Have you ever visited the Museum of FineArts them. Pushkin in Moscow? If you have never been there before, then it’s a pity. This is one of the most interesting places of the capital! Today, the expositions of the Pushkin Museum are on a par with collections of such world-class titans as the Louvre or the Hermitage.
A bit of history
It all began in 1898, August 17th.Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin was laid exactly on that distant summer day. It was intended primarily for the dissemination and popularization of knowledge in the field of art among the broad strata of the Russian public, as well as for students studying sculpture. It must be said that the most educated people of that time worked on the museum project. The money for the construction (most of them) was donated by the famous Russian philanthropist Yu.S. Nechaev-Maltsev. The project of the building itself was developed by a talented architect R.I. Klein. Before embarking on a responsible assignment, Klein studied museums in Egypt and Greece for a long time, as well as European experience.
When the Museum of Fine Arts was builtPushkin, Klein helped engineers Vladimir Shukhov and Ivan Rerberg. The first was the author of the original translucent ceilings of the main museum building, and the second was the deputy head of the project. For the construction of the complex Klein was awarded the title of academician of architecture.
Amazing architectural style
Take a close look at the Museum of Finethe arts of Pushkin, the photo of which is presented below, and you may notice that it is very similar to the ancient temple (Greek) from the times of antiquity, towering among thick trees. Like ancient religious buildings, the building stands on a high stone podium and is surrounded by majestic Ionic columns.
Колоннада эта воспроизводит точные пропорции the columns of the portico of the temple of the Erechtheum on the Greek Acropolis. However, the architectural style of the Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin is close to classicism. But it is only outside. Going inside, visitors enter the spacious rooms, flooded with light, access to which provides a glass dome. Such an unusual ceiling already indicates neo-classicism. By the way, when the museum was being built, electric lighting was not provided at all in the project. It was believed that the sculptural compositions are best seen in natural light.
Collections
An interesting fact is that the Museum of FinePushkin’s arts until the October Revolution, which struck Russia in 1917, was exclusively a museum of sculpture. Here were exhibited skillfully executed copies of ancient mosaics and statues. At that time, the originals were represented only by exhibits from the Egyptologist Golenishchev collections.
But after the October Revolution, the museumthe expositions were replenished with paintings confiscated from private collections of the Russian aristocracy and nationalized by the Bolsheviks. So, for example, the famous paintings "Girl on the Ball" (Picasso Pablo) and "Red Vineyards in Arles" (Dutchman Van Gogh) came to the Pushkin Museum from the collections of the merchant Morozov.
Today, the Museum of Fine Arts namedPushkin proudly presents to his visitors the richest collection of French impressionism and post-impressionism. Here we can enjoy the paintings of Camille Pizarro, Arnie Matisse, Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Sisley, Edgar Degas, Toulouse Lautrec, and also the unique Van Gogh and other great painters.
Also in the Pushkin Museum you can look atItalian painting of the 18th and 20th centuries, Japanese and British engravings, copies of the masterpieces of ancient art, including the huge sculpture by David Michelangelo, and much more. Whole Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin stores 700 thousand exhibits, and for the year he is visited by almost half a million people.
Events and events held in the museum
On Thursdays in the evening and on Fridays in the afternoonIn the museum for everyone there are interesting classes called "Conversations about art". Lectures are devoted to all major sections of the exhibition, as well as various seasonal exhibitions, regularly held in this cultural center.
Since 2012, the Pushkin Museum annually takesparticipation in the All-Russian cultural action "Night of Museums". The exquisite musical "Svyatoslav Richter's Evenings", an international music festival held under the vaults of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts every year in December, also became a tradition.
Tourists to note
If you are planning to visit the Museum of FineArts named after Pushkin for the first time in his life, do not confuse it with another Moscow museum, which bears the name of the great Russian poet, which is located on Prechistenka. The main building of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is located on Volkhonka in the house at number 12.
Tourists need to know that in the Pushkin Museumit is not allowed to smoke, use cellular communication (this is a moveton), touch museum exhibits, take pictures with a flash, bring flowers into the halls, eat outside the cafe area. Bags and large umbrellas should be left in the storage room.
