New Jerusalem

About museum

One of the oldest and largest state museums in the Moscow Region, the New Jerusalem Museum has undergone many transformations and upheavals over the past decades. In 1941 it was almost completely destroyed by Nazi invaders but was later restored. Today the museum holds more than 180,000 items, including ecclesiastical utensils, Russian and foreign paintings, porcelain, weapons, furniture from noble estates of the Moscow Region, manuscript and rare printed editions, works of decorative and applied arts, and 20th-century paintings and graphics. On the museum grounds there are 19th-century monuments — a peasant hut, a chapel, and a mill. The museum was to move in the near future to a new modern building next to the Resurrection Monastery, which was scheduled to open in 2013.