Description of the attraction
The Furniture Museum was opened in Moscow on July 17, 2000. The museum is located in a restored estate on Taganskaya Street. The estate belonged to the famous nobleman Nikolai Arshenevsky, even in Catherine's and Pavlov's times. In 1780 he bought the estate from a merchant and manufacturer from Ryazan - Gerasim Ipatiev. Arshenevsky's high position meant that his house was included in the album "The best houses in Moscow that deserve attention", compiled by the architect M. Kazakov. The album contained the facade of the Arshenevsky house and its plan.
In 1802, Arshenevsky died. After him, the house was visited by several owners. The last owner, until the revolution, was Pelageya Potapovna Kokushkina. In Soviet times, there was communal housing in the house, and in the last years of our time - the Voskhod printing house. The house was almost completely destroyed.
The estate was restored by the joint efforts of the Moscow Government, master restorers of the Smirwald company and the Main Directorate for the Protection of Monuments in Moscow. The estate was rebuilt almost from ruins.
The exposition of the modern museum consists of 10 rooms. The exposition is widely represented by samples of furniture made by Russian cabinetmakers from the 18th to the early 20th century in styles from Baroque to Art Nouveau. The museum displays samples of various types of furniture, from a stool made by a serf to a complex bureau with masterly finished decoration. The main theme of the museum is also traced - "Interior and manor furniture of the first half of the 19th century". The manor interiors differed from the ceremonial palace interiors. The manor interiors more reflected the traditional way of life. The ideas of the owners were often inconsistently embodied, depended on wealth and lifestyle. Therefore, they were diverse and had an individual character. In the museum, the interiors are formed in accordance with the metropolitan samples.
At the end of the 18th century, many different pieces of furniture, brought from Europe, appeared in the houses. Workshops worked in Russia, making copies of successful foreign samples. In doing so, the samples were tailored to local needs and tastes. The decoration and the materials from which it was made were simplified. This introduced some naivety into the style.
The museum is doing a lot to preserve unique pieces of furniture. The museum takes part in furniture exhibitions, holds musical evenings and literary readings within its walls. The museum publishes books on furniture, graduates of M. Stroganov.
The Furniture Museum has a hall where you can see furniture made by the craftsmen of the Smirwald company.
Reviews
| All reviews 0 Jorbenadze n.n. 2015-28-04 20:03:25
Moscow Furniture Museum today In the aforementioned mansion, in which the museum has been located since 2000, he is no longer there. But there is a bookmaker's office and a restaurant, Manor. And where the furniture museum has gone, today's inhabitants of this house could not say. I think it was disbanded for the second time in its history.
