Pushkin Museum

Q: What are the Pushkin Museum's most important paintings?

Degas's Dancers Backstage and Cézanne's interior scenes are Impressionist highlights. Poussin's Victory of Joshua represents the strong Old Masters collection.

Q: What art movements are represented?

Rococo, Dutch Golden Age, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism are all strong. Watteau's satirical paintings anchor the French 18th-century galleries.

Q: Where is the Pushkin Museum?

On Volkhonka Street in central Moscow, near the Kremlin and Christ the Savior Cathedral. The neoclassical building opened in 1912. Adriaen van Ostade's genre scenes are in the Dutch galleries on the first floor.

Q: What's the museum's full name?

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. It's named after the poet, not because he's connected to visual art. The collection covers ancient Egyptian casts through modern European painting. De Hooch's domestic interiors are among the quieter Dutch highlights.

Moscow, Russia

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Museum Address

Ulitsa Volkhonka 12, Moscow, Russia

Moscow, Russia

Ticket Prices

500 RUB (students free)

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Featured Artists

9 artists in database

1Edgar Degas1 work 2Paul Cézanne1 work 3Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin1 work 4Pieter de Hooch1 work 5François Boucher1 work

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts opened in 1912 as a teaching museum for Moscow University, housed in a neoclassical building designed by Roman Klein. The original collection consisted mainly of plaster casts of ancient sculptures, but nationalization after 1917 transformed it into one of Russia's premier art museums. Works from aristocratic estates and the Hermitage flowed into the collection, along with the legendary holdings of merchants Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov.

The Shchukin and Morozov donations give the Pushkin exceptional strength in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. Works by Monet, Degas, Cézanne, and Van Gogh fill the galleries, alongside Picasso and Matisse. The European Old Masters collection includes paintings by Rembrandt, Poussin, and Boucher. Egyptian antiquities and Greek gold complete the encyclopedic scope.

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Degas's Dancers Backstage and Cézanne's interior scenes are Impressionist highlights. Poussin's Victory of Joshua represents the strong Old Masters collection.

Two Moscow collectors, Shchukin and Morozov, bought directly from Parisian galleries before the Revolution. The Soviet government nationalized their collections. Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso came through these seizures.

Rococo, Dutch Golden Age, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism are all strong. Watteau's satirical paintings anchor the French 18th-century galleries.

On Volkhonka Street in central Moscow, near the Kremlin and Christ the Savior Cathedral. The neoclassical building opened in 1912. Adriaen van Ostade's genre scenes are in the Dutch galleries on the first floor.

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. It's named after the poet, not because he's connected to visual art. The collection covers ancient Egyptian casts through modern European painting. De Hooch's domestic interiors are among the quieter Dutch highlights.

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Please note: Artwork locations and display status may change. Some paintings may be on loan, in restoration, or moved to different galleries within the museum. We recommend contacting Pushkin Museum directly to confirm specific artwork availability before your visit.

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