Petrovka 25. Exhibition strategy. Museum building by Matvey Kazakov

MMSI is considered one of the leading cultural centers capital Cities.
At the heart of exhibition activities Moscow Museum of Modern Art - personal collection of Zurab Tsereteli.
The museum owns four buildings in the center of Moscow.
On Petrovka 25 works by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Pavel Filonov, Vladimir Tatlin and many others are stored.
Building in Ermolaevsky Lane is the main exhibition space of MMSI, where original and significant exhibitions project.
Buildings on Gogolevsky and Tverskoy boulevards are used for holding interesting symposiums, exhibitions and creative meetings.
All information The museum is available in English.

Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMMA)- the first state government in Russia municipal museum, showcasing Russian and foreign art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Founded in 1999 with the support of the Moscow Government and the Department of Culture, MMSI has been considered one of the leading cultural centers in the capital for more than 15 years.

The basis of the concept of exhibition activities Moscow Museum of Modern Art - personal collection of Zurab Tsereteli, famous sculptor and the president Russian Academy arts, allowing us to trace the main stages of the development of modern Russian and foreign art. The museum's policy involves a gradual change in thematic exhibitions and the organization of special projects aimed at the possibility of perception various forms contemporary art visitors with different levels preparation.

The Museum of Modern Art owns four buildings, located around the Boulevard Ring in the center of Moscow.

Main building - on Petrovka, 25. It houses part of the museum's permanent collection and hosts temporary exhibitions. The building is equipped with special equipment for people with disabilities. IN last years is undergoing extensive reconstruction.
Five floors given over to the needs of the museum in a house from the early 20th century at the address: Ermolaevsky Lane, 17(MMSI in Ermolaevsky). This building is now the main exhibition space of MMSI.
Gallery at 9
Ancient building Russian Academy of Arts at Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10 also built according to the design of Matvey Kazakov and serves as a venue for numerous international exhibition projects, symposia and conferences .

Petrovka, 25

At Petrovka, 25, exhibitions are held regularly. This is symbolic, since the former merchant mansion, built at the end of the 18th century, became at the beginning of the 20th century the alma mater for many outstanding cultural figures of that time - it seems to preserve their shadows and voices. The rich museum collection includes works by Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Pavel Filonov, Vladimir Tatlin and many others, whose works were purchased at auctions and in galleries in Europe and the USA and returned to their homeland.

The MMMA on Petrovka offers works by Russian avant-garde artists, as well as works by their foreign colleagues. Thus, the museum’s collection contains masterly graphics by Fernand Léger, Giorgio de Chirico and works by Salvador Dali and Arman. Here the works of the artist Niko Pirosmani and the works of leading nonconformist artists of the 1960s–1980s Ilya Kabakov, Oscar Rabin, Anatoly Zverev and others found their home. The museum strives to show a panorama of modern cultural life and therefore does not stay away from the latest trends, replenishing its collection with creativity from representatives contemporary art– Viktor Pivovarov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Dmitry Prigov, etc.

Exhibitions on Petrovka, 25 are constantly updated, and therefore you can visit here many times, learning new talented works by artists of the 21st century and past times. Thus, at one of the exhibitions the projects of Antonio Gaudi were presented (many unique drawings and models of buildings that have become the adornment of Barcelona), and at the other - an interactive installation by contemporary artist Alexandra Dementieva: examples of the latest technological method of creating images.

Ermolaevsky, Gogolevsky, Tverskoy

The MMSI site on Ermolaevsky Lane hosts no less original and significant exhibitions. As many as five floors were dedicated to the needs of the museum in a building from the early 20th century, so the building in Ermolaevsky is the main exhibition space of the MMSI. In 2017, visitors saw here Valery Aizenberg’s retrospective project “MIGRATIO”, demonstrating contemporary Russian art through the prism of creativity the brightest artist 80s, and also the anniversary exhibition of the outstanding photo artist Sergei Borisov “Zeitgeist” in intriguing black and white colors, the large-scale video installation by Alexandra Mitlyanskaya “Between the past and the future” and much more.

The ancient building of the Russian Academy of Arts on Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10 serves as a venue for numerous international exhibition projects, symposiums and conferences.

Gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard, 9, located in the space of the former creative workshop of Zurab Tsereteli, well remembers its owner, his guests and the atmosphere of creativity that reigned here, so today the most significant and conceptual events of Moscow cultural life take place there.

Museum mission

MMSI considers one of its tasks to be the organization of an extensive exhibition program, thanks to which one can see both retrospectives famous artists 20th century, as well as the works of emerging masters of visual culture, and in addition, attend events within the framework of festivals of various sizes. The museum actively cooperates with young artists, supporting their endeavors at the two-year School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops”, located in the building on Petrovka, 25. Here you can listen to a course of lectures on Russian and foreign art XX and XXI centuries, get acquainted with the art market and new technologies visual arts, try to figure it out current problems modern culture. Among other things, the museum also offers numerous children's programs: for example, the art studio "Fantasy" welcomes children from 5 to 12 years old, conducts children's master classes, excursions and training courses.

