Temporary Exhibitions |
11.12 Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Snow: conceptual works by Rinat Voligamsi, to Oct. 13. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 495-940-6471, www.11-12.ru
20th-Century Literature Museum:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Wolves and Sheep (Volki i Ovtsy): works by Moscow artists, to Oct. 20. Located at 17 Trubnikovsky Pereulok. M. Barrikadnaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 7:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last day of the month. 495-695-4618, www.goslitmuz.ru/ru/ostroukhov-museum
Academy of Arts:
Contemporary Artists of Bahrain. New Horizons, to Oct. 13. Located at 21 Prechistenka. M. Kropotkinskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., Sun. noon to 7 p.m., closed Mon. 495-637-4771, www.rah.ru
Alexander Fersman Mineralogical Museum:
MT PICK Permanent display: A collection of minerals from all over the world. Located at 18 Leninsky Prospekt, Bldg. 2. M. Oktyabrskaya, Leninsky Prospekt, then any bus to Bolnitsa Svyatitelya Alexia. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-954-3900, www.fmm.ru
Alexander Goldenweiser Apartment Museum:
Memorial Apartment of this distinguished Russian pianist and composer, permanent display. Located at 17 Tverskaya Ul., apt. 110. M. Tverskaya. Open Wed. noon to 4 p.m. Excursions by appointment. 495-629-2929, www.glinka.museum/about/apartment_museum_goldenweiser/
Alexander Herzen House Museum:
Small Mansion where the Russian civic philosopher Alexander Herzen (1812-70), best known for his autobiographical book "My Past and Thoughts" and social novel "Who Is to Blame?" lived before leaving Russia. Located at 27 Sivtsev Vrazhek. M. Kropotkinskaya, Smolenskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. 2 to 7:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last day of the month. 499-241-5859, www.goslitmuz.ru/ru/herzen-museum
Alexander Ostrovsky House Museum:
Permanent display, about the life and work of this 19th-century Russian playwright who almost single-handedly created a Russian national repertoire. Located at 9 Malaya Ordynka, Bldg. 1. M. Polyanka, Tretyakovskaya. Ticket office open noon to 6:30 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon., Tues. and the last Fri. of the month. 495-953-8684, www.bakhrushin.theatre.ru/branches/dmo
Alexander Pushkin Apartment Museum and Exhibition Hall:
Pushkin and Moscow: permanent display. Located at 55/32 Arbat, entrance from Denezhny Pereulok. M. Smolenskaya. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. noon to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon., Tues. and the last Friday of the month. 499-241-9295, www.pushkinmuseum.ru
Alexander Pushkin Museum:
Albums Are Rare Today (Albomy Nynche Stali Redki): This exhibit traces the evolution of the handwritten album genre in Russia from the late 18th century to the present day, to Nov. 17.
Open Storage of rare books, paintings, graphics, porcelain, bronzes, ceramics, genealogical materials and private collections.
Pushkin and His Age (Pushkin i Yego Epokha): permanent display.
Pushkin's Tales (Skazki Pushkina): permanent display. Located at 12/2 Ul. Prechistenka. M. Kropotkinskaya. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. noon to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Fri. of the month. 495-637-5674, www.pushkinmuseum.ru
Anatoly Lunacharsky Memorial Study:
Permanent display: an exhibit devoted to Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875-1933) — Russian writer, translator, essayist, art critic, politician and the first Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment responsible for culture and education. Located at 9/5 Denezhny Pereulok, Apt. 1. M. Smolenskaya. By appointment 499-241-8873, www.goslitmuz.ru/ru/lunacharsky-museum
Andrei Bely Apartment Museum:
Permanent display: personal belongings, portraits and rare archive materials of this acclaimed Silver Age poet and novelist. Located at 55 Arbat. M. Smolenskaya. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. noon to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon., Tues. and the last Friday of the month. 499-241-9295, www.pushkinmuseum.ru, kvartira-belogo.guru.ru
Andrei Rublev Museum of Early Russian Culture and Art:
Permanent display: icons, wall paintings, decorative art, manuscripts and black-letter books in the restored buildings of the former Spaso-Andronikov Monastery. Located at 10 Andronyevskaya Ploshchad. M. Rimskaya, Ploshchad Ilicha. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., closed Wed. and the last Friday of the month. 495-678-1467, www.rublev-museum.ru
Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center:
Permanent display devoted to the legacy of this human rights activist and physicist chronicles the political repression of Soviet citizens from 1917 to the 1980s with photographs and documentary materials. Located at 57 Zemlyanoi Val, Bldg. 6. M. Kurskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mon. 495-623-4401/4420, www.sakharov-center.ru
Andriyaka's Watercolor School:
Masterpieces of Museum Collections: rare 19th-century Russian watercolors and drawings from the Vologda Picture Gallery, to Oct. 27. Located at 17/1 Gorokhovsky Pereulok. M. Kurskaya. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 499-267-5435, www.andriaka.ru
Anna Golubkina Studio Museum:
Collection of Sculptures by this prominent master of the Silver Age art culture, permanent display. Located at 12 Bolshoi Lyovshinsky Pereulok. M. Park Kultury, Smolenskaya. Wed., Thurs. and Fri. noon to 6 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Friday of the month. 495-637-2564/5682, www.tretyakovgallery.ru/ru/museum/branch/museum_studio_golubkina
Anton Chekhov House Museum:
NEW Four Lives of Ma-Pa (Chetyre Zhizni Ma-Pa): This exhibit tells about Anton Chekhov's sister Maria Chekhova (1863-1954), opens Oct. 11, runs to Nov. 25.
Permanent display: the writer's Moscow apartment, with a small display of photos and manuscripts. Located at 6 Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Ul. M. Barrikadnaya. Tues., Thurs., Sat. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wed., Fri. 2 to 8 p.m., closed Mon. and the last day of the month. 495-691-6154/3837, www.goslitmuz.ru/ru/chekhov-museum
Anton Chekhov Memorial Museum at Melikhovo:
Permanent display: the house furnished more or less as it was when the writer lived there from 1892 to 1899 and wrote the famous play "The Seagull." Located in Melikhovo, from Kursky Station to Chekhov, then bus 25. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Friday of the month. 499-270-7991, www.chekhov-melikhovo.com
Arkhangelskoye Estate Museum:
18th-Century Palace and Park Ensemble (Dvortsovo-Parkovy Ansambl 18 Veka) features works from the collection of Count Yusupov, permanent display.
