Halls of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The main building of the Pushkin Museum – ii. Ticket prices for the Main Building

I invite you to an educational walk for children and adults through the halls of 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 of 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.

The collection of Italian art is 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 Dutch school The 17th century constitutes 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.

In the hall of art of Ancient Egypt, about 800 exhibits are exhibited, representing all periods of the history of the development of the country of the pharaohs, starting from the 4th millennium BC. until the 4th century BC These are wooden and stone sarcophagi, statues, reliefs, household and funerary objects, mummies of people and animals, papyri, vessels and jewelry, figurines of deities and amulets. The hall itself is decorated architectural elements, characteristic of an ancient Egyptian temple: the ceiling is painted, false beams are supported by graceful columns in the form of a bunch of papyrus. This gives the hall special atmosphere and immediately sets up the person entering to communicate with ancient Egyptian art.

The most ancient exhibits of the Egyptian collection of the Pushkin Museum are stone tools (c. VI - V millennium BC), as well as slate palettes and painted clay vessels of the Nagada I - III cultures (IV millennium BC). Along with rich and varied mass material - sacrificial gifts originating from tombs and intended for a prosperous life after death - the Pushkin Museum collection presents outstanding works ancient Egyptian art (the upper part of the statue of the king of the Middle Kingdom Amenemhat III, figurines of the priest Amenhotep and the priestess Rannai, a cosmetic spoon of the New Kingdom and others).

Most of the objects on display have been on display since the opening of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1912 and form the core of one of the world's finest private collections of ancient Egyptian art. It's about about the Russian orientalist Vladimir Semenovich Golenishchev (1856 - 1947). His collection, numbering approx. 8 thousand items, became the first museum acquisition of originals in 1909. In 1913, the museum bought a collection of monuments from the major Moscow collector L.I. Ginzburg, including a relief block depicting mourners. Several truly precious gifts were brought to the museum by Yu.S. Nechaev-Maltsov: these are excellent Fayum portraits, a golden diadem and a statue of Harpocrates. After the October Revolution, the Egyptian collection was replenished with exhibits transferred from various museums and private collections. The Egyptian monuments they owned were donated to the Department of Ancient Orientation by scientists whose activities were inextricably linked with the museum - B.V. Farmakovsky, T.N. Borozdina-Kozmina, A.V. Zhivago. The museum's collection was significantly enriched after the acquisition in 1940 from N.A. Prahov of the collection of his father, philologist and art critic A.V. Prahov, numbering 217 exhibits. In subsequent years, the collection was replenished through donations, archaeological excavations, and periodic purchases.

The first exposition of the hall of Ancient Egypt, timed to coincide with the opening of the Museum of Fine Arts, was made by the outstanding Russian Egyptologist Boris Aleksandrovich Turaev (1868 - 1920), the second, post-war, by Professor Vsevolod Vladimirovich Pavlov (1899 - 1972). The present exhibition opened in 1969. Its inspirer and organizer was the head of the Department of Ancient Orient, Doctor of Art History Svetlana Izmailovna Khodzhash (1923 - 2008).

The monuments in the hall are located in chronological sequence, starting with the most ancient - stone tools VI - V millennium BC (?), slate pallets and painted clay vessels of the Nagada I - III culture (IV millennium BC). The various forms of ceramic products and the presence of paintings give an idea of high level development of the artistic craft of this era. A rare exhibit is a clay dish with the image of a masked hunter holding four dogs on a leash. All objects were found in burials and are evidence of ritual practices of the Predynastic period. Already at this time, the main features of ancient Egyptian art appeared: conditionality religious ideas, convention, symbolism, monumentality, which were fully developed after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into a single state (late 4th millennium BC) - during the period Ancient kingdom(XXVIII-XXIII centuries BC).

The Ancient Kingdom is the time of the first flowering of Egyptian architecture, the final design of the pictorial canon, which Egyptian masters would adhere to for several millennia. During the same period, one of the greatest achievements art - sculptural portrait. The principles of decorating tombs with wall relief images, as well as the peculiarities of rendering the human figure and objects on a plane, are illustrated by a series of blocks from the tombs of the “chief of the royal treasury” Isi, the Egyptian Merit, the Egyptian Tepemankh (all - ca. 25th century BC), “ gardener of the pyramid of King Pepi II" Hiiu (c. 23rd century BC)

The visual creativity of the ancient Egyptians was inextricably linked with religious beliefs and the requirements of the funeral cult. In particular, the portrait resemblance of the image to the person being portrayed was due to the belief that every person has a “double”, or “Ka” - a certain vital essence, which, being immortal, must have a permanent home in some image of the deceased. The idea that all monuments were intended for eternity and should not contain anything accidental or fleeting determined the features of the conventional artistic language of Egyptian plastic art: closedness and undifferentiated volume, static nature, lack of excessive detail. Reliefs and statues of the V-VI dynasty (showcase No. 6) and a free-standing sculptural group the official Uja-dzher and his wife are clear examples of the embodiment of the canonical rules of depicting a person in sculptural images.

