How to explore Moscow museums for free?

Address: Bolshaya Cheryomushkinskaya str., 24, bld 3.
The nearest metro station is “Akademicheskaya”.
Opening hours: The museum is open daily (except Friday) from 10:00 to 18:00, on Thursday is from 10:00 to 21:00.
The museum is closed on Friday and the last Thursday of each month.

Address: 38/2, Kutuzov Avenuest. (Rus: ул. Кутузовский проспект, д. 38, стр. 2)

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Address: 25, Petrovka st. (Rus: ул. Петровка, д. 25).

Museum’s collection currently consists of over 80 thousand prints and negatives, representing all photographic techniques: from the earliest daguerreotypes of the mid-19 century, ferrotypes and ambrotypes to the newest digital technologies.

Address: 16, Ostozhenka st. (Rus: ул. Остоженка, д. 16).

Equipped for people with disabilities

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The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the rise, development and fall of the Soviet labor camp system and its political, administrative and economic role.

Address: 9/1, 1st Samotyochniy lane (Rus: 1-й Самотечный пер., д.9, стр.1).

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Address: 52, Svobody str. (Rus: Ул. Свободы, д. 52)

Address: 14, prospekt Mira, str 10 (Rus: ул. проспект Мира, д. 14, стр.10)

Address: 13, proezd Sarinskiy (Rus: ул. Саринский пр-д, 13,)

Address: 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya str., 18
Since 2017, the Alfred Mirek Museum of Russian Harmonica has been a branch of the A. N. Scriabin Memorial Museum of the State Budgetary Institution of Moscow.

Address:36/1,apt.24, Krasnaya Presnya, (Rus: ул. Красная Пресня, д. 36, стр. 1, кв. 24)

Museum website (Russian language)

The exhibits demonstrate the process of the T-34 creation, introduce visitors to the people who designed the legendary tank and whose names were kept secret for many years.

Address: Sholokhovo Village 89A (деревня Шолохово, дом 89А)

Equipped for people with disabilities

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The museum collection includes classical and modern sculptures. Its founder Alexander Bourganov is a gifted contemporary artist, the Full Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Doctor of the History of Art.

Besides, the museum offers free admission on the international museum day and on Museum Night.

Address: 15/9, Bolshoy Afanasyevsky lane (Rus: Большой Афанасьевский переулок, дом 15, стр. 9).

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Address: 11, Bolshoi Nikolopeskovsky lane (Rus: Большой Николопесковский переулок, д. 11).

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Tsaritsyno is the largest museum-reserve, historical and cultural monument of Moscow which occupies the area of over 1,730 ac (700 hectares). Its heart is the largest palatial complex in Russia – the residence of Catherine the Great. Learn more about Tsaritsyno and how to get there.

Entrance to the park is free of charge

Address: 1, Dolskaya st. (Rus: ул. Дольская, д. 1).
Tsaritsyno website

The museum introduce visitors to the life and activities of Vladimir Vysotsky. Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (1938 – 1980) was a Soviet singer-songwriter, poet, and actor.

Address: 3, Visotskogo str. (Rus: ул. Высотского, д. 3)

Museum website (Russian language)

Address: 15, Small Georgian (Rus: ул. Малая Грузинская, д. 15)

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Moscow’s Gorky Park Museum is a combination of an outdoor public space and a history museum.The park’s Main Entrance gate incorporates Russian history and modern technology, such as Oculus Rift, to create an interactive experience.
Whether inside the Main Entrance arch or outside in the open air, the Gorky Park Museum is a visual spectacle. The grounds outside the arch contain fountains, sculptures and landscape art and the arch itself presents an excellent view from above which is not to be missed.

Address: Krymsky Val, 9

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Address: 21/2, st. Klyazminskaya, house (Rus: ул. Клязьминская, д. 21, корп. 2).

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State Darwin Museum is:
– The largest museum of natural science that occupies 3 buildings with the total area more than 20 000 sq. m;
– Modern exposition illustrating different evolution processes (5 000 sq. m);
– Collections including about 400 000 exhibits;
– More than 50 exhibitions a year in exhibition halls with the total area about 1000 sq. m.

Address: Ulitsa Vavilova, 57

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The Kuskovo estate  is an example of a typical 18th century Moscow residence. More than 20 unique monuments of architecture have been preserved including an Italian museum, a Dutch palace, a church, etc.

Address: 2, Yunosti st. (Rus: ул. Юности, д. 2).

Disabled people can currently visit: the Palace and the Grotto

Kuskovo website

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 – 1837) is the greatest Russian poet who is considered to be the founder of modern Russian literature.