Russian Monarchs. The Romanov Dynasty (Russkiye Monarkhi. Dinastiya Romanovykh): costumed porcelain sculptures, to Jan. 12. Located at Posyolok Arkhangelskoye, 5th kilometer of Ilyinskoye Shosse. M. Tushinskaya, then bus 549 to Arkhangelskoye or bus 151 to Sanatory. Park open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Exhibitions open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sat., Sun. and holidays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mon., Tues. and the last Wed. of the month. 495-797-5409, www.arhangelskoe.su
Art Deco Gallery:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Conscience Vanished (Propala Sovest): illustrations to works by major 19th-century Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, to Dec. 26. Located at 2/4 Luzhnetskaya Naberezhnaya. M. Vorobyovy Gory. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sat. and Sun. by appontment. 495-639-9484, artdecogallery.ru
Art Ru Agency:
FESTIVAL Biennale: NEW Works by Young Woman Artists, Fri. to Oct. 13. Located at 26 Ozerkovskaya Naberezhnaya. M. Novokuznetskaya. Tues. to Fri. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 495- 943-9872, 499-261-7883, www.agencyart.ru
Art4.ru:
Contemporary Russian Art collected by Igor Markin and housed in a private museum. Located at 4 Khlynovsky Tupik. M. Tverskaya. By appontment 499-136-5656, art4.ru
ArtPlay Design Center:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Defining the Route (Opredelyaya Marshrut): Nick Baron, Oleg Aronson, Jeremy Hight, Jonathan Hale, Yelena Petrovskaya and others research the perception of contemporary art, to Wed. Located at 10 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Ul., Bldg. 7. M Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. 8-926-619-2889, 495-620-0882, www.artplay.ru
Bakhrushin Theater Museum:
Dutch Dreams of Shakespeare (Gollandskiye Mechty o Shekspire): works by costume designer Rien Bekkers, to Nov. 17.
Golden Age of Russian Theater (Zolotoi Vek Russkogo Teatra): posters, photos, costumes and other memorabilia of famous Russian actors and directors of the last two centuries, permanent display. Located at 31/12 Ul. Bakhrushina. M. Paveletskaya. Ticket office open noon to 6:30 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon., Tues. and the last Fri. of the month 495-953-4470/4848, www.gctm.ru/museum
Boris Pasternak Museum:
Permanent Display: The famous dacha home where the author of "Dr. Zhivago" weathered attacks after being awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. Located in Peredelkino, 3 Ul. Pavlenko. From Kievsky Station to Peredelkino. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 7:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last day of the month. 495-934-5175, www.pasternakmuseum.ru/index_angl.html
Brothers Lumiere Center of Photography:
About A New Attitude to Photography (O Novom Otnoshenii k Fotografii): works by Minsk conceptual photographer Igor Savchenko, to Nov. 10.
FESTIVAL Biennale: The Secret of Vivian Maier (1926-2009): works by this American amateur street photographer, to Oct. 27. Located at 3 Bolotnaya Naberezhnaya, Bldg. 1. M. Kropotkinskaya. Noon to 9 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 495-228-9878, www.lumiere.ru
Bulgakov House:
Odd Flat: The communal apartment, in which Mikhail Bulgakov lived in 1921 to 1924, and which became the prototype of the "Odd Flat" where Woland took up residence with his court. Permanent displays, performances, exhibits and excursions devoted to the life and work of Mikhail Bulgakov and his novel "The Master and Margarita." Located at 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya Ul. through the arch, Apt. 50. M. Mayakovskaya. 1 to 11 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. Free admission. 495-970-01619, www.dombulgakova.ru
CCC Garage:
FESTIVAL Biennale: 1+1=1: works by American conceptual artist John Baldessari, to Nov. 24. Located at 9 Krymsky Val, in Gorky Park, near Pionersky Prud. M. Oktyabrskaya. Noon to 8:30 p.m. 645-0520, garageccc.com
Cervantes Institute:
Nunez de Balboa: paintings, sculptures and installations by Spanish, Russian and Latin American artists dedicated to Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519), to Nov. 13. Located at 20A Novinsky Bulvar, Bldg. 1-2. M. Krasnopresnenskaya. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 495-609-9022/9422, www.moscu.cervantes.es/ru/default.shtm
Christ the Savior Cathedral Museum:
History of the Christ the Savior Cathedral: permanent display. Located at 15 Ul. Volkhonka. M. Kropotkinskaya. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed the last Monday of the month. 495-637-1276, 495-924-8058/8490, www.xxc.ru/complex/museum/index.htm, www.xxc.ru/english/index.htm
Classical Photography Gallery:
Works by Pyotr Nosov and Anatoly Kulakov, to Oct. 27. Located at 23 Savvinskaya Naberezhnaya, Bldg. 1. Wed. to Sun. noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-510-7713/14, classic-gallery.ru
Darwin Museum:
Pass the Path of Evolution: a new interactive multimedia exhibition, permanent display.
Permanent displays: Macroevolution, Microevolution, Zoogeography, The Diversity of Life on Earth, Live Exhibition and others. Located at 57 Ul. Vavilova. M. Akademicheskaya. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 9 p.m. closed Mon. and the last Fri. of the month. 499-134-6124, 783-2253, www.darwin.museum.ru/eng
Dom Ikony Na Spiridonovke:
Icons and other works of Christian art from a private collection, permanent display.
Russian Moderne (Russky Modern): works by Russian artists from the turn of the 20th century, through November.