Showcase 6 contains individual objects that were placed in the tomb, and a unique exhibit - the mask of Pepi II (XXII century BC, VI dynasty), brought by V.S. Golenishchev from excavations at the site of the pyramid of this king.

The Middle Kingdom (XXII-XVIII centuries BC) is represented by such masterpieces as the portrait of King Amenemhet III (XIX centuries BC) and the stele of the “great steward” Khenenu (XXI-XX centuries BC .) from pinkish limestone.

The upper part of the statue of Amenemhat III brilliantly illustrates best features sculptural portrait of the Middle Kingdom during its heyday - interest in the individual and age characteristics of a person. The viewer can also see small examples of sculptural works (window No. 9), including a portrait of King Senusret II.

Two showcases display objects from the tombs of the Middle Kingdom that were necessary for the deceased in the afterlife - wooden models of funeral barges and figurines of servants (display case No. 10), as well as “magic wands”, magical female figurines, palettes in the shape of animals, small vessels made of stone (showcase no. 9).

The art of the New Kingdom (XVI-XI centuries BC) bears the imprint of triumph Egyptian state after the expulsion of the Hyksos from the country.

The art of this extended period is characterized, on the one hand, by the strengthening of realistic tendencies, interest in depicting nature, the desire to convey movement, and on the other hand, by an increase in decorativeness, refinement and at the same time the formalization of artistic language. These qualities are clearly visible in monuments from the reigns of pharaohs Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV (XIV century BC): in faience vessels and inlays on walls and furniture from Amarna, cosmetic spoons, playing chips, small figurines, as well as in a portrait of a young man from limestone. One of the masterpieces of the collection is distinguished by its exquisite beauty - a cosmetic spoon in the shape of a pink lotus flower, with a handle in the shape of a swimming girl. An excellent quality wooden spoon in the shape of a girl among thickets of papyrus, a wooden oval box with a retractable lid inlaid with earthenware inserts - wonderful examples of the art of ancient Egyptian woodcarving masters.

The undisputed masterpiece of the Egyptian collection of the Pushkin Museum is the paired sculptural group of the priest Amenhotep and his wife priestess Rannai, dating back to the reign of Hatshepsut. The figurines are made of rare ebony, imported to Egypt from southern regions Africa, the eyes of the spouses are inlaid with glassy paste. Slender figures, thin limbs, the presence of exquisite details - gilded jewelry and a luxurious women's wig - bring to us all the unique and recognizable beauty of the best works of ancient Egyptian art.

Showcase No. 14 displays a relief from a private tomb from the late 18th century. in Saqqara depicting mourning for the deceased. The dynamic composition and the depiction of human figures from complex angles give this fragment of the funeral procession drama and expressiveness.

The funeral rite, which played a huge role in the religion of the Egyptians, gave rise to a variety of objects directly related to the funeral cult and ideas about the fate of the deceased after death. These are sarcophagi, canopic jars (vessels for storing the embalmed entrails of the deceased), funeral masks, ushabti figurines and boxes for their storage, figurines of gods. In one of the display cases there is a swaddled mummy of the priest Khor-kha, covered with a net of faience beads, and the head of a woman’s mummy, as well as mummies of sacred animals - a cat and a falcon. Nearby, on the podium, is a set of canopic jars with lids in the form of the heads of the sons of the god Horus. The sarcophagi that are exhibited in the hall belong to different eras, starting from the 3rd millennium BC. (a simple clay box with a relief image of a boy in a fetal position on the lid). The brightest sarcophagi, completely covered with paintings, date back to the New Kingdom and are exhibited in the central part of the hall. Two stone sarcophagi date back to the second half of the 1st millennium BC.

Several display cases display numerous gods of the Egyptian pantheon. They are made of bronze, stone (statues of Osiris in showcases No. 24 and No. 26), small figurines of gods made of carnelian and rock crystal (display case No. 12). The figurine of the god of vegetation Nefertum is cast from silver (display case No. 18), and the sacred ibis of the god Thoth (display case No. 12) is made of white stone, with a bronze head and paws. All figurines are distinguished by high quality casting and fine detail work.

A significant part of the monuments consists of alabaster vessels, faience bowls, painted clay jugs, bronze situlas (ritual vessels) and mirrors, bronze weapons, jewelry made of semi-precious stones and Egyptian faience.

