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Top 10 Fascinating Facts about Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Moscow museum of modern art is an energetic institution that plays an important part in the Moscow art scene and this is one of the most impressive collections of modern and contemporary Russian art. Since its inauguration, the museum has expanded its strategies and achieved a high level of public acknowledgement.

Today the museum is a magnificent institution that plays an important part in Moscow by offering various temporary expositions for all types of visitors. It houses the most influential and widespread collection of art and artefacts from all around the world.

Featuring items from the glamorous part of Russia, the museum is visited daily by hundreds of people, both local and foreign, looking to learn more about Russia鈥檚 past and styles of art. Here are the top 10 facts about the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

1. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art was opened in 1995

The museum was opened on 15 December 1999 and is most famous for being the first state museum in Russia to focus its activities and work on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Museum today contains one of the largest collections of art modern and contemporary Russian.

It has some of the most impressive arts and many temporary and permanent shows are worth a visit.

2. The Museum鈥檚 founding director is Zurab Tsereteli  

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The museum’s founding director was the famous Russian artist and sculptor, Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts. With the generous support of the Moscow city government and the Moscow city department of culture, Zurab unveiled the Museum.

His private collection of more than 2000 works by important 20th-century masters was the core of the museum鈥檚 permanent display. Later on, the museum鈥檚 keepings were enriched considerably. The collection was structured in a way that made it possible to trace all the stages in the evolution of Russian and foreign modern art.

3. It is Russia鈥檚 first state-sponsored museum

The Museum is Russia鈥檚 first state-sponsored museum focusing on Russian and foreign art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Founded in 1999 with support from the Moscow City Government and the Moscow city department of culture, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art has been among the leading cultural venues of the Russian capital for over 15 years.

4. The museum has five venues in the Moscow historic centre

Petrovka. On the right, house 19 – Former. profitable house M.I. Korovin, 1899, architect I.G. Kondratenko photo by Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia –

The museum has five locations spread along the Boulevard ring in Downtown Moscow. The Main Building is situated in Petrovka street, near Petrovsky Boulevard in Central Moscow.

This is the 18th 鈥� century mansion house of merchant Gubin, designed by the renowned neoclassical architect Matvey Kazakov.

Apart from that, the museum has three splendid exhibition venues, a vast five-storey building in Ermolaevsky lane, a spacious gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard, and the beautiful building of the state museum of modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts and Zurab Tsereteli Studio Museum.

5. It鈥檚 collection comprises more than 1500 unique works

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The museum鈥檚 collections are made up of more than 1500 unique works of art representing all the various trends and divergent styles of the 20th century. Non-conformist, abstractionist and post-modernist works are here in abundance.

On display are paintings, sketches and other works by a range of world-renowned artists such as Chagall, Kandinsky, Picasso, Shemiakin, Konchalovsky, Steinberg, Petrov-vodkin, Pirosmany, Birsten and Oscar Rabin. The modern Art Museum also often organizes temporary thematic exhibitions.

6. It is a centre of artistic education

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Today the museum is renowned not only for its collections and exhibits but also known as a centre of artistic education. The school of modern Art (by the name of 鈥淔ree Studios鈥�) works alongside the Museum, featuring a two-year program.

The two-year program is realized in concrete practice in creature studio work, included in the program are lecturers on modern art, the study of contemporary visual arts technologies, mastery of a broad spectrum of intellectual problems surrounding contemporary culture and familiarization with today鈥檚 art market.

7. The Museum gets more than 60 project presentations annually

Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Moscow, Russia photo by Pulux11 –

More than 60 projects are presented annually at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, including debuts by budding artists and international festivals. One of the main focuses of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is to provide education in contemporary art and support for young artists.

All lectures are held simultaneously online and offline.

8. The Museum鈥檚 research work revolves around the Museum鈥檚 collection

The research work of the museum revolves around the Museum鈥檚 collection. There is a research library at the Museum with an extensive collection of local and international art publications. The museum鈥檚 laboratory is a nationally recognized centre of conservation-related research.

9. It鈥檚 majority of exhibits are by Russian artists

People inside an exhibition hall, watching works by Joan Miro, In Frieder Burda Museum, Baden-Baden, Germany photo by Vintagenie –

The museum’s permanent collection represents the main stages in the formation and development of the Avant grade. The majority of the exhibits are by Russian artists but the display also includes some works by renowned western masters, for example, graphic pieces by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Giorgio De Chirico.

10. It has a permanent display section devoted to non-conformist art

The museum has an extensive permanent display section that displays non-conformist art. A section of the permanent display is devoted to non-conformist art of the 1960s 鈥� 1980s. The creative activity of these masters, now well known in Russia and abroad, was then in opposition to the official Soviet ideology.