State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky

About museum

The Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky is the successor to the Library-Museum, which was opened in 1937 by order of the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR. In 1967 the museum was renamed the State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky and moved to another building, where in 1919–1930 the poet's working study was located. In 2013 the building was closed for major repairs. In 2017 the 'Apartment on Bolshaya Presnya' was opened, where the cultural and educational project 'Daughter' was launched. The museum houses 50,149 exhibits, distributed among five main collections: memorial, manuscript and documentary, photographic negatives, rare books, and visual arts. The memorial collection contains memorial items, household objects, furniture, and family relics of the Mayakovsky family. The visual arts collection allows visitors to become acquainted with the work of V. V. Mayakovsky and his contemporaries. The photographic negatives collection contains photographs of the poet, members of his family, and other poets and writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.