Zvenigorod State Museum-Reserve

About museum

Zvenigorod Museum-Reserve is one of the oldest museums in the Moscow Region. For more than 100 years the work of the museum's staff has been aimed at preserving and restoring the monastery's monuments, studying and popularizing the cultural heritage of the Zvenigorod land.

The museum's holdings number over 60,000 items, including collections of archaeology, painting and graphics, furniture and weaving, icons, documents, metalwork and rare books.
The museum has several permanent exhibitions; temporary exhibitions and other cultural and educational events are held.

The main exhibition spaces are located in the Tsaritsyn Chambers on the territory of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which are a monument of secular architecture of the mid-17th century, and in the Zvenigorod Manezh.

The Manezh is a modern museum at the entrance to the historic center of Zvenigorod. In the 19th century the building was used as food warehouses for local merchants. Today the Manezh has the status of a cultural heritage site, and after the restoration carried out in 2023 it is a cozy and modern cultural and exhibition space.