Portrait of Adrian Stevens". Flemish master of the early 17th century "Portrait of a Lady with a Fan".

"Ice Skating" by Hendrik Averkamp from the 17th century Dutch Art Hall.

Also on the ground floor, the permanent exhibition presents art from Byzantium, Italy from the 13th to 16th centuries, and Germany and the Netherlands from the 15th to 16th centuries.

Let's go up to the second floor.

The hall, called "Olympic", with casts from classical ancient Greek sculptures.

A copy of the sculpture “Lamentation of Christ” from the hall of Michelangelo Buonarotti. " Greater fame and fame,” according to his contemporary, the great master acquired himself with this work.

Italian sculpture from the 15th century. The decoration of the hall uses decorative elements in the style of the Early Renaissance.

Magnificent Tombstone of the Cardinal of Portugal by Rosselino Antonio. The original is in Florence in the church of San Miniato al Monte.

European art of the Middle Ages.

The cultural heritage of Ancient Italy and Ancient Rome in casts. The masterpieces of this room are the Capitoline She-Wolf, the bust of Marcus Aurelius, and the sculpture “Victoria”.

Greek art late classic and Hellenism. The colossal group “Farnese Bull” - the original is kept in the Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Winged Nike of Samothrace and Aphrodite of Knidos famous sculptor Praxiteles.

Of course, it is difficult to show all the halls and works - there are a lot of them, you can spend more than one hour exploring the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.

Photography is free, but there are a few rules: you cannot use a tripod or flash, and you are prohibited from taking photographs at temporary exhibitions.

On days of particularly significant exhibitions, when masterpieces from collections are brought best museums world, queues are forming at the cash register.

Art Talks on 29 topics are held on Tuesday and Friday afternoons and Thursday evenings in the Main Building, Gallery and Personal Collections Department.

Since 1980 in the museum. Pushkin passes annual festival music “December Evenings of Svyatoslav Richter”, concerts are held in the halls throughout the year.

There are sightseeing and thematic tours of the permanent exhibition; you can take an audio guide, its cost is 250 rubles.

More detailed information see on the official website of the Pushkin Museum: arts-museum.ru

How to get to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

By public transport: metro station Kropotkinskaya, then 2 minutes on foot.

Address: Volkhonka street, building 12.

Opening hours

• Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday - from 11-00 to 20-00
• Thursday, Friday - from 11-00 to 21-00

Monday - closed

Ticket prices for the Main Building

• Adults – 400 rubles
• Preferential categories- 200 rubles
• Children under 16 years old – free