A.S. Pushkin State Museum

About museum

The A.S. Pushkin State Museum is one of the major cultural centers of Moscow and Russia. It comprises the main museum and five branches: the memorial apartments of A.S. Pushkin and A. Bely, the I.S. Turgenev Museum, the V.L. Pushkin House-Museum and exhibition halls on Denezhny Lane. The main museum complex is located in a 19th-century architectural monument at 12/2 Prechistenka Street. It houses permanent exhibitions, exhibition halls, a reading room, concert and conference halls. The museum holds open storage collections of rare books; paintings, graphic and miniature portraits of the 18th–19th centuries; porcelain, bronze, art glass and ceramics; and genealogical materials. It also presents unique private collections donated to the museum: the "Library of Russian Poetry of I.N. Rozanov", the "Collection of P.V. Gubar", the "Cabinet of T.A. Mavrina and N.V. Kuzmin", and the "Cabinet of Drawings by Nadya Rusheva".