Museum of the International Numismatic Club

About museum

The Museum of the International Numismatic Club opened its doors in 2015 in the restored Yusupov–Zinoviev chambers — a monument of Russian architecture of the 17th–18th centuries. The exhibition is based on the private collection of Vagit Alekperov and includes around 6,000 coins.

The exhibits come from the most famous private collections of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, Count Emeric von Gutten-Chapsky and other outstanding collectors. Some coins were returned to the country from abroad. This happened, for example, with the so-called 'Hermitage doublets' sold by the Soviet government at Adolf Hess's Munich auction in the early 1930s.

At the MNK Museum's exhibitions you can see the most comprehensive collection of gold coins of the Russian Empire, platinum coins, one of the world's finest private collections of ancient gold coins, silver thalers of the modern era and the rarest coins of the East, which were struck across a vast territory from Western Asia to the Middle East from the 6th to the 15th centuries.

The Museum maintains close cooperation with the academic and museum community and supports research in the field of numismatics. Within the museum walls not only thematic exhibitions are held in partnership with the largest state museums and private collectors, but also conferences, lectures and business meetings.

The Museum's principal goal is the preservation, development and promotion of the world's numismatic heritage in the Russian Federation. For this reason the Museum supports Russian numismatists and preserves the educational environment and infrastructure for everyone interested in numismatics. The Museum brings together the efforts of state institutions, authorities and private collectors to implement significant cultural projects in the field of numismatics, thereby raising the prestige of Russian numismatic science at the international level.