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Moscow Museum of Modern Art - the first in Russia state museum, entirely specializing in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its opening, the museum has expanded its scope of activities many times and received recognition from the general public. Today the museum is one of the most active participants artistic life capital Cities.

The museum opened its doors on December 15, 1999 with the support of the Moscow Government and the Moscow Department of Culture. The founder and director of the museum was Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts. His personal collection, consisting of more than 2,000 works by famous artists of the 20th century, laid the foundation for the museum's collection. Later, the museum’s funds were significantly replenished, and currently it is one of the most representative collections Russian art XX century.

Today the museum is located on five sites in historical center Moscow. The main building housing permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions are held, located on Petrovka Street, in former mansion merchant Gubin, built according to the design of the architect Matvey Kazakov. In addition, the museum has four magnificent exhibition spaces at its disposal:

a five-story building in Ermolaevsky Lane;
spacious gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard;
old building Russian Academy of Arts on Gogolevsky Boulevard;
house of merchant Vasily Gorbunov on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street.

Collection

The museum's collection represents the main stages of the development of the avant-garde. Most of the collection consists of works by Russian authors, but the exhibition also includes works foreign artists: graphic works by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Giorgio de Chirico, sculptures by Salvador Dali, Armand and Arnaldo Pomodoro, paintings by Henri Rousseau and Françoise Gilot, installations by Yukinori Yanaga.

An impressive section of the exhibition is dedicated to the work of nonconformist artists of the 1960-1980s: Ilya Kabakov, Anatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Oscar Rabin, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Leonid Shvartsman, Oleg Tselkov and others.

The museum supports the development of contemporary art in Russia and is constantly expanding its collection. Now the contemporary art section presents works by Boris Orlov, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov, Valery Koshlyakov, Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Oleg Kulik, Viktor Pivovarov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Andrey Bartenev and other artists.

Operating mode:

Monday-Sunday - from 12:00 to 20:00;
Thursday - from 13:00 to 21:00;
The third Monday of every month is a day off.

Ticket prices

Single ticket for all venues:

standard ticket - 500 rubles;
discount ticket - 200 rubles.

Tickets to Petrovka, 25:

discount ticket - 150 rubles.

Tickets for Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10:

standard ticket - 350 rubles;
discount ticket - 150 rubles.

Tickets for Ermolaevsky Lane, 17:

discount ticket - 100 rubles.

Tickets for Tverskoy Boulevard, 9:

standard ticket - 150 rubles;
discount ticket - 50 rubles.

Tickets for Bolshaya Gruzinskaya, 15:

standard ticket - 250 rubles;
discount ticket - 100 rubles.

Benefits are established for following groups visitors: secondary and secondary vocational students educational institutions, pensioners of the Russian Federation, working disabled people of II and III groups, full-time students of universities of the Russian Federation, persons under 18 years of age, members large families, conscripts, illegally repressed and rehabilitated citizens of the Russian Federation.

Free entry to all venues: children under 7 years of age, full-time full-time students of art and architectural universities, faculties of universities specializing in the field of art, members of the Academy of Arts, the Association of Art Critics of the Russian Federation and the Unions of Artists, Architects, Designers and Journalists of the Russian Federation, employees of museums of the Russian Federation, members of ICOM, children - disabled people, orphans and children without parental care, unemployed disabled people of grades I and II, participants and veterans of the Great Patriotic War, students educational institutions— shelters, rehabilitation centers, centers social assistance family and children, heroes of the USSR, heroes of the Russian Federation, full holders of the Order of Glory.

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the first state museum in Russia that specializes entirely in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its opening, the museum has expanded its scope of activities many times and received recognition from the general public. Today the museum is one of the most active participants in the artistic life of the capital.

Today the museum is located on four sites in the historical center of Moscow. The main building, which houses the permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions, is located on Petrovka Street, in the former mansion of the merchant Gubin, built according to the design of the architect Matvey Kazakov. In addition, the museum has three magnificent exhibition spaces at its disposal: a five-story building on Ermolaevsky Lane, a spacious gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard and the ancient building of the Russian Academy of Arts on Gogolevsky Boulevard.

History of the building

The main building of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a historical and cultural value. In the history of the city of Moscow, this architectural monument belonging to XVIII century, remained known as the Gubin mansion. Once upon a time it was indeed the main house of the city estate of the wealthy Ural industrialist and merchant Mikhail Pavlovich Gubin. The building was built in 1793 according to the design of the famous Russian architect Matvey Kazakov.

