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All-Russia Decorative Art Museum

All-Russia Decorative Art Museum
Hidden in a courtyard, this museum maintains more than 200 000 pieces of decorative and folk art from all over the Russia. There Read_on (No Comments)

Andrey Rublyev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art

Andrey Rublyev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art
Housed in the grounds of Andronikov Monastery, this museum is dedicated to the art of the Russian icon throughout the ages. Although none of the famed Rublyev's work is here, the icons in the collection are still beautiful. Read_on (No Comments)

Borodino Battle Panorama Museum

Borodino Battle Panorama Museum
Founded 150 years after one of the most famous battles in human history the Borodino Battle museum is not to be missed. It has a collection of weapons, ammunition, uniforms and graphics, but the main feature is the round canvas painting, 115m wide and 15m high. Read_on (3 Comments)

Burganov's House

Burganov's House
This is hands down one of the most inspiring artistic spaces in Moscow and referring to it as a 'museum', does it a grave injustice. Read_on (2 Comments)

Cold War Museum (Bunker 42 on Taganka)

Cold War Museum (Bunker 42 on Taganka)
This top secret bunker is located 18 floors beneath Moscow in the Taganskaya area. So close to the metro, there are not only adjoining tunnels but carriages rattling past fill the concrete passageways with a whole lot of groaning noisy sound. Read_on (2 Comments)

Cosmonautics Museum

Cosmonautics Museum
Tucked under the huge monument to the Soviet Union’s race to the stars is this museum (sadly only in Russian) of all things cosmos. Read_on (No Comments)

Darwin Museum

Darwin Museum
Even if you aren’t a fan of stuffed animals and taxidermy, this is still an interesting museum to go to. It consists of three floors that fit into the theme of evolution. Read_on (No Comments)

Department of Private Collections

Department of Private Collections
The rooms of this wonderfully-renovated and well-lit museum are each dedicated to the private collections of a particular Russian collector or artist. Read_on (No Comments)

Experimentanium

Experimentanium
This museum is more an interactive classroom of infuriating puzzles, games and physics come to life. Designed with curious children in mind it’s a hands on place which aims to fascinate its guests with the wonders of science. Read_on (No Comments)

Fyodor Shalyapin's Memorial Estate

Fyodor Shalyapin's Memorial Estate
Fyodor Shalyapin’s name and voice rings out over Russian theatrical cultural history like no other - he is essentially the Anna Pavlova of the opera world. Read_on (No Comments)

Great Patriotic War Museum 1941-1945

Great Patriotic War Museum 1941-1945
Dedicated to the Great Patriotic War or World War II as it is known in the west, this museum opened in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the Great Victory. Read_on (No Comments)

GULAG History Museum

GULAG History Museum
The full comprehension of the GULAG is a discomforting experience to say the least and the lack of English will do little to prevent you from being thoroughly chilled by the tragic story this museum has to tell. Read_on (No Comments)

History of Moscow Museum

History of Moscow Museum
Two rooms outline the history of Moscow from medieval farming ground to the building of the Kremlin through to the rise of commercial Moscow in the 19th century. Read_on (No Comments)

Icon House

Icon House
One of the best icon collections in the city. The icon house holds over two thousand pieces of art, including rare icons such as the 15th Century icon of Theotokos of Georgia and icons belonging to Russia's last Tsar. Read_on (No Comments)

Lefortovo History Museum

Lefortovo History Museum
A shame there is no specific information here about daily life in the Nemetskaya Sloboda, the Foreign Suburb for expats under the Russian Tsars. Read_on (No Comments)

Lenin Funeral Train

Lenin Funeral Train
For Lenin fans and the curious, the funeral train arrived into Paveletsky Station on January 23, 1924 bearing the corpse of the founder of the Communist Party. Read_on (No Comments)

Lights of Moscow

Lights of Moscow
A museum about street lamps?! Sounds dull? Not when you are controlling the lighting effects yourself it’s not! This small and eccentric little place devoted to the history of Moscow street lighting, is as interactive as it is unusual. Read_on (No Comments)

Matryoshka Museum

Matryoshka Museum
This two room museum reminiscent of a school art room has free admission and gives the chance to really see the matryoshki (Russian dolls) without having an avid seller talking at twenty miles an hour trying to get a sale out of you. Read_on (No Comments)

Moscow Planetarium

Moscow Planetarium
Space fanatics prepare to be wowed - the long and expensive renovation of this historic planetarium has yielded stunning results. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum of Moscow. Proviantskie Sklady

Museum of Moscow. Proviantskie Sklady
This supplementary branch of the phenomenally big History of Moscow Museum contains four different exhibitions, whose only unifying theme is the city. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum of Unique Dolls