The Romanovs. The Fall of the Dynasty (Romanovy. Padeniye Dinastii): personal items, works of art and archival documents, to Dec. 19. Located at 4 Ul. Spiridonovka. M. Arbatskaya, Tverskaya. Noon to 10 p.m. 495-690-5474, www.dom-ikony.ru
Dom Nashchokina Gallery:
Adam and Eve in contemporary Russian paintings, graphics and sculptures, to Nov. 30. Located at 12 Vorotnikovsky Pereulok. M. Mayakovskaya. Ticket office open noon to 7 p.m. 495-699-1178/4774, www.domnaschokina.ru
Domik Chekhova:
Mayakovsky: exhibit of the poet's manuscripts from the Vladimir Mayakovsky Museum, to Tues. Located at 29 Malaya Dmitrovka, Bldg. 4. M. Mayakovskaya. Wed. and Fri. to Sun. noon to 8 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 9 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-645-9277, www.moscowmanege.ru
English Courtyard Museum:
Russian-English Trade Relations (Russko-Angliiskiye Torgoviye Otnosheniya): This building, the cultural and commercial center of the English community in Moscow in the 16th and 17th centuries, reflects the development of Russian-English relations through the centuries, permanent display. Located at 4A Ul Varvarka. M. Kitai-Gorod. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Friday of the month. 495-698-3952, www.mosmuseum.ru/museum-menu-english-dvor.html
Folk Graphic Museum:
Russian Lubok: permanent display. Located at 10 Maly Golovin Pereulok. M. Sukharevskaya, Turgenevskaya, Sretensky Bulvar. Tues., Wed. Fri. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thurs. 2 to 9 p.m., Sat., Sun. noon to 5 p.m., closed Mon. 495-5608-5182, www.russianlubok.ru
FotoLoft Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
NEW Advent in the Highlands photo works by Sigurjon Petursson inspired by Icelandic author Gunnar Gunnarsson's novella "Advent — The Good Sheperd," to Oct. 20. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 9 p.m. 495-987-3874/75, www.fotoloft.ru
Fyodor Chaliapin House Museum:
Permanent display: a small exhibit devoted to the great Russian bass. Located at 25 Novinsky Bulvar. M. Barrikadnaya. Ticket office open Tues. and Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wed. and Thurs. 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., closed Mon., Fri. and the last day of the month. 495-605-6236, 252-2530, www.shalyapin-museum.org
Fyodor Dostoevsky Apartment Museum:
Permanent display: a small exhibit devoted to the author of "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" in the house where he was born. Located at 2 Ul. Dostoyevskogo. M. Novoslobodskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wed. and Thurs. 1 to 7:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last day of the month. 495-681-1085, www.goslitmuz.ru/ru/dostoyevsky-museum
Gogol House:
Memorial Museum and Scholarly Library in this Moscow estate house where Nikolai Gogol spent his four last years. Located at 7A Nikitsky Bulvar. M. Arbatskaya. Mon., Wed., Fri. noon to 7 p.m., Thurs. 2 to 9 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 5 p.m., closed Tues. and the last day of the month. 495-9256, www.domgogolya.ru
Grinberg Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
Ukraine: Expropriation: exhibit of Ukrainian photography, to Nov. 15. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. 495-228-1170, www.grinbergphotos.com
Historical Museum:
The Bronze Age (Epokha Bronzy): permanent display.
The History of Russia From Ancient Times to the Early 20th Century (Istoriya Rossii s Drevneishikh Vremyon do Nachala 20 Veka): permanent display.
The Patriotic War of 1812 (Otechestvennaya Voina 1812 Goda): an addition to the permanent display.
The Romanovs. Portrait of the Dynasty (Romanovy. Portret Dinastii): paintings, sculptures, graphics, photographs and other items from the museum collection, to Jan. 30.
NEW Thracian Gold From Bulgaria (Frakiskoye Zoloto iz Bolgarii), to Nov. 30.
Historical Museum affiliate:
The Romanov Chambers in Zaryadye: authentic interiors of a 17th-century Russia boyar home, permanent display. Located at 1/2 Red Square. M. Ploshchad Revolyutsii. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., closed Tues. 495-692-4019, www.shm.ru
International Roerich Center:
Nikolai Roerich Museum: a collection of works by the great painter and philosopher known best for his landscapes of India, permanent display. Located at 3/5 Maly Znamensky Pereulok. M. Kropotkinskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mon. 499-271-3417/20, www.icr.su
International University Gallery:
Formal Relations: graphics by Kirill Mamonov and Viktoria Lomasko, to Oct. 13. Located at 17 Leningradsky Prospekt. M. Dynamo. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Sat. and Sun. 495-946-1049, interun.ru/gallery.html
Iragui Gallery:
Second Light: paintings by French artist Herve Ic, to Oct. 23. Located at 7 Malaya Polyanka. M. Polyanka. Tues. to Sat. 2 to 7 p.m., or by appointment 8-903-562-7241, 495-978-3213, www.iragui.com
Ivan Turgenev Museum:
Moscow. Ostozhenka. Turgenev: permanent display about the life and work of this beloved novelist, playwright and poet. 37 Ul. Ostozhenka. M. Park Kultury. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. noon to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon., Tues. and the last Friday of the month. 495-695-1078, www.pushkinmuseum.ru
Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere (Vezde Chuzhiye): contemporary art from the collection of Yana and Eduard Pomeranz, to Nov. 4.
History of the Jews: This multimedia interactive exposition focuses on key historical periods and begins at the "Beginning Theater" with a 4D film based on the Torah, permanent display. Located at 11 Ul. Obraztsova, Bldg. 1A. M. Savyolovskaya, then two stops by bus 12 to Ulitsa Obraztsova. Sun. to Thurs. noon to 10 p.m., Fri. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. closed Sat. and Jewish holidays. 495-645-0550, www. jewish-museum.ru
Kolomenskoye Estate Museum:
Russian Tsarist Estate: built between the 15th and 17th centuries, situated on a high bank of the Moscow River and now an architectural museum.