TO Late period(1st millennium BC) include statues and sculptural portraits (display case No. 26). Among them, a granite statue of the queen stands out, whose face has pronounced portrait features (first half of the 7th century BC). Made of solid stone, portraits from the period of the Sais dynasty (second half of the 7th-6th centuries BC) imitate ancient examples and reveal the craftsmen’s desire for perfection of form and ideal processing of the stone surface. The Sais period was a time of new flowering of artistic craft.

The so-called “sculptor's corner” allows you to get an idea of ​​the process of creating reliefs and sculptural works by Egyptian masters: here you can see unfinished reliefs or copies made by students, as well as drawings on pieces of limestone (ostraca).

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Excursions to Moscow museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts. 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, as part of a small group, to receive as much useful and interesting information as possible from communication with a professional guide.

After all, you need to understand that individual tour 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-interpreters 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 dedicated to the history of the creation of the art museum, architectural features museum complex, its main exhibits, monuments of ancient art and culture 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 guides will tell you about the basics of 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 Ancient World, countries such 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.

A year and a half ago, all the impressionists and works of the 20th century were removed from the Pushkin Museum. Now they live in a separate building on the left (formerly the Museum of Personal Collections, now the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th–20th centuries). As a result, on upper floors A lot of space was freed up in the main building - they decided to update the exhibition. All the keepers had something to take out from under the covers - and, of course, everyone wanted it. Although only two collections could increase significantly - the Dutch one, due to the endless and infinitely prolific little Dutchmen (the great ones have been on display for a long time), and the Italian one, where there is something to add to each century (although names not previously presented are mostly familiar only to art historians, and Italianists at that) . As a result, both were added, but in different proportions. But first things first.

Of course, you can’t change the exposure overnight; the process is long. The halls were closed one by one, repaired and replaced, paintings were restored and taken out of storage. They carried the French upstairs and gathered Rembrandt and his school in one hall. To regular visitors of the museum this is unlikely to seem like an amazing metamorphosis - well, the walls were painted, the labels were changed, new shields were made. But if you remember how everything looked last year, it turns out that everything is the same, but not the same. On the ground floor, only the Greek and Italian courtyards remained unchanged (in the first there was a project for the reconstruction of the museum, and in the second there was a Christmas tree, but this is probably not forever). Everything else was mixed up. The left enfilade is now completely occupied by antiquities and antiquity, having supplanted Italian icons and the Early Renaissance. True, the way there still lies through the Fayum portraits, and the “Treasures of Troy,” now included in the permanent exhibition, have long been in the museum under the guise of an exhibition. In the center there is now an entrance to the Italian halls, in the vestibule of which works of Byzantium are displayed. In the hall with Italian Renaissance Cranach and the early Germans are no longer shown. Then, passing the Italian courtyard and passing through the French portico, you find yourself in the northern school (the French used to be here): Cranach, brought from Italy, now has his own separate nook. Further along the enfilade follow separate Flemish and Dutch rooms with corners of Rubens and Rembrandt. Pieter de Hooch appeared in Holland, whose existence no one except the guardians had any idea about. Still on the second floor most The halls are occupied by copies and casts (they, unfortunately, were not touched). But Italians settled in the left wing - academicians, mannerists and Venetian school. A new wonderful Tiepolo, Magnasco and several Veronese (with a school) appeared. The right wing, as mentioned above, was given to the French, who enriched themselves with Lebrun and Lorrain. Overall, the exposure has increased by a third, which is nice. Now Pushkinsky gives me the feeling, like after the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, - as if the history of art consists mainly of antiquity and the mass of Italians, and everything else was just that, little things.

The most amazing thing is that all this beauty will not last long: the museum will soon be closed altogether. TO centenary anniversary(that is, by 2012) Pushkinsky must be reconstructed. The reconstruction project is being carried out by Norman Foster; according to preliminary plans, a huge underground museum quarter will appear on Volkhonka. The ending of this story is unpredictable: until the project goes through all the approvals, the underground museum could turn into a thirty-story shopping center - but we hope this will not happen with Pushkinsky. In the meantime, one unnoticeable reform has already been carried out in the museum’s halls. The fact is that in our museums the principle of inspection is compulsory - thanks to the enfilade system of halls. That is, the visitor cannot see only Rembrandt or only small Dutchmen - to get to them, willy-nilly he has to pass through many different styles, names and eras. Previously, to get into the halls of ancient Assyria, you had to go through the Italian icons, and the entrance to Italy of the 17th–18th centuries lay through the French hall. Now you can separately go to the halls of antiquity or early Italy, or Holland, or late France. Although, to be honest, the museum is so small that if you look at the entire exhibition in one sitting, even enlarged by a third, you will never get tired.