The place where the manor house is located - the current museum - was inhabited by Muscovites back in the 14th century. At that time, Petrovka Street was a deserted road stretching from the VysokoPetrovsky Monastery - the counterpart of the museum building - to the Kremlin itself. Before late XVII centuries, on the site where the mansion now stands, there was a settlement of monastic working people. During the time of Peter I, on Petrovka, opposite the monastery, the estate of the Naryshkin boyars was located, whose house communicated overpass across the street from the monastery.

After changing a whole series of owners land plot went to the owner, whose name remains immortalized thanks to the wonderful estate he built, main house which has come down to us almost unchanged. “I have a house in the White City... which I inherited by deed from the Orenburg merchant Dmitry Kuzmin, son of Krasheninnikov...” - this is how Gubin himself reports to the Moscow office of city buildings on May 25, 1799. Researchers studying the architectural heritage of Matvey Kazakov have repeatedly suggested that the main house of the estate was rebuilt by the architect from an older building. The mansion, together with the side wings (one of them has survived to this day), was a typical Moscow estate ensemble, facing the red line of the street. Behind the buildings there was a park with a small pond. The estate existed in this form until late XIX century. Then it suffered the fate of most old Moscow estates: ownership was divided. Most of it, along with the garden and pond, was sold and developed. In 1880, the main house was turned over to a gymnasium. It is known that the famous symbolist poet Valery Bryusov and the Bakhrushin brothers studied there.

After the revolution for the building began again new life. In 1920, the former gymnasium was designated as the Institute of Physiotherapy and Orthopedics. Throughout the Soviet period, until the moment when the mansion was transferred to museum use, a hospital facility was located here. During this time, the exterior decoration and interior became very dilapidated and a major restoration was required. As a result, now a museum visitor can see the unique paintings on the ceilings of the mansion, made in a classicist spirit. Elements of the interior - the main staircase, the orchestra niche in the ballroom, ceramic stoves - still convey to us the atmosphere of Moscow antiquity.

The idea to adapt the mansion into space for a museum of modern art is not accidental. In a combination of old and new forms, in close proximity absolutely different eras the opportunity for self-determination in the synthetic space of culture opens up for both the artist and the viewer. This element is free play with historical material characteristic of postmodern aesthetics in general. The experience of exhibiting works of contemporary art in the architectural space of a different era is well known in European countries.

Moscow Museum of Modern Art

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the first state museum in Russia that specializes entirely in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its opening, the museum has expanded the scope of its activities many times and received recognition from the general public. Today the museum is one of the most active participants in the artistic life of the capital.

Today the museum is located on four sites in the historical center of Moscow. The main building is located on Petrovka Street, in the former mansion of the merchant Gubin, built according to the design of the architect Matvey Kazakov. In addition, the museum has three magnificent exhibition spaces at its disposal: a five-story building on Ermolaevsky Lane, a spacious exhibition space on Tverskoy Boulevard and the ancient building of the Russian Academy of Arts on Gogolevsky Boulevard.

Collection

The museum's collection represents the main stages of the development of the avant-garde. Most of the collection consists of works by Russian authors, but the exhibition also includes works by foreign artists: graphic works by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Giorgio de Chirico, sculptures by Salvador Dali, Armand and Arnaldo Pomodoro, paintings by Henri Rousseau and Françoise Gilot, installations Yukinori Yanaga.

The core of the museum's collection consists of works by classics of the Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century. Many works purchased at auctions and in galleries in Europe and the USA were returned to their homeland from abroad. Among them are paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Aristarkh Lentulov, Vladimir Tatlin, Pavel Filonov and Wassily Kandinsky, sculptures by Alexander Archipenko and Ossip Zadkine. In addition, the museum is proud of its unique collection of works by the Georgian primitivist artist Niko Pirosmani. An impressive section of the exhibition is dedicated to the work of nonconformist artists of the 1960-1980s: Ilya Kabakov, Anatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Oscar Rabin, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Leonid Shvartsman, Oleg Tselkov and others. The museum supports the development of contemporary art in Russia and is constantly expanding its collection. Now the contemporary art section presents works by Boris Orlov, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov, Valery Koshlyakov, Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Oleg Kulik, Viktor Pivovarov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Andrey Bartenev and other artists.

Exhibition strategy

The museum’s extensive exhibition program is aimed at the widest and most diverse representation of visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Every year the museum organizes many exhibitions of various sizes - from debut shows of emerging authors and conceptual exhibitions to international festivals and huge retrospectives of major artists.

Education

We support young artists and involve them in current artistic process. For this purpose, the Museum operates the School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops”. The two-year training program is implemented in a specific practical activities in creative workshops. The course program includes lectures on contemporary art, studying the art market, studying new technologies of visual arts, mastering the intellectual problems of modern culture. The museum also has an art studio “Fantasy” for children from 5 to 12 years old. Lectures and master classes with leading artists, curators and art researchers are held for everyone.