Have you ever visit the Museum of Fine Arts.Pushkin in Moscow?If you have never been there, it is a great pity, becauseit is one of the most interesting places in the capital!Today the Pushkin Museum exhibition are on a par with the collections of such titans of world cultural heritage, like the Louvre or the Hermitage.
bit of history It all started in 1898, August 17.Museum of Fine Arts.Pushkin was laid precisely in that distant summer day.It was intended primarily for the dissemination and promotion of knowledge in the arts among the general Russian public, as well as for students studying sculpture.It must be said that the project of the museum worked the most educated people of that time.Money for the construction of (most of them) donated Russian famous philanthropist YuNechayev-Maltsev.The project of the building has developed a talented architect RIKlein.Before you begin a responsible job, Klein studied for a long time a museum of Egypt and Greece, as well as the European experience.
When built Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Klein helped engineer Vladimir Shukhov and Ivan Rerberg.The first was the author of the original translucent slabs of the main museum building, and the second was the deputy project manager.During the construction of the complex Klein was awarded the title of academician of architecture.
amazing architectural style
Look carefully at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, a photo of which is shown below, and you can see that it is very similar to the ancient temple (Greek) from ancient times, towering among dense trees.Like the ancient cult buildings, the building stands on a high stone podium and surrounded by majestic Ionic columns.
Colonnade This reproduces the exact proportions of the columns of the portico of the temple of the Erechtheion on the Greek Acropolis.However, the architectural style of the Museum of Fine Arts.Pushkin is close to classicism.But this is only the outside.Once inside, visitors enter the spacious rooms, flooded with light, which provides access to the glass dome.This unusual ceiling proves nothing of neoclassicism.By the way, when the museum was built, electric lighting in general has not been provided for in the project.It was believed that the sculptures is best to contemplate in natural light.
Collections
interesting fact is that the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts before the October Revolution that struck Russia in 1917, was the only museum of sculpture.There were exhibited skillfully made copies of ancient mosaics and statues.At that time, only the scripts were presented exhibits from the collections of Egyptology Golenishcheva.
But after the October Revolution museum exhibits supplemented with paintings, confiscated from private collections of Russian aristocracy and nationalized by the Bolsheviks.So, for example, the famous painting "The Girl on the ball" (Pablo Picasso) and "The Red Vineyard" (Dutchman Van Gogh) were in the Pushkin Museum from the collections of the merchant Morozov.
Today Museum Pushkin Fine Arts is proud to present its visitors a rich collection of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.Here we can enjoy the paintings of Camille Pissarro, Arnie Matisse, Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Sisley, Edgar Degas, Toulouse Lautrec and Van Gogh still unique, and other great painters.
Also at the Pushkin Museum, you can see the Italian painting of 18-20 centuries, Japanese and British engraving, copies of masterpieces of ancient art, including a huge sculpture of Michelangelo's David, and more.Total Museum of Fine Arts.Pushkin 700 thousand stores. Items, and for the year it is visited by nearly half a million people.
Events held in the museum
Thursdays in the evening and on Friday afternoon in the museum for everyone interesting activities carried out under the name of "Conversations about art."Lectures are devoted to all the main sections of the exhibition, as well as various seasonal exhibitions, regularly scheduled at this cultural center.
Since 2012, the Pushkin Museum annually takes part in the All-Russian cultural event "Night of Museums".Also become a tradition exquisite musical "Evenings of Svyatoslav Richter" - an international music festival, held under the arches of the Pushkin Museum every year in December.
tourists on a note
If you plan to visit the Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin for the first time in my life, do not mix it with other Moscow museum named after the great Russian poet, which is located at Prechistenka.The main building of the Pushkin Museum is located in Volkhonka in the house at number 12.
Tourists need to know that in the Pushkin Museum is not allowed to smoke, to use cellular communication (this is mauvais ton), touch the museum exhibits, flash photography, making the halls of flowers,there is a cafe area.Bags and large umbrellas should be left in the cloakroom.
