Gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard. Single ticket for all venues

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the first state museum in Russia that specializes entirely in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its opening, the museum has expanded its scope of activities many times and received recognition from the general public. Today the museum is one of the most active participants in the artistic life of the capital.

The museum opened its doors on December 15, 1999 with the support of the Moscow Government and the Moscow Department of Culture. The founder and director of the museum was Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts. His personal collection, consisting of more than 2,000 works by famous artists of the 20th century, laid the foundation for the museum's collection. Later, the museum’s funds were significantly replenished, and currently it is one of the most representative collections of Russian art of the 20th century.

Today the museum is located on five sites in the historical center of Moscow. The main building, which houses the permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions, is located on Petrovka Street, in the former mansion of the merchant Gubin, built according to the design of the architect Matvey Kazakov. In addition, the museum has four magnificent exhibition spaces at its disposal:

a five-story building in Ermolaevsky Lane;
spacious gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard;
the ancient building of the Russian Academy of Arts on Gogolevsky Boulevard;
house of merchant Vasily Gorbunov on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street.

Collection

The museum's collection represents the main stages of the development of the avant-garde. Most of the collection consists of works by Russian authors, but the exhibition also includes works by foreign artists: graphic works by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Giorgio de Chirico, sculptures by Salvador Dali, Armand and Arnaldo Pomodoro, paintings by Henri Rousseau and Françoise Gilot, installations Yukinori Yanaga.

The core of the museum's collection consists of works by classics of the Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century. Many works purchased at auctions and in galleries in Europe and the USA were returned to their homeland from abroad. Among them are paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Aristarkh Lentulov, Vladimir Tatlin, Pavel Filonov and Wassily Kandinsky, sculptures by Alexander Archipenko and Ossip Zadkine. In addition, the museum is proud of its unique collection of works by the Georgian primitivist artist Niko Pirosmani.

An impressive section of the exhibition is dedicated to the work of nonconformist artists of the 1960-1980s: Ilya Kabakov, Anatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Oscar Rabin, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Leonid Shvartsman, Oleg Tselkov and others.

The museum supports the development of contemporary art in Russia and is constantly expanding its collection. Now the contemporary art section presents works by Boris Orlov, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov, Valery Koshlyakov, Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Oleg Kulik, Viktor Pivovarov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Andrey Bartenev and other artists.

Operating mode:

Monday-Sunday - from 12:00 to 20:00;
Thursday - from 13:00 to 21:00;
The third Monday of every month is a day off.

Ticket prices

Single ticket for all venues:

standard ticket - 500 rubles;
discount ticket - 200 rubles.

Tickets to Petrovka, 25:

discount ticket - 150 rubles.

Tickets for Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10:

standard ticket - 350 rubles;
discount ticket - 150 rubles.

Tickets for Ermolaevsky Lane, 17:

discount ticket - 100 rubles.

Tickets for Tverskoy Boulevard, 9:

standard ticket - 150 rubles;
discount ticket - 50 rubles.

Tickets for Bolshaya Gruzinskaya, 15:

standard ticket - 250 rubles;
discount ticket - 100 rubles.

Benefits are established for the following groups of visitors: students of secondary and secondary specialized educational institutions, pensioners of the Russian Federation, working disabled people of II and III classes, full-time students of universities of the Russian Federation, persons under 18 years of age, members of large families, conscripts, illegally repressed and rehabilitated citizens of the Russian Federation.

Free entry to all venues: children under 7 years of age, full-time full-time students of art and architectural universities, faculties of universities specializing in the field of art, members of the Academy of Arts, the Association of Art Critics of the Russian Federation and the Unions of Artists, Architects, Designers and Journalists of the Russian Federation, employees of museums of the Russian Federation, members of ICOM, children- disabled people, orphans and children without parental care, unemployed disabled people of class I and II, participants and veterans of the Second World War, students of educational institutions - shelters, rehabilitation centers, centers for social assistance to families and children, heroes of the USSR, heroes of the Russian Federation, full holders of the Order of Glory .

MMSI is considered one of the leading cultural centers of the capital.
At the heart of exhibition activities Moscow Museum of Modern Art - personal collection of Zurab Tsereteli.
The museum owns four buildings in the center of Moscow.
On Petrovka 25 works by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Pavel Filonov, Vladimir Tatlin and many others are stored.
Building in Ermolaevsky Lane is the main exhibition space of MMSI; original and significant exhibitions of the project are held here.
Buildings on Gogolevsky and Tverskoy boulevards are used for holding interesting symposiums, exhibitions and creative meetings.
All information The museum is available in English.

Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMMA)- the first state municipal museum in Russia demonstrating Russian and foreign art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Founded in 1999 with the support of the Moscow Government and the Department of Culture, MMSI has been considered one of the leading cultural centers in the capital for more than 15 years.

The concept of exhibition activities is based The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a personal collection of Zurab Tsereteli, a famous sculptor and president of the Russian Academy of Arts, which allows us to trace the main stages in the development of modern Russian and foreign art. The museum's policy involves a gradual change in thematic exhibitions and the organization of special projects aimed at enabling visitors with different levels of experience to perceive various forms of contemporary art.

The Museum of Modern Art owns four buildings, located around the Boulevard Ring in the center of Moscow.

Main building - on Petrovka, 25. It houses part of the museum's permanent collection and hosts temporary exhibitions. The building is equipped with special equipment for people with disabilities. In recent years it has been undergoing large-scale reconstruction.
Five floors given over to the needs of the museum in a house from the early 20th century at the address: Ermolaevsky Lane, 17(MMSI in Ermolaevsky). This building is now the main exhibition space of MMSI.
Gallery at 9
Ancient building Russian Academy of Arts at Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10 also built according to the design of Matvey Kazakov and serves as a venue for numerous international exhibition projects, symposiums and conferences .

Petrovka, 25

At Petrovka, 25, exhibitions are held regularly. This is symbolic, since the former merchant mansion, built at the end of the 18th century, became at the beginning of the 20th century the alma mater for many outstanding cultural figures of that time - it seems to preserve their shadows and voices. The rich museum collection includes works by Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Pavel Filonov, Vladimir Tatlin and many others, whose works were purchased at auctions and in galleries in Europe and the USA and returned to their homeland.

The MMMA on Petrovka offers works by Russian avant-garde artists, as well as works by their foreign colleagues. Thus, the museum’s collection contains masterly graphics by Fernand Léger, Giorgio de Chirico and works by Salvador Dali and Arman. Here the works of the artist Niko Pirosmani and the works of leading nonconformist artists of the 1960s–1980s Ilya Kabakov, Oscar Rabin, Anatoly Zverev and others found their home. The museum strives to show a panorama of modern cultural life and therefore does not remain aloof from the latest trends, replenishing its a collection of works by representatives of contemporary art - Viktor Pivovarov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Dmitry Prigov, etc.

Exhibitions on Petrovka, 25 are constantly updated, and therefore you can visit here many times, learning new talented works by artists of the 21st century and past times. Thus, at one of the exhibitions the projects of Antonio Gaudi were presented (many unique drawings and models of buildings that have become the adornment of Barcelona), and at the other - an interactive installation by contemporary artist Alexandra Dementieva: examples of the latest technological method of creating images.

Ermolaevsky, Gogolevsky, Tverskoy

The MMSI site on Ermolaevsky Lane hosts no less original and significant exhibitions. As many as five floors were dedicated to the needs of the museum in a building from the early 20th century, so the building in Ermolaevsky is the main exhibition space of the MMSI. In 2017, visitors saw here the retrospective project of Valery Aizenberg “MIGRATIO”, demonstrating contemporary Russian art through the prism of the work of the brightest artist of the 80s, as well as the anniversary exhibition of the outstanding photo artist Sergei Borisov “Zeitgeist” in intriguing black and white colors, a large-scale video installation by Alexandra Mitlyanskaya “Between Past and Future” and much more.

The ancient building of the Russian Academy of Arts on Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10 serves as a venue for numerous international exhibition projects, symposiums and conferences.

Gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard, 9, located in the space of the former creative workshop of Zurab Tsereteli, well remembers its owner, his guests and the atmosphere of creativity that reigned here, so today the most significant and conceptual events of Moscow cultural life take place there.

Museum mission

MMSI considers one of its tasks to be the organization of an extensive exhibition program, thanks to which one can see both retrospectives of famous artists of the 20th century and works by emerging masters of visual culture, and in addition, attend events as part of festivals of various sizes. The museum actively cooperates with young artists, supporting their endeavors in the two-year School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops”, located in the building on Petrovka, 25. Here you can listen to a course of lectures on Russian and foreign art of the 20th and 21st centuries, get acquainted with the art market and new technologies visual arts, try to understand the current problems of modern culture. Among other things, the museum also offers numerous children's programs: for example, the art studio "Fantasy" welcomes children from 5 to 12 years old, conducts children's master classes, excursions and training courses.

The brainchild of Zurab Tsereteli at Petrovka 25 is a museum of modern art, or rather, one of four buildings allocated by the Moscow authorities to the president of the Academy of Arts under their patronage. The department in question occupies a historical building, and the museum entrance significantly changes its appearance.