Stable Yard (Konyushenny Dvor): This exhibition complex includes stables with Orlov and Russian trotters, a coach house with carriages and sledges, a smithy and a hayloft. Located at 39 Prospekt Andropova. M. Kolomenskaya. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mon. 495-232-6190, mgomz.ru/kolomenskoe
Konstantin Stanislavsky Museum:
Permanent display: the home that was occupied by the co-founder of the Moscow Art Theater and the creator of the famous acting system. Located at 6 Leontyevsky Pereulok. M. Tverskaya. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thurs. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-629-2855, www.mxat.ru/museum
Kornei Chukovsky House Museum:
Permanent display: The famous dacha of Russia's most popular children's poet and an influential literary critic and essayist. Located in Peredelkino, 3 Ul. Serafimovicha. From Kievsky Station to Peredelkino. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 7:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last day of the month. 495-593-2670, goslitmuz.ru/ru/chukovsky-museum
Kovcheg Gallery:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Yegor Plotnikov shows paintings, to Oct. 11. Located at 12 Ul. Nemchinova. M. Timiryazevskaya, then bus 87 or 206 to Gostinitsa Molodyozhnaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 8:15 p.m., closed Mon. 499-977-0044/88, www.kovcheg-art.ru
Kuzminki Estate Museum:
Museum of Russian Estate Culture (Muzei Russkoi Usadebnoi Kultury): permanent display. Located in the Kuzminki Park at 6 Topolyovaya Alleya. M. Ryazansky Prospekt, then bus 29. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Fri. of the month. 495-377-9457, 376-7610, www.kuzminky.ru
Lefortovo Museum:
Lefortovo. Landmarks of History (Lefortovo. Vekhi Istorii): the history of this Moscow district named after a close associate of Tsar Peter the Great, Franz Lefort, whose troops were stationed nearby in the German Quarter, permanent display. Located at 23 Kryukovskaya Ul. M. Semyonovskaya, Aviamotornaya. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Fri. of the month. 495-360-0147, www.mosmuseum.ru/museum-menu-lefortovo.html
Leo Tolstoy Museum:
Permanent display: This museum dedicated to the author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" has three branches. Located at 11 Ul. Prechistenka. M. Kropotkinskaya. 499-766-9328. Branch at 12 Pyatnitskaya Ul. M. Novokuznetskaya. 495-951-5808. Branch in Khamovniki, 21 Ul. Lva Tolstogo. M. Park Kultury. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mon. 499-246-9444. Ticket offices open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. noon to 7:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the Last Friday of the month. www.tolstoymuseum.org
Lopasnya-Zachatyevskoye Estate Museum:
Permanent display: park with seven ponds and a main building, known first as the Goncharov House and later as the Pushkin Nest. The exhibit tells the story of ties of the estate owners the Vasilchikovs with the Pushkins, Lanskies and Goncharovs. Located in Chekhov, 10 Ul. Pushkina. M. Yuznaya, then bus 365 to Skver Imeni Chekhova. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Friday of the month. 496-723-0389, www.chekhov-melikhovo.com/index.php/en/museum-melikhovo/lopasnya
Lyublino Estate Museum:
Durasov Palace: perfectly preserved early 19th-century manor that belonged to Moscow landowner Nikolai Durasov, permanent display.
Palace and Park Ensemble, built by Moscow landowner Nikolai Durasov, represents the mode of life of the 19th-century Moscow nobility, permanent display. Located at 1 Letnyaya Ul. M. Volzhskaya. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mon. 499-722-7189, mgomz.ru/lublino
M&J Guelman Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
Forest (Les): works by Krasnodar artists, to Sun. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 495-228-1159, www.guelman.ru
Manezh Exhibition Hall:
FESTIVAL Biennale: More Light (Bolshe Sveta): the main project of this year's Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, to Oct. 20. Located at 1 Manezh Square. M. Okhotny Ryad, Alexandrovsky Sad. Noon to 10 p.m., closed Mon. 495-645-9277, www.moscowmanege.ru
Maria Yermolova Museum:
Permanent display: a small but elegant apartment museum dedicated to the great Maly Theater actress of the end of the 19th century. Located at 11 Tverskoi Bulvar. M. Tverskaya. Noon to 7 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 9 p.m. closed Tues. and the last Fri. the month. 495-690-5416/4901, www.bakhrushin.theatre.ru/branches/dme
Marina Tsvetayeva Museum:
Permanent display: house museum where the poet lived from 1914 to 1922. Located at 6 Borisoglebsky Pereulok. M. Arbatskaya, Smolenskaya. Noon to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. noon to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Friday of the month. 495-697-5369, www.dommuseum.ru
Mikhail Glinka Museum of Musical Culture:
Permanent display of musical instruments. Located at 4 Ul. Fadeyeva. M. Mayakovskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mon. and the last day of the month. 495-739-6226, www.glinka.museum
Mikhail Prishvin House Museum:
Summer Estate of Russian writer Mikhail Prishvin (1873-1954). Located at 2 Dunino Village. M. Molodyozhnaya, then bus 121 to Lesniye Dali, ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 6:30 p.m., closed Mon. 499-553-8132, www.prishvin.ru
Moscow Kremlin Museums:
NEW Coronations at the Moscow Kremlin: This large exhibit traces the evolution of the enthronement ritual in Russia from the 16th to the 19th century, to Jan. 22. Located at the Moscow Kremlin. Borovitsky Gate entrance. M. Borovitskaya. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Thurs. 495-695-4146, www.kreml.ru/en
Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Gogolevsky:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Bad Print (Plokhaya Pechat): paintings by Anton Kuznetsov, to Oct. 20.
