Description of the attraction
The Museum of the History of Moscow was founded in 1896 and was called the Museum of Moscow City Economy. The initiator of the creation of the museum was the City Duma. The collection was based on the exhibits of the Moscow pavilion at the All-Russian Art and Industry Fair in Nizhny Novgorod, held in 1896. One of the Krestovsky water towers was given for the museum exposition.
Since 1920, the museum began to bear the name "Moscow Communal Museum", and in 1921 it was moved to the Sukharev Tower. In the thirties, the main theme of the museum's exposition was the General Plan for the reconstruction of Moscow in 1935-1947. In 1935, the tower was demolished, and the museum moved to the Church of St. John the Evangelist under an elm tree on New Square.
In 1947, for the first time, the museum's exposition was built in accordance with the chronology of events. The exposition existed in this form until 1970. The museum has been bearing its present name "Museum of the History of the City of Moscow" since 1986. Since 2006, the museum has occupied the well-known architectural complex "Provision Warehouses" on Zubovsky Boulevard. In 2008 the museum received a new status - an association.
The Museum Association "Museum of Moscow" is a complex of museums. It includes: the Moscow Archeology Museum, the English Compound Museum, the A. Mirek Museum of Russian Harmonica, the Vlakhernskoye - Kuzminki Museum-Estate of the Golitsyn, the Lefortovo History Museum, the Museum of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Gilyarovsky Museum.
The funds of the museum number about one million items. The museum's collection includes the richest archaeological collections, a large collection of graphic materials, including a number of paintings by Vasnetsov "Old Moscow", paintings by Makovsky, Aivazovsky, Surikov, Polenov, Pasternak, Falk and Nesterov. Due to the small number of exhibition areas and the huge number of exhibits, the museum constantly arranges changing exhibitions from its rich funds.
The museum conducts a huge research work, archaeological excavations, publishes scientific works concerning the archaeological monuments of Moscow and the Moscow region.