Considering the entrance to the museum, one should note the massiveness, even cumbersomeness of a simple architectural element. Wedge-shaped stone blocks stylized as antiquity with imitation of rock carvings hang over the entrance, completely violating the appearance of the building of the late 18th century as planned by the great Matvey Kazakov. The fact is that due to the proximity to the temple on the opposite side of the street, the architect placed the front part of the building in the courtyard and now would not be able to recognize his creation.

The Museum of Contemporary Art has changed the appearance of the courtyard of the building at 25 Petrovka Street beyond recognition. This is clearly confirmed by a slider with photographs of Tsereteli’s works placed on the square adjacent to the building. The stylized images of his characters, characteristic of the sculptor’s artistic style, and even in large quantities, leave an ambiguous impression. No matter who Zurab Konstantinovich portrays, the result is something massive and rather conventional.

And Tsereteli’s sculptures depict a variety of people; the images are real, fictitious, and generalized. Shostakovich still looks like himself, but Vysotsky is almost a caricature. Don Quixote and his squire are generally assembled from scrap metal; I would like to believe that this is not the creation of the country's main artist. The remaining sculptures represent abstract participants in folk games, musicians and townspeople of old Georgia.

The main staircase of the mansion, built by Kazakov for the factory owner from the Urals Gubin, has not suffered from modern artistic trends. The gray stone steps, classic white stone railings, arched entrance and the same window openings above remain.

Going up to the museum halls, visitors have time to take a break from the depressing impression that many of them have in the courtyard of the mansion. The sunlight penetrating from outside not only illuminates the path ahead, but also lifts the mood before viewing the exhibition.

As visitors climb the stairs, they are presented with ceiling and wall paintings made using a rather rare painting technique. Various military symbols and attributes, plant elements and other things according to the creator’s plans are depicted. The paintings are similar to stucco or bas-reliefs, which is achieved using a special decoration technique.

Drawing using the grisaille technique, which means using paint of only one color, allows you to achieve a three-dimensional effect through different shades. This technology is used not only in painting walls and ceilings, but also in engravings, stained glass, decorating dishes and dyeing fabrics.

The purpose of the visit of only a small part of the visitors to the historical building is the main institution on Petrovka Street 25 - the Museum of Contemporary Art with its permanent exhibition, although Tsereteli's picturesque collection includes many outstanding works by the classics of the Russian avant-garde of the last century and the present.

Now the exhibition has been presented: Antonio Gaudi. Barcelona. The work of the architect of the capital of Catalonia appeared before Russians for the first time.

The exhibition is preceded by a description of Gaudi's life and creative biography, performed in chronological order.

Although the original purpose of our review was not the exhibition of the magnificent architect, it would be unforgivable to pass by such significant exhibits, because our readers still have time to visit this rare event. The following slider contains photographs both from the exhibition and on the way to Spanish materials.

You can look at historical materials about the famous architect, his drawings and even models of the cakes he made - great masters are often unpredictable in the manifestations of their talents. By the way, confectionery decorations can be compared to mosaics, which Gaudi actively used in his works. The main exhibits, of course, are models of the buildings he built, as well as their images.

The exhibition presents a model of one of the most significant works of Antoni Gaudí of the civil plan - the residential building of the Barcelona Mila family, after the completion of which Gaudí completely switched to working on the project of the Church of the Redemption of the Holy Family - Sagrada Familia..

The public nicknamed the House of Mila, this peculiar quaint structure, the Quarry (in Spanish La Pedrera) for the unusual design solution as a whole, as well as for the original construction of the supporting part and design.

The partially exposed interior of the building reveals its internal structure, in which Gaudí innovatively used a monolithic reinforced concrete structure, where the walls are not load-bearing elements.

You can see a model of one of the best creations of the architect Gaudi - the famous house of the Mila family (Kamenolomni) on Petrovka 25 - the Museum of Modern Art has organized an exhibition of his work.

The uneven walls of the building look like sea waves, and the forged bars of the balconies are simply individual works of art. The house has two courtyards, where the windows of all apartments face in addition to communication with the street space. This allows you to do without air conditioning in the hottest weather.

The roof of the Quarry is decorated with many architectural elements, among which films are even being filmed. In the ancient hall of the mansion-museum, a certain screen was placed above the model of an unusual house, either providing a reflection of the roof for inspection, or protecting a valuable exhibit from the collapse of particles of the ceiling painting due to unfinished restoration.

An ancient colonnade of the Corinthian order adorns one of the premises of the Museum of Modern Art. This is the little that remains of the decorations of the former palace of the Ural factory owner.

Next, our slider presents individual fragments of the exhibition display, reflecting the main stages of Gaudi’s work. You can see an authentic set of the architect's drawing tools (ready room), as well as models of many buildings in Barcelona built according to his designs.