NEW Pusenkoff & Pusenkoff. After Reality: paintings and installations by Georgy and Ilya Puzenkov, Wed. to Nov. 10. Located at 10 Gogolevsky Bulvar. Metro Kropotkinskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., ticket office to 7:15 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 9 p.m., ticket office to 8:15 p.m., closed every third Monday of the month. 495-231-3660, www.mmoma.ru
Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka:
NEW MT PICK Igor Vulokh (1938-2012): retrospective of works by this nonconformist artist, Oct. 16 to Nov. 24. Located at 25 Petrovka. M. Chekhovskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., ticket office to 7:15 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 9 p.m., ticket office to 8:15 p.m., closed every third Monday of the month. 495-231-3660, www.mmoma.ru
Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Tverskoi:
FESTIVAL Biennale: The Rehearsal of Freedom (Repetitsiya Svobody): an analytical installation by theater artist Ksenia Peretrukhina, to Oct. 20. Located at 9 Tverskoi Bulvar. M. Tverskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., ticket office to 7:15 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 9 p.m., ticket office to 8:15 p.m., closed every third Monday of the month. 495-231-3660, www.mmoma.ru
Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Yermolayevsky:
Open House (Otkryty Dom): retrospective of works by Andrei Roiter, to Sun. Located at 17 Yermolayevsky Pereulok. M. Mayakovskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., ticket office to 7:15 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 9 p.m., ticket office to 8:15 p.m., closed every third Monday of the month. 495-231-3660, www.mmoma.ru
Moscow Planetarium:
FESTIVAL Biennale: NEW Sluizen. Change of Poles: (Shlyuzy. Smena Polyusov): works by Dutch and Russian artists explore reality as an open communication system, Oct. 12 to Nov. 4.
Permanent shows: interactive museum with the Lunarium, Big and Small Star Halls, the Urania Museum and 4D Cinema Theater. Located at 5 Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Ul. M. Barrikadnaya. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., weekends and holidays 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., closed Tues. 495-221-7690, www.planetarium-moscow.ru
Multimedia Art Museum:
MT PICK Utopia and Reality? El Lissitzky, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, to Nov. 24. Located at 16 Ul. Ostozhenka. M. Kropotkinskaya. Ticket office open noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 495-637-1100, www.mamm-mdf.ru/en
Museum of Applied, Decorative and Folk Art:
5,000 Years of Pearl Fishing in Bahrain: This historical exhibit from museums in Bahrain also features rare examples of natural pearls, to Oct. 16.
FESTIVAL Biennale: Gennady Troshkov: retrospective of sculptures, paintings and graphics, to Oct. 25.
FESTIVAL Biennale: KRFTWRK: an installation by Austrian artist Reiner Prochaska, to Oct. 20.
Masterpieces of Soviet Porcelain from the 1920s to the 1970s, permanent display.
Russian Folk Art From the 18th to the 20th Century: permanent display.
Russian Style Treasures (Sokrovishcha Russkogo Stilya): works from the turn of the 20th century made at the Abramtsevo Estate art workshop, to Oct. 20.
Tsar's Game (Tsarskaya Igra): chess in works of decorative and applied art from the 18th to the 20th century from the museum collection, to Oct. 27. Located at 3 Delegatskaya Ul. M. Tsvetnoi Bulvar. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Tues. and the last Mon. of the month. 495-609-0146, Thurs. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., www.vmdpni.ru
Museum of Moscow:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Nothing of the Kind (Nichego Podobnogo): works by young artists, to Oct. 11.
Fashion in the Mirror of History (Moda v Zerkale Istorii): an exhibit from the collection of Alexander Vasilyev, to Sun.
The History of Moscow from old times to the present, permanent display. Located at 2 Zubovsky Bulvar, entrance from Ostozhenka. M. Park Kultury. Ticket office open Tues., Wed., Fri. 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Sat., Sun. 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Friday of the month. 499-766-4196, www.mosmuseum.ru
Museum of Private Collections:
Lazar Gadayev (1938-2008): sculptures and reliefs from the Way of the Cross series, to Oct. 13.
Permanent display in 23 halls includes 1,500 works of art. Located at 10 Ul. Volkhonka. M. Kropotkinskaya. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thurs.11 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-697-1610, www.arts-museum.ru, artprivatecollections.ru
Museum of Russian Icons:
Permanent display: East European Christian art from the 6th to the 20th century. Located at 3 Goncharnaya Naberezhnaya, entrance from Bolshoi Vatin Pereulok. M. Taganskaya. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Wed. 495-221-5283, www.russikona.ru
Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Decoding: Archetype of Adequate Time: sculptural objects, installations and photographs by Konstantin Selikhanov and Andrei Shchukin, to Oct. 20.
From the English Club to the Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia: permanent display.
State Symbols of Russia. History and the Present Day (Gosudarstvennaya Simvolika Rossii. Istoriya i Sovremennost): permanent display. Located at 21 Tverskaya Ul., M. Tverskaya. Ticket office open Tues., Wed. and Fri. 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.,Thurs. and Sat. 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed Mon. 495-699-5458, www.sovr.ru
Museum of the Jewish History in Russia:
Permanent display: artifacts representing the history of Jews who lived under Russian rule after the three partitions of Poland. Located at 10 Petrovsko-Razumovskaya Alleya, Bldg.3. M. Dynamo. Mon. to Wed. and Fri. noon to 7 p.m., Thurs. noon to 9 p.m., Sun. noon to 5 p.m., closed Sat. Free admission. 495-656-4571, www.mievr.ru
Museum of Unique Dolls:
Permanent display of antique dolls. Located at 13 Ul. Pokrovka. M. Turgenevskaya, Kitai-Gorod, Chistiye Prudy. Fri., Sat. Sun. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tues., Wed. Thurs. excursions at noon, 2 and 6 p.m., closed Mon. Free admission. 495-625-6405/7512, www.dollmuseum.ru
Na Solyanke Gallery:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Performance Architecture: works by British architect and artist Alex Schweder, to Nov. 17.
