10 best museums in Russia

Russia's cultural heritage is famous for its wealth around the world. Tourists from dozens of different countries come to look at our museums and monuments of architecture. And many of them are users of the famous tourist portal TripAdvisor. According to the feedback on this site, was compiled the top 10 museums in Russia .

Thousands of tourists, Russian and foreign, voted for each of the world-famous museums that entered the top ten.

10. The Armory Chamber, Moscow

This museum is part of the complexThe Great Kremlin Palace. Here you can see ancient state regalia, a collection of gold and silver items of Russian masters, ceremonial royal and church clothes, arms of Russian and European armies of the XIV-XIX centuries.

9. Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, Moscow

This is the main building of the legendary Tretyakov Gallery. The Tretyakov family acquired this building in 1851.Today hundreds of Muscovites and guests of the capital come here, not only to see the famous canvases, but also to pray in the church of St. Nicholas before the icon of Vladimir the Virgin.

8. Diamond Fund, Moscow

The collection of the Diamond Fund began to be formed in the XVIII century on the initiative of Peter I. Until 1914, decorations of many generations of Russian autocrats were stored in the Diamond Room of the Petersburg Winter Palace. But during the First World War the treasury was evacuated to the Kremlin, and in 1967 the first exhibition of the Diamond Fund was opened in Moscow.

7. Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow

For a long time this building became the focus of the exhibition life of the capital, while the reconstruction of the complex in Lavrushinsky Lane was underway. Today, an exposition of 20th-century art objects is open on Krymsky Val. There are often master classes, lectures, conferences and creative evenings.

6. The Pushkin Museum. A.C.Pushkin, Moscow

The museum collection is one of the largest collections of works of Russian and foreign art. The museum was founded in 1898, and today its funds number more than 670,000 units of storage. More than 1 million people visit the Pushkin Museum annually.

5. Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve, Moscow

The first written mention of Kolomna dates back to 1336.Today this historical-architectural and natural-landscape museum is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year. On the territory of Kolomenskoye in the church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, one of the most venerated icons among the orthodox icons is the Mother of God "Derzhavnaya".

4. Museum-apartment of A.S.Pushkin, St. Petersburg

The Memorial Museum is located on the embankment of the Moika River in house number 12.The museum exposition tells about the last months of the poet's life. It was in this house that Alexander Sergeevich, mortally wounded in a duel, died in 1837.Most of the things in the museum's collection belonged to the poet himself, his family and friends.

3. Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg

This private modern art museum is located in the Northern Capital on Vasilievsky Island. The museum is very young - its first visitors it accepted in 2010.The collection contains not only paintings, but also sculpture, graphics, installations and even video art-sketches.

2. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Founded in 1895, the Russian Museum became the first state museum of fine art in the country. The museum's collection includes more than 400 thousand exhibits dated from the 10th to the 21st century. The Russian Museum presents all types, genres and directions of Russian art

1. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

The collection of one of the largest museums in the world has about 3 million exhibits. Here you can enjoy painting, drawing, sculpture, applied art, study objects of everyday life of different peoples, numismatic exhibits and archaeological finds. If you spend at least a few minutes at each exposition, then the whole museum will take about 5 years to bypass.