A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

About museum

The Pushkin Museum building was constructed in 1904 to a design by architect Roman Klein with the help of engineers Ivan Rerberg, who was the project's first deputy, and Vladimir Shukhov - the creator of unique light-transmitting coverings. On June 13, 1912 the museum was opened to visitors under the name Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III at the Imperial Moscow University. Copies of works of world art were commissioned from foreign workshops; molds for them were taken from the originals, some of which were the first in the world. In 1923 the museum was separated from the university's jurisdiction, and in 1932 it was renamed the State Museum of Fine Arts; in 1937 it received the name of Alexander Pushkin. In the main building of the Pushkin Museum one can see works of ancient, ancient Egyptian and medieval art, as well as a collection of European painting of the 8th-18th centuries with copies of ancient Greek statues and works by Michelangelo, antique ceramics, and paintings by Caravaggio, Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.