MUSEUM OF MOSCOW

The Museum of Moscow archives the history of Russia’s capital from the Stone Age to the Modern Era, and is among the city’s oldest cultural institutions.
An initiative by the Moscow City Duma in 1896 saw the museum’s creation as the Moscow City Museum, though its name changed in 1920 to the Moscow Communal Museum.
  The museum carried the name History and Reconstruction of Moscow Museum from 1940 to 1986, and subsequently as the Museum of the History of Moscow.
  In 2008, the museum became the “Museum of Moscow” after receiving “Museum Association” status
  Five distinctive and unique divisions today make up the association: The Museum of Archaeology of Moscow, Museum of the English Court, the Mirek Museum of Russian Harmonics, the Museum of the History of Lefortovo as well as the Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki Estate, which belonged to the Golitsyn princes.
  The museum acquired in 2011 the Proviantsk Warehouses, an architectural monument from the 19th century.
  It now continues to develop on that site, while becoming a contemporary, multimedia museum center that organizes the most current exhibitions about Moscow and further afield.
Address: Zubovsky bulvar 2, Moscow

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