Tango: Zbigniew Rybczynski's 1983 award-winning experimental short shows thirty-six characters interacting in one room, to Nov. 17. Located at 1/2 Solyanka. M. Kitai-Gorod. Mon. to Thurs. 2 to 10 p.m., Fri. noon to midnight, Sat. and Sun. noon to 10 p.m. 495-621-5672, solyanka.org
Nagornaya Gallery:
Museum of Friends (Muzei Druzei): works from the collection of Russian restorer, art historian and essayist Savva Yamshchikov (1938-2009), to Oct. 13. Located at 10 Ul. Remizova. M. Nagornaya. Noon to 7 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 499-123-6569, 127-4702, www.galereya-nagornaya.ru
Nashi Khudozhniki Gallery:
MT PICK Pavel Tchelitchew. The Encore Exhibit: retrospective of works by this Russian-born painter, set and costume designer (1898-1957), to Oct. 17. Located at 2 Sechenovsky Pereulok. M. Molodyozhnaya. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 495-637-2810/52, www.kournikovagallery.ru
Nemirovich-Danchenko Apartment Museum:
Permanent display: the home that was occupied by the stage director, playwright and co-founder of the Moscow Art Theater. Located at 5/7 Glinishchevsky Pereulok, entrance 5, apt. 52. M. Tverskaya. 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-650-5391, www.mxat.ru/museum
New Tretyakov Gallery:
Alexander Rodchenko. Workers Club: (1885-1953): The reconstructed interior of a club for workers designed by this constructivist artist, permanent display.
FESTIVAL Biennale: Modern Art Museum: The Department of Labor and Employment (Muzei Sovremennogo Iskusstva: Departament Truda i Zanyatosti): a retrospective look at the history of labor, to March 30.
Main exhibit halls: a display of 20th-century Russian art.
NEW MT PICK Natalia Goncharova (1881-1964): over 400 works by this prominent and influential avant-garde artist from Russian, French and Dutch museums, Oct. 16 to Feb. 16.
MT PICK Piet Mondrian (1872-1944): works by this Dutch pioneer of abstract art from the Hague Municipal Museum (Gemeentemuseum den Haag), to Nov. 24. Located at 10 Krymsky Val. M. Oktyabrskaya, Park Kultury. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., closed Mon. 499-230-7788, 238-1378, 495-951-1362. Excursions 495-953-5223. An Autoline minibus runs from outside the New Tretyakov Gallery to the Tretyakov Gallery at 10/12 Lavrushinsky Pereulok daily at 12:20, 1:20, 2:20, 3:20 and 4:20 p.m., www.tretyakovgallery.ru
New Western Art Gallery:
Covers of American Magazines from the turn of the 20th century from the museum collection, to Oct. 10.
European and American Art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Located at 14 Volkhonka. M. Kropotkinskaya. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thurs. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 495-697-1546, www.arts-museum.ru, www.newpaintart.ru
Nikolai Golovanov Apartment Museum:
Memorial Apartment of this distinguished conductor who was expelled from the Bolshoi Theater three times, in 1928, 1936 and 1953, permanent display. Located at 7 Bryusov Pereulok, apt. 10. M. Tverskaya, Pushkinskaya. Open Mon. and Wed. 2 to 5 p.m. 495-629-7083, www.glinka.museum/about/apartment_museum_golovanov
Novodevichy Bogoroditse-Smolensky Novodevichy Convent:
Novodevichy Convent and Cemetery: A beautiful 17th-century convent complex that was founded in 1524 by Tsar Vasily III, then, after the Time of Troubles, was significantly rebuilt and enhanced by the Regent Sofia, who was later confined here by Peter the Great with his unwanted first wife. Now belongs to the Moscow Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church. Located at 1 Novodevichy Proyezd. M. Sportivnaya. 499-245-3168, www.mepar.ru/eparhy/temples/?temple=1166
Novy Manezh:
FESTIVAL Biennale: 0 Performance — The Fragile Beauty of Crisis: international show, to Fri. Located at 3 Georgiyevsky Pereulok. M. Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya. Noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 495-645-9277, www.moscowmanege.ru
Oriental Art Museum:
MT PICK Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (1905-93): paintings by this prominent painter who belonged to the Amaravella group of Russian cosmist artsists, to Oct. 13.
NEW Brunei Darussalam, the Abode of Peace: Sergei Kovalchuk shows photographs from Borneo, to Oct. 16.
Permanent Displays: art of Korea, India, Iran, China, Asia, Siberia and others, permanent display. Located at 12 Nikitsky Bulvar. M. Arbatskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Thurs. noon to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon. 495-691-9614/0212, www.orientmuseum.ru
Pop/off/art Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Furious Like a Child: photographs by Margo Ovcharenko, to Oct. 20. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 495-775-8706, popoffart.com
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts:
MT PICK Dutch Golden Age Group Portraits (Gollandsky Gruppovoi Portret Zolotogo Veka): 17th-century group portraits from the Amsterdam Museum collection, to Jan. 19.
Permanent collection: works from ancient Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome, plus works from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.
MT PICK Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde paintings and the applied arts from British and American museum and private collections, to Oct. 13. Located at 12 Volkhonka. M. Kropotkinskaya. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thurs. to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 495-697-9578, www.arts-museum.ru
Rabochy i Kolkhoznitsa Exhibition Center:
Weightlessness (Nevesomost): conceptual installations by Yury Albert, Anna Zhyolud, Irina Korina and others, to Oct. 15. Located at 123B Prospekt Mira, Bldg. B. M. VDNKh. Tues. to Sun. noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 495-645-9277, www.moscowmanege.ru
Regina Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
FESTIVAL Biennale: The Library of Optimism (Biblioteka Optimizma): an installation by Sergei Zarva, to Oct. 31. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Sun. and Mon. Free admission. 495-228-1330, www.reginagallery.com
Roza Azora Gallery:
NEW Landscapes: graphic works by Yevgeny Ass, Wed. to Oct. 28.
