Moscow Art Galleries

Tretyakov Art Gallery
Home to the world's most extensive collection of Russian art, including everything from icons by the legendary Andrey Rublyov to portraits of some of Russia's most prominent 18th and 19th century public figures.

Central House of Artists and the New Tretyakov Gallery
Houses two large galleries including the New Tretyakov's unrivalled collection of Soviet art, featuring everything from avant-garde and constructivist canvasses from the 1920s, to the garish Stalinist kitsch of the 1930s and the "new wave" underground art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
A less extensive equivalent to St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum boasts an impressive collection or artifacts and artwork ranging from Roman antiquities to original canvasses by Gauguin

Roerich Museum
Fascinating and unique museum dedicated to the artistic works and philosophical ideals of Nicholas Roerich, the painter, thinker and explorer who undertook numerous pioneering expeditions to Central Asia, Tibet, India, Manchuria and Mongolia during the 1920s and 1930s.

Museum of Private Collections
Located right next door to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, this rather eclectic museum exhibits various private collections, which were acquired during Soviet times. Features works by Salvadore Dali, Henri Matisse, Ilya Repin, Alexander Rodchenko and turn-of the century ballet set designs by Alexander Benois and Boris Kustodiev.

Museum of Modern Art
Based on the original collection of the former Academy of Arts Director Zurab Tsereteli, today the museum boasts over 1,500 works of 20th century European art covering all the major schools, from avant-garde, constructivism, futurism and cubism to realism.

Moscow Arts Center
Showcases paintings, graphics and photo exhibitions by a wide range of modern and contemporary artists.

Andrei Ryblyov Museum (inside the Andronikov Monastery)
The museum is named for the monestary's most celebrated monk- fifteenth century icon painter Andrei Ryblyov. Strangely, there are not any of Rybylov's own icons here, but visiting is worthwhile to see the collection from the Moscow, Rostov and Novgorod schools of painting.

Moscow House of Photography
The Moscow House of Photography was founded in 1996. It became the first Russian museum fully and thoroughly representing the development and the present state of the photographic art in Russia. The unique Museum has chosen the unusual for Russian museums strategy of festivals and broad scale projects.