Pushkin Fine Arts Museum

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Lonely Planet review

Moscow's premier foreign art museum is a short distance from the southwestern corner of the Kremlin. The Pushkin Fine Arts Museum is famous for its impressionist and postimpressionist paintings, but also has a broad selection of European works from the Renaissance onward, mostly appropriated from private collections after the revolution. There are also interesting temporary exhibits on regular display.

In 1993 the Pushkin admitted that it held the gold of ancient Troy, found by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in the 19th century; then in 1995 it unveiled a stash of 63 works by the likes of Degas, Renoir, Goya, El Greco and Tintoretto that had been thought lost for 50 years.

So keep an eye open for any special exhibitions at the Pushkin, for those occasions when - like the Hermitage in St Petersburg - it reveals other fabulous art hoards kept secret since they were seized by the Red Army from Germany at the end of WWII. The museum is also making an effort to mount some ambitious temporary exhibitions from its vast legitimate holdings.