The cultural heritage of Russia is renowned for its wealth throughout the world. Tourists from dozens of different countries come to take a look at our museums and architectural monuments. And many of them are users of the famous travel portal TripAdvisor. Based on the reviews on this site, a list was compiled 10 best museums in Russia.
Thousands of tourists, Russian and foreign, voted for each of the world famous museums included in the top ten.
10. Armory, Moscow
This museum is part of the Grand Kremlin Palace complex. Here you can see ancient state regalia, a collection of gold and silver items of Russian craftsmen, ceremonial tsarist and church clothes, weapons of the Russian and European armies of the XIV-XIX centuries.
9. Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, Moscow
This is the main building of the legendary Tretyakov Gallery. The Tretyakov family acquired this building in 1851. Today hundreds of Muscovites and guests of the capital come here, not only to look at the famous canvases, but also to pray in the Church of St. Nicholas in front of the icon of Our Lady of Vladimir.
8. Diamond Fund, Moscow
The collection of the Diamond Fund began to form in the 18th century on the initiative of Peter I. Until 1914, jewelry of many generations of Russian autocrats was kept in the Diamond Office of the St. Petersburg Winter Palace. But during the First World War, the treasury was evacuated to the Kremlin, and in 1967 the first exhibition of the Diamond Fund opened in Moscow.
7. Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow
For a long time this building became the focus of the exhibition life of the capital, while the reconstruction of the complex in Lavrushinsky Lane was underway. Today, an exposition of 20th century art objects has been opened on Krymsky Val. Master classes, lectures, conferences and creative evenings are not uncommon here.
6. The Pushkin Museum. A.C. Pushkin, Moscow
The museum's collection is one of the world's largest collections of works of Russian and foreign fine art. The museum was founded in 1898, and today its funds include more than 670,000 items. More than 1 million people visit the Pushkin Museum annually.
5. Museum-reserve "Kolomenskoye", Moscow
The first written mention of Kolomna dates back to 1336. Today this historical-architectural and natural-landscape museum is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year. On the territory of "Kolomenskoye" in the temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, one of the most revered among Orthodox icons is kept - the Mother of God "Sovereign".
4. Museum-apartment of A.S. Pushkin, St. Petersburg
The Memorial Museum is located on the embankment of the Moika River in house number 12. The museum exposition tells about the last months of the poet's life. It was in this house that Alexander Sergeevich, mortally wounded in a duel, died in 1837. Most of the things in the museum's collection belonged to the poet himself, his family and friends.
3. Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta, St. Petersburg
This private museum of contemporary art is located in the northern capital on Vasilievsky Island. The museum is very young - it received its first visitors in 2010. The collection contains not only paintings, but also sculpture, graphics, installations and even video art sketches.
2. Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Founded in 1895, the Russian Museum became the country's first state museum of fine arts. The collection of the museum has more than 400 thousand exhibits dated from the 10th to the 21st century. The Russian Museum presents all types, genres and trends of Russian art
1. State Museum "Hermitage", St. Petersburg
The collection of one of the largest museums in the world contains about 3 million exhibits. Here you can enjoy painting, graphics, sculpture, applied arts, study household items of various nations, numismatic exhibits and archaeological finds. If you spend at least a few minutes near each exposition, then it will take about 5 years to walk around the entire museum.