The Idyll: naive paintings and sculptures by Pavel Leonov and Igor Delitsin, to Sun. Located at 14 Nikitsky Bulvar. Mon. to Sat. noon to 8 p.m., Sun. noon to 6 p.m. 495-695-8119, www.rozaazora.ru
RuArts Gallery:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Chernukha: Curator Kirill Preobrazhensky's project explores this aspect of late Soviet cinema and literature. On display are works by students and graduates of the Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, to Oct. 19. Located at 10 1st Zachatyevsky Pereulok. M. Kropotkinskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. Free admission. 495-637-4475, www.ruarts.ru
Sergei Konenkov Studio Museum:
Permanent display: Works by this influential Russian and Soviet sculptor who spent more than 20 years in the United States and returned home in 1945 at the age of 71. Located at 17 Tverskaya Ul. M. Tverskaya, Pushkinskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., closed Mon., Tues. and the last Friday of the month. 495-629-6139, www.rah.ru/museums/muzey_masterskaya_s_t_konenkova.php
Sergei Prokofiev Museum:
Memorial Apartment where the composer lived from 1947 to 1953, permanent display. Located at 6 Kamergersky Pereulok. M. Teatralnaya, Okhotny Ryad. Wed. to Sun. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-692-7959, www.glinka.museum/about/museum_of_prokofiev
Shchusev Architecture Museum:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Together and Apart — Urban Families in 20th-Century Russia (Vmeste i Vroz — Gorodskaya Semya v Rossii v 20 Veke) in photographs, objects and films. Shchusev Architecture Museum and the Amsterdam International Institute of Social History joint exhibit, to Oct. 27.
Shchusev Architecture Museum:
Totan Kuzembaev: installations by this architect and designer, to Nov. 2. Located at 5 Vozdvizhenka. M. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina, Arbatskaya, Alexandrovsky Sad. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 7 p.m., closed Mon. 495-691-2109, www.muar.ru
Silver Age Museum:
Bryusov House: "Valery Bryusov Memorial Study" and "Pushkin and the Silver Age of Russian Literature," permanent displays. Located at 30 Prospekt Mira. M. Prospekt Mira (circle line). Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. and Fri. 1 to 7:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last day of the month. 495-680-8683, www.goslitmuz.ru/ru/bryusov-museum
Slovak Institute:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Metamorphoses of Material (Metamorfozy Materiala): works by Slovak artists, to Oct. 11. Located at 27 2nd Brestskaya Ul. M. Belorusskaya. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sat. and Sun. 495-956-4928.
St. Basil's Cathedral:
Sacred Relics of the Pokrovsky Cathedral (Svyatyni Pokrovskogo Sobora): stunning medieval interior, icons, books and other religious relics. Located at 2 Red Square. M. Ploshchad Revolyutsii. Ticket office open in summer, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., in winter 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 495-698-3304 www.saintbasil.ru
Start Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
Kirill Makarov: debut exhibit of paintings by this young artist, to Sun. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. 917-4646, www.winzavod.ru/start
State Center of Contemporary Art:
FESTIVAL Biennale: NEW Miroslaw Balka. Fragment: video works from 1998-2010, Oct. 10 to Nov. 10.
State Center of Contemporary Art:
FESTIVAL Contemporary Art Collections: Selected videos and installations from the De Hallen Haarlem Museum (The Netherlands), to Sat. Located at 13 Zoologicheskaya Ul. M. Krasnopresnenskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., Thurs. noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 499-254-8492/0674, www.ncca.ru
State Literary Museum:
Permanent display: books, manuscripts and other items that tell the stories of Russia's great writers. Located at 28 Ul. Petrovka. M. Chekhovskaya. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thurs. 2 to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 495-625-1226, www.goslitmuz.ru/ru/gos-lit-museum
Stella Art on Skaryatinsky:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Off-Modern: Ruins of the Future: works by Rem Koolhaas, Svetlana Boym, Tobias Putrih, Allen Sayegh, Anri Sala and others, to Nov. 10. Located at 7 Skaryatinsky Pereulok. M. Barrikadnaya. Noon to 7 p.m., closed Mon. 495-691-3407, www.safmuseum.org
Svyatoslav Richter Memorial Apartment:
Permanent display: the great pianist's apartment, with a display of photos and paintings, video and sound recordings. Located at 2/6 Bolshaya Bronnaya Ul., Apt. 59. M. Pushkinskaya. By appointment Tues., Thurs. and the third Saturday of the month noon to 2 p.m. 495-695-8346, 697-7205, www.sviatoslav-richter.ru
Tchaikovsky and Moscow Museum:
Memorial Apartment where the composer lived from September 1872 to November 1873, permanent display. Located at 46/54 Kudrinskaya Ploshchad. M. Barrikadnaya. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-691-1514, www.glinka.museum/about/museum_of_moscow_tchaikovsky
The GULAG History Museum:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Metamorphoses: installations by Tarbeyev, Marina Fomenko, Darya Chelkovskaya and Innokenty Sharkov, to Oct. 21.
Permanent display: Documents, letters, memoirs and personal belongings of GULAG prisoners. Located at 16 Ul. Petrovka. M. Kuznetsky Most, Teatralnaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thurs. noon to 7 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Friday of the week. 495-621-7310, www.gmig.ru
Tretyakov Gallery:
Gifts and Acquisitions (Dary i Priobreteniya): new items in the collection of 18th- and early 20th-century graphics, to Nov. 3.
Illarion Golitsyn (1928-2007): drawings, prints, watercolors and paintings, to Nov. 17 in the Engineer Wing.
Main exhibit halls: masterpieces of Russian icon art and world-famous 19th- and early 20th-century paintings. Located at 10/12 Lavrushinsky Pereulok. M. Tretyakovskaya. Ticket office open Tues., Wed., Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thurs. and Fri. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 499-230-7788, 238-1378, 495-951-1362. An Autoline minibus runs from outside the Tretyakov Gallery to the New Tretyakov Gallery at 10 Krymsky Val daily at noon, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 p.m., www.tretyakovgallery.ru
Triumph Gallery:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Facedes: new works of clay and an installation by architect and artist Alexander Brodsky, to Mon. Located at 3 Delegatskaya Ul. M. Tsvetnoi Bulvar. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Tues. and the last Mon. of the month. 495-609-0146, Thurs. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., www.vmdpni.ru
Tsaritsyno Museum:
Catherine the Great: (Velikaya Yekaterina): an exhibit devoted to the Russian empress, permanent display.
Catherine the Great and Frederick the Great: This exhibit focusing on the Russian Empress and the Prussian King presents the 18th century through film and authentic artifacts, to Nov. 3 in Khlebny Dom.
Grand Ball (Bolshoi Bal): paintings, graphics, costumes and accessories from Moscow and St. Petersburg museums tell about this phenomenon in the history of Russian society from the 18th to the 20th century, to Sun.
