Museum Of Private Collections

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  • Address
    ul Volkhonka 14, Kropotkinskaya
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  • Phone
    203 1546
  • Transport
    underground rail: Kropotkinskaya

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Lonely Planet review

Next door to the Pushkin, the smaller museum shows off art collections donated by private individuals, many of whom amassed the works during the Soviet era. Exhibits are organised around the collections, each as a whole, and the collectors and donors are featured along with the art. The centrepiece, perhaps, is the collection of the museum's founder, Ilya Silberstein, an accomplished historian of Russian literature and art.

Other highlights include a collection of Old Believer icons from the 16th-20th centuries, the Lemkul room exhibiting fantastic glassworks, and impressive exhibits of 20th-century artists like Alexander Rodchenko and Barbara Stepanova.