Museum of Unique Dolls
The art of doll making in Russia, Germany and England over the last two centuries receives special attention here. Even though there are just two rooms, these glass cabinets are packed with an army of traditional wax, plastic and cloth figures. Read_on (No Comments)

Nikolay Roerich Museum

Nikolay Roerich Museum
Nikolai Roerich and his family are possibly some of the most important Russian anthropologists of the past 100 years. Travelling Read_on (No Comments)

Polytechnical Museum

Polytechnical Museum
This enormous museum covers the whole of Russia’s advance towards the technological age. The history of the development Read_on (No Comments)

Pushkin Fine Arts Museum

Pushkin Fine Arts Museum
Opened to the public in 1912, this museum was primarily intended as an educational facility. Coming from the fashion of that time, it houses a lot of the world's art in the form of plaster casts. Read_on (No Comments)

Romanov Boyar House in Zaryadye

Romanov Boyar House in Zaryadye
Before they were the Tsars of All Russia, the Romanovs were a rich boyar (merchant) family with a manor not far from the Kremlin. Read_on (No Comments)

Russian Academy of Arts - Tsereteli Art Gallery

Russian Academy of Arts - Tsereteli Art Gallery
It’s called the Russian Academy of Arts but informally known as the Tsereteli gallery as the building is stuffed full of the controversial Georgian artist's garish and wacky over-sized art works. Read_on (No Comments)

Sakharov Museum

Sakharov Museum
Thought provoking and contemplative, this museum should be on the list for those interested in the life of Sakharov, Russia’s Nobel Peace Prize winning physicist and human rights campaigner. Read_on (No Comments)

Schusev State Museum of Architecture

Schusev State Museum of Architecture
Without a permanent collection on display, this museum focuses on putting together comprehensive, temporary exhibits on both Russian and international architecture. Read_on (No Comments)

Soviet Arcade Games Museum

Soviet Arcade Games Museum
This is probably the geekiest museum you can find in Moscow, and if you have very little knowledge of Soviet arcade games (which Read_on (No Comments)

State Central Museum of Contemporary Russian History

State Central Museum of Contemporary Russian History
Start early in the day with this one. There's a whole century of the most turbulent, convoluted, well documented history to be seen and absorbed. Read_on (No Comments)

State History Museum

State History Museum
Right on Red Square, this museum consists of two floors offering an extensive foray into Russian history from the ice ages of the mammoths right up to the 19th century. Read_on (No Comments)

State Museum of Oriental Art

State Museum of Oriental Art
This collection stretches across the whole of the Asian continent, with metal works and ceramics from ancient Persia, India, and South-East Asia, as well as large collections of costumes and art from Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan. Read_on (No Comments)

Tchaikovsky Museum

Tchaikovsky Museum
Dedicated to the life, times and music of the man who brought the world Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and the Nutcracker, the operas Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades and of course the 1812 Overture. Read_on (No Comments)

The House on the Embankment

The House on the Embankment
Be sure to take a Russian-speaker with you along to this little apartment/museum/office, as if you don’t know Russian you will miss out on a lot of the experience. Read_on (No Comments)

The Moscow History Museum of railway transport

The Moscow History Museum of railway transport
The Moscow History Museum of railway transport is a hit with train-spotters and rail enthusiasts. Hidden around the tracks of the Rizhskaya train station are dozens of old Russian steam trains. Read_on (No Comments)

Tretyakov Gallery

Tretyakov Gallery
For visitors anxious to uncover the mysteries of the famous 'Russian soul', the Tretyakov Gallery is the place to start. Read_on (No Comments)

Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val

Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val
Dedicated to Russian art of the 20th Century, this is the extension part of the Tretyakov project. And a worthy addition it is. Read_on (No Comments)

Victor Vasnetsov House Museum

Victor Vasnetsov House Museum
Incongruously plonked down in amongst a group of Soviet high-rises sits 19th Century painter Viktor Vasntesov’s romantic little wooden house. Read_on (No Comments)

Vodka History Museum

Vodka History Museum
The Vodka Museum is located inside the Izmailovo Kremlin. Once you reach the Izmailovsky market entrance, just follow the signs. Read_on (1 Comment)

Zurab Tsereteli Museum-Studio

Zurab Tsereteli Museum-Studio
Tsereteli’s working studio where he stores yet more of the paintings and sculptures that now litter Moscow's parks and streets is another bizarre den crammed full of the Georgian artist's extravagant works. Read_on (No Comments)

Institute of Russian Realist Art

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If you are a fan of realist art and haven’t yet exhausted your interest with a visit to the Tretyakov Gallery, then it is well worth making the trek down here to see Russia’s single largest private collection of realist art. Read_on (No Comments)