Masterpieces of the Tsaritsyno Art Collection (Shedevry Khudozhestvennogo Sobraniya Tsaritsyno): West European tapestry from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and 20th-century Russian glass and tapestry, permanent display.
Meissen Porcelain from Russian museum collections, to Sun.
The Past and Present of Tsaritsyno (Byl i Nov Tsaritsina): the history of Tsaritsyno, permanent display.
The Silver Storeroom (Serebryanaya Kladovaya): works of Russian jewelry from the 16th to the 20th century, permanent display.
Tsaritsyno Antiquities (Tsaritsynskiye Drevnosti): archaeological findings, permanent display. Located at 1 Dolskaya Ul. M. Tsaritsyno, Orekhovo. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Sun. and holidays 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., closed Mon. Park open daily 6 a.m. to midnight. 499-725-7287, www.tsaritsyno.net
Udarnik:
Kandinsky Prize 2013: works by nominees, to Nov. 10. Located at 2 Ul. Serafimovicha. M. Polyanka, Kropotkinskaya. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 495-657-9758.
Vadim Zadorozhny's Vehicles Museum:
Permanent displays: retro cars, motorcycles, weaponry and airplanes. Located at Posyolok Arkhangelskoye, 4th km of Ilyinskoe Shosse, Bldg. 8. M. Tushinskaya, bus 541, 549, 568, 151, 541, 549, 568. M. Strogino, shuttle Strogino-Zacharkovo to Lipovaya Alleya. By car Novorizhskoe Shosse, near Arkhangelskoye. Ticket office open Tues. to Fri. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mon. 495-662-3818, www.tmuseum.ru
Vasily Pushkin House Museum:
Small Mansion where this Russian neoclassical poet and an uncle of Alexander Pushkin lived from 1824 to 1830, permanent display. Located at 36 Staraya Basmannaya Ul. M. Krasniye Vorota. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thurs. noon to 8:30 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Fri. of the month. 495-637-5674, www.pushkinmuseum.ru
Viktor Vasnetsov House Museum:
Teremok: This Russian-style house, where the painter lived from 1894 to 1926, was built to Vasnetsov's sketches and drawings, permanent display. Located at 13 Pereulok Vasnetsova. M. Prospekt Mira. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mon., Tues. and the last Thursday of the month. 495-681-1329, www.tretyakovgallery.ru/ru/museum/branch/dmvasnecov
Vladimir Vernadsky Geological Museum:
Permanent displays: Planet Earth, the History of Earth, the World of Minerals, Geological Curiosities and other displays. Located at 11 Mokhovaya Ul., Bldg. 2. M. Okhotny Ryad. Ticket office open Tues. to Fri. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 6 p.m., closed Mon. 495-692-0943, www.sgm.ru
Vsevolod Meyerhold Apartment Museum:
Permanent display: a small museum devoted to the director who, until his arrest and murder in prison in 1940, was one of the world leaders of the avant-garde. Located at 12 Bryusov Pereulok, Apt. 11. M. Pushkinskaya. Ticket office open noon to 5:30 p.m., closed Mon., Tues. and the last Friday of the month. 495-629-9437, www.bakhrushin.theatre.ru/branches/mkm
Watercolor and Fine Arts Academy:
Museum of Watercolors: permanent display. Located at 15 Ul. Akademika Vargi. M. Tyoply Stan, bus 144, 227, 281 to Ulitsa Akademika Vinogradova. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-531-5555, ext. 298, www.academy.andriaka.ru
Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Abstract Abstruse (Truslivy Traktor): surrealistic sculptures by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, to Wed. in Tsekh Krasnogo Hall.
FESTIVAL Biennale: NEW Miroslaw Balka. Fragment: the final part of his geopolitical video triptych "Poland — Germany — Russia," Oct. 11 to Nov. 13 in Hall 21.
FESTIVAL Biennale: Perm Coral Reef (Permsky Korallovy Rif): works by Russian artists, to Oct. 20.
FESTIVAL Biennale: Shelter for the Sniper (Priyut Dlya Snaipera): Sergei Sonin and Yelena Smorodova show a multimedia installation about the Russian forest, to Oct. 20 in the Transatlantique Gallery.
Parts of the Whole (Chasti Tselogo): an installation by the Vglaz group of artists, to Sat. in Brodilny Tsekh Hall. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. 495-917-4646, www.winzavod.ru
Yekaterina Cultural Foundation:
FESTIVAL Biennale: MT PICK Challenging Boundaries. Breakthroughs in British Art from 1988 to 1998, to Dec. 14.
FESTIVAL Biennale: Reconstruction of Moscow artistic life from 1900 to 1995, to Nov. 24. Located at 21 Kuznetsky Most, entrance No. 8 from Ul. Bolshaya Lubyanka. M. Kuznetsky Most. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., closed Mon. 495-621-5522, www.ekaterina-fondation.ru
Zoological Museum of Moscow University:
Permanent displays: All groups of animals, from single-celled to birds and mammals, mostly moulages. Located at 6 Bolshaya Nikitskaya Ul. M. Okhotny Ryad. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mon. and the last Tues. of the month. 495-629-4435, zmmu.msu.ru
Zurab Tsereteli Arts Gallery:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Venti par Una: contemporary Italian art, to Oct. 20.
Landscapes of Contemplation (Landshafty Razdumy): paintings and photographs by Jonathan Luke, to Oct. 13.
NEW Sculpture. Life. Passion (Skulptura. Zhizn. Strast): sculptures, graphics and photographs by Mateo Mornar, to Oct. 13. Located at 19 Prechistenka. M. Kropotkinskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., Sun. noon to 7 p.m., closed Mon. 495-637-2569/4771, www.tsereteli.ru, www.rah.ru
Zverev Center of Contemporary Art:
FESTIVAL Biennale: Art Against Art (Iskusstvo Protiv Iskusstva), to Oct. 20. Located at 29 Novoryazanskaya Ul., Bldg. 4. M. Baumanskaya. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. 499-265-6166, www.zverevcenter.ru
