Museums of the Moscow Kremlin

About museum

The Moscow Kremlin – one of the largest architectural and urban ensembles in the world. It stretches across the center of Russia's capital on a high hill above the Moskva River. The height of the Kremlin walls, the narrow loopholes, the battle platforms, the regular spacing of the towers – all testify that, above all, it is a fortress. But once you enter the Kremlin, the impression changes.

On an area of 28 hectares there are spacious squares and beautiful gardens, majestic palaces and churches. A whole town within a town, created over many centuries, which today preserves monuments of Russian architecture from the 14th to the 20th centuries. They form the ensembles of Cathedral, Ivanovskaya, Senate, Palace and Trinity Squares, as well as Spasskaya, Borovitskaya and Dvortsovaya streets. All the old and new squares of the Kremlin form a single urban whole, yet each has its own history and unique architectural character.

The State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve 'Moscow Kremlin' includes the Armory Chamber and the architectural ensemble of Cathedral Square, which comprises the Assumption (Dormition), Archangel and Annunciation Cathedrals, the Church of the Deposition of the Robe, the Patriarch's Palace, the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, as well as exhibition halls in the Assumption Belfry and the One-Column Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace.