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Shchusev Museum of Architecture (Moscow, Russia) - exhibitions, opening hours, address, phone numbers, official website.

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Thousand-year history of construction in Rus', in Russian Empire, USSR and Russia through a series of models, archival photographs and documents - here short description exposition of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, which has been educating residents and guests of the city in the traditions and modernity of Russian architecture for more than 80 years. Although renovations are still ongoing in the main museum building, there is much to see in the three wings: impressive models of the State Kremlin Palace and Stalin’s “high-rise buildings”, the pompous “Mossovet” vase in the best traditions of Soviet gigantism and the office of David, the famous director of the museum with a lot of interesting things. The museum also has a legendary branch - the house-workshop of the architect Melnikov.

A little history

The Shchusev Museum of Architecture was founded in 1934 and is located on the territory expropriated by the state from the Church Donskoy Monastery. Later the museum acquired another exhibition area in the late 18th century building of the Talyzin estate, rebuilt for these purposes, by Matvey Kazakov. The founder of the museum and its first director was the famous architect Alexei Shchusev. From the first years of its existence, researchers painstakingly collected information not only about Russian architecture, but also about construction traditions different cultures- the exhibition included models of New Zealand and Chinese dwellings. In the 1950s, the museum developed successfully and was enriched with many valuable exhibits. However, in the 1990s, almost 9,000 sq. meters of exhibition space were returned to the Donskoy Monastery, and today the museum is forced to huddle in the Talyzin mansion, where restoration continues.

The museum's exhibits include a model of the Grand Kremlin Palace, furniture from the Soviet Art Nouveau and Art Deco eras.

What to see

The exhibition of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture is distributed over three exhibition spaces: the main house of the Talyzin estate, the Apothecary Prikaz and the outbuilding with characteristic name“Ruin”, where the Talyzin stables once were. All premises are actually located on the same territory.

After the reconstruction is completed, the Talyzin house will become the main space of the museum. In the meantime, here you can admire the restored painted ceilings, stucco moldings and the embodied genius of the architect Kazakov. Among the exhibits is a model of the Grand Kremlin Palace, furniture from the Soviet Art Nouveau and Art Deco eras. The models of Stalin's high-rise buildings, including the unrealized Palace of Soviets, are very interesting.

Temporary exhibitions are held in the Apothecary Prikaz. In the “Ruin” you can visit the so-called Cabinet of David, director of the museum from 2000 to 2009. There are also wonderful vaulted ceilings.

You will probably notice the noise: in fact, the Filyovskaya metro line runs under the floor of the outbuilding.

Note that the lion's part of the exhibition consists of photographs, architectural plans and drawings of iconic buildings different countries. So, here you can admire unusual angles of the Doge's Palace, the Florence Duomo and other famous buildings.

Address, opening hours and cost of visiting

Address: st. Vozdvizhenka, 5/25. The nearest metro station is Arbatskaya.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 20:00. On Thursday the museum is open from 13:00 to 21:00. The ticket office closes half an hour before the museum closes.

Entrance - 300 RUB, students, pensioners and children under 16 years old - 150 RUB.

Prices on the page are as of October 2018.

Should the architecture of a museum be noticeable or is it just a decoration for the exhibits? Buildings of contemporary art centers built in last decade, give an obvious answer to this question. Inspired by the so-called “Bilbao effect,” museum architecture is becoming increasingly attractive to art lovers and tourists. Thus, the museum, as a cultural institution and as an architectural monument, becomes a key component of urban, regional or even national transformation and an important factor in economic development.

Museums of the 21st century comply as closely as possible with the idea of ​​continuous development and growth, including not only exhibition spaces and an administrative block, but also a library, auditoriums for lectures and film screenings, equipped with last word storage technicians and workshops, special freight elevators, not to mention a restaurant and gift shop.

An example of the successful integration of a building into urban space is the MAXXI - Museum building Arts XXI century (Rome, Italy), which became the new center of the Flamigno quarter. The author of the project is the English architect of Iranian origin Zaha Hadid, who positioned “the museum not as a container object, but as an urban arts campus.”

The idea behind the MAXXI architecture is bold and original: galleries are born from the intersections of flows of lines and nodal points. The continuity of the space, without unnecessary walls or divisions, makes it a suitable place for any exhibitions. The key elements of the building are “readable” already in the atrium: concrete curved walls, suspended black staircases, transparent ceilings through which natural light penetrates. According to Zaha Hadid, these elements create " the new kind fluid spatiality, with many vantage points, designed to personify the chaotic flow of life of modern man.”

MAXXI's architecture challenges our understanding of the traditional exhibition space by being a place where art is experienced in a new way.

One of the most significant decisions modern architecture is the new "Acropolis Museum", created with the aim of housing finds from excavations on the Acropolis hill and at its foot.

The building, designed by the architect Bernard Tschumi in collaboration with Michalis Fotiadis, is a monument of modern architecture, while preserving and exhibiting works of ancient Greek art. Modern materials - glass and concrete - used in construction provide visual contact with the monuments of the Acropolis, offering panoramic views of the historical hills and modern Athens. One of the semantic centers of the building is the “Parthenon Hall”, with its design repeating the cella of the Parthenon and containing the frieze of the temple.

The recently opened new building of the Garage Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow is the first example of new museum architecture in Russia. Architect Rem Koolhaas and the OMA bureau reconstructed the Vremena Goda restaurant, built in the 1960s, preserving elements of Soviet modernism.

At the same time, the building meets all the requirements of a center for contemporary art: rectangular transformable spaces that can be used for different types activities. According to Koolhaas, “the museum is part of the space of Gorky Park and is its continuation: the territory of the park and the floor of the museum are on the same level. It was interesting for us to work with the park as a part of Moscow. It’s very popular, it gets a lot of visitors, and that’s good for the museum.”

Another major project that will undoubtedly change cultural space Russian capital, was announced in October 2015 by the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano. His architectural bureau is working on creating an exhibition space for the V-A-C Foundation, which will appear on the territory of the former GES-2 power plant.

The project is in the approval stage, but some figures have already been announced: the new space should be completed by 2018, its total area will be 31,000 sq. m, exhibition area - 9,000 sq. m, and the number of visitors is 750 thousand people per year.

State Research Museum of Architecture named after A. V. Shchusev- museum and science Center for the study and popularization of architectural heritage. Short name options - GNIMA, MUAR, MA.

The main activities of the museum are Scientific research, collection work, assistance in the restoration of architectural monuments, organization of exhibitions. The structure of the museum includes scientific departments for storing funds, science Library, archive, restoration workshops, photo library, architecture popularization department, development department.

The museum's collections reflect thousand-year history architecture of Russia and include more than one million storage units.

The museum has the status of a particularly valuable object cultural heritage peoples Russian Federation(decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 24, 1995).

IN different time the directors of the museum were: famous figures like A.V. Shchusev, V.I. Baldin, V.I. Rezvin, D.A. Sarkisyan, I.M. Korobina. In March 2017, according to the results of a competition of concepts for the development of the State Museum of Architecture. A.V. Shchusev, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation appointed Elizaveta Likhacheva, a senior researcher at the museum, to the position of director.

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History of the museum

• 1934

The idea of ​​creating an architecture museum was born in Russia back in late XIX V. influenced by increased interest in national heritage. Material accumulated by various institutions and museums in the 19th century. in the process of research and restoration of architectural monuments, needed generalization. There was a need for a scientific and educational center for more high level and a new type - in the Museum of Architecture. The museum was established on January 1, 1934, simultaneously with the establishment of the USSR Academy of Architecture, of which it was a division. The largest Russian specialists in the history and theory of architecture worked there. In 1935, the territory and buildings of the Donskoy Monastery were transferred to him. The main exhibition is located in Great Cathedral. Inside the monastery walls under open air They installed artistic fragments of destroyed monuments, saved by museum staff, and which became part of the collection. The object of museum collection and display was declared world architecture from ancient times to the 19th century. inclusive. The museum's holdings combined materials on Russian architecture, which amounted to most collections, with materials on European, Byzantine, and Middle Eastern architecture. There were even such exotic exhibits as model models of New Zealand huts and Indo-Chinese pile dwellings. The key subject of the display were the monastery buildings themselves and the preserved necropolis of the 18th-19th centuries.

• 1946.

Lecture hall

The lecture hall of the Museum of Architecture was created simultaneously with the Museum of the USSR Academy of Architecture in 1934. In the first years of its existence, the lecture hall was traveling: leading experts in the field of architecture conducted educational activities, speaking at factories. During the Great Patriotic War, the lecture hall did not stop operating. January 1, 1964 The State Research Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchusev was created, uniting the Museum of the USSR Academy of Architecture, located on the territory of the Donskoy Monastery, and the Republican Museum of Russian Architecture, located in the Talyzin estate on the street. Vozdvizhenka. At this time, the lecture hall acquired its permanent hall within the walls of the main building of the estate. The main focus of the lecture hall is to highlight the historical process of development of Russian architecture. At this time, lectures are given by such eminent architects as Mikhail Vasilievich Posokhin, Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov and others.

In the mid-1990s, in connection with the transfer of the Donskoy Monastery to the Russian Orthodox Church, the museum's funds were urgently transported to the main building of the Talyzin estate. The lecture hall was also used for housing funds. Due to the lack of premises, lectures are held once a week, among the exhibition in the Enfilade of the main building.

Architectural excursions

The museum conducts regular excursions both through the exhibitions and museum complex, and along the streets of Moscow. Among the excursions that enjoy constant success: “Architectural avant-garde in the Arbat alleys”; " Architectural styles Moscow"; “Tverskaya Street and Stalin’s general plan”; “New architecture of Moscow. Ostozhenka"; "Moscow architect Fyodor Shekhtel"; “The first stage of the metro. From Sokolniki to the Park..." and others. The topics of the excursion program are constantly expanding. You can view the program and schedule of excursions on the museum’s website.

Criticism

Architectural researcher D. S. Khmelnitsky

State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchuseva was created in 1934 and became the first specialized museum of architecture in Europe. Its main task is to collect and present to the general public examples of architecture from all over the world from ancient times to the present. It contains drawings, photographs and models not only of architectural structures located in Russia, but also of ancient Byzantine temples, Middle Eastern religious buildings, examples of European architecture and even Polynesian huts.

The museum became especially popular in the post-war years. A significant part of the buildings, which are historical and architectural monuments, were destroyed during hostilities, and it often turned out that documents that would help restore the building to its original appearance could only be found in an architectural museum. It was thanks to this institution that many unique buildings and temples, which are part of the Russian cultural heritage, were recreated practically from ruins.

The vastness and wealth of funds Museum of Architecture impressive, their catalogs contain more than a million items. It contains unique documents related to architectural monuments - drawings, measurements of buildings, negatives, photographs... In addition, the museum halls display numerous collections of works of art: engravings, sculptures, architectural models, tapestries, pieces of furniture, fragments of buildings, antique tombstones and even building materials.

The museum buildings themselves, located in the center of Moscow, are also historical and architectural monuments. The museum is located in old manor Talyzin, on the territory of which there is a chamber of the Pharmacy Prikaz, preserved from the 17th century. Enfilade of the former manor house and an outbuilding in the manor courtyard are used as an exhibition space and lecture hall.

The museum holds numerous visiting exhibitions. The excursion program includes not only a tour of the museum’s exhibition, but also a walk along the capital’s streets. During city tours, the features of the architectural direction that dominated the development of the urban area can be studied using the example of real buildings. In addition to the lecture hall, the museum has a library and photo library, which stores subject matter literature and a rich collection of materials on urban planning topics. You can visit them by appointment.

Cost of visiting the museum: 250 rubles (adults), 100 rubles (discounted). Children under 18 years of age can visit the museum for free.

The schedule and cost of excursions and lectures must be clarified separately.

State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchusev, founded in 1934, is located in the building of the former estate of the Talyzin family. The estate itself is protected by the state as a monument to the era of Russian classicism. The museum is named after its founder, the famous Soviet architect Alexei Viktorovich Shchusev.

In addition to exhibition activities, the State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchusev is known for his scientific work and research in the field of architecture, as well as restoration activities. The museum building itself is divided into several departments that perform their functions. Among them are restoration workshops and a photo library, a whole library scientific literature, several storage funds, archives and a department for popularizing architecture.

The main exhibition of the museum includes more than a million specimens architectural art Russia. Since 1995, the President of the Russian Federation has given the museum the status of a particularly valuable object of cultural heritage of our country.

The museum is constantly active exhibition activities, hosting and organizing traveling exhibitions on its territory. In addition, there is a lecture hall on the territory of the museum, which did not cease its activities even during the Great Patriotic War. Patriotic War. The modern lecture hall is equipped with advanced technology and is open to the public.

Operating mode:

• Wednesday, Friday-Sunday - from 11:00 to 20:00;
• Tuesday, Thursday - from 13:00 to 21:00;
• Monday is a day off.

You can find out more details on the official website.