The exposition occupies the whole 2 floors of the old house. The premises of the first floor are used for the exposition “Pushkin and Moscow”. The 2nd floor is occupied by the memorial Pushkin chambers.

Address: 53, Arbat Str. (Rus: ул.  Арбат, д. 53).

Museum website (Russian language)

Kolomenskoye is a former residence of Moscow Grand Princes and Russian Tsars. The park has a lot to offer to visitors. The most remarkable landmark is the church of the Ascension built in 1532. Since 1994 it is on the list of the World heritage of UNESCO. Another “must see” attraction of the Kolomenskoye park is the Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the great monument of Russian wooden architecture.

Entrance to the park is free of charge

Address: 39, Andropova ave. (Rus: проспект Андропова, д. 39).
Kolomenskoye website

Address:12, Nemchinova, (Rus:ул. Немчинова 12)
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It is a country residence of Russian Tsars which comprise the architectural monuments of the end XVII century. The main attraction is the forest, which is considered the largest green area of the city. The estate is located on the amazing island that was artificially created by the order of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov.

Address: 2/14, Gorodok imeni Baumana. (Rus: Городок имени Баумана, 2/14).

Izmaylovo website

The Lublino estate is the monument of the palace and park art of the 18-19 centuries. The interiors of N. Durasov’s palace show everyday life of the estate, the culture and traditions of Russian nobility.

Address: 1/1, Letnyaya st. (Rus: ул. Летняя, д. 1, корп. 1).

Besides, the museum offers free admission on the days of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Moscow, on the international museum day, on Museum Night, and on Night of Art.

Lyublino website

Address:10, Maly Golovin Lane, (Rus:ул. Малый Головин переулок, 10)

ALWAYS free of charge

The museum is dedicated to the War in Afghanistan.

Address: 12 1st Vladimirskaya Street, Block 1

Museum website (Russian language)

The gallery hosts works of Ilya Glazunov, contemporary Russian artist. Famous works: Russia the Eternal, The 20th Century Mystery, The Ruining of the Temple on Easter Night, illustrations to the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Address: 13, Volkhonka st. (Rus: ул. Волхонка, д. 13)

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Address: 2, Nizhnyaya Radishchevskaya str. (Rus:ул. Нижняя Радищевская, д. 2)

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Address: 6, Borisoglebsky Lane (Rus: ул. Борисоглебский пер, д. 6. )

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The exhibits of the museum complex, with the help of modern technologies, demonstrate the history of space acchievements, based on scientific facts.

Besides, the museum offers free admission on the days of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Moscow, on the international museum day, and on the Museum Night.

Address: 111, Mira ave. (Rus: проспект Мира, д. 111)

Equipped for people with disabilities

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Address: 14, Tverskaya st. (Rus: ул. Тверская, д. 14)

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Address:11-V, Z elenograd, st. Gogol (Rus: Зеленоград, ул. Гоголя, д.11-В)

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The gallery houses more than 900 works of Alexander Shilov, who painted portraits of the leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia including Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, etc.

Address: 5, Znamenka st. (Rus: ул. Знаменка, д. 5).

Equipped for people with disabilities

Gallery website (Russian language)

New Manege is a big exhibition hall where different types of expositions are being held.

Address: Georgievsky lane., 3/3. (Rus: Георгиевский переулок, 3/3).

Equipped for people with disabilities

New Manege website

The museum is a unique repository of Moscow artistic culture of XVIIIth-XIXth centuries. The exposition includes portraits, painting, graphics, applied art of the period.

Address: 10, Shcetininsky lane. (Rus: Щетининский переулок, д. 10)

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Address: 8, Kuzminskaya (Rus: ул. Кузьминская, 8 )

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The Bulgakov Museum in Moscow is a writer’s house museum which commemorates the life and work of author Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov in an apartment where he lived in Moscow, Russia, and in which he set portions of his novel The Master and Margarita.

Besides, the museum offers free admission on the days of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Moscow, on the international museum day, on Museum Night, and on Night of Art.

Address: 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street (Rus: Большая Садовая улица, 10)

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Address: 7A, Nikitsky Boulevard (Rus: ул. Никитский бульвар, д. 7А. )

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(all museums included in this association):
– Architectural complex “Proviantskie shops” – Zubovsky Boulevard, 2
– English courtyard – Varvarka str., 4a
– Museum of Archeology of Moscow – Manezhnaya Square, 1a
– Museum of History of Lefortovo-Kryukovskaya str., 23
– Gilyarovsky Center

Address: Rostokinskaya str., 1
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Address: Moscow, Volgogradsky Prospekt, bld 168D, Kuzminki metro station

Address: VDNH Metro station, arch of the main entrance to VDNH