Visiting Museums in Moscow

If you are a fan of writer Anton Chekhov, you certainly will not want to miss the opportunity to visit a former residence of the well known short story writer. The museum houses a number of exhibits that details both the life as well as the works of this highly prolific writer. Chekhov house should definitely be at the top of your list of things to see and do while in Moscow.

Doctor Zhivago fans will certainly enjoy the opportunity to explore the Pasternak Dacha Museum. Boris Pasternak is considered to be one of the most prominent writers in Russia. The Pasternak Dacha Museum is enshrined in the writer's own dacha.

You certainly will not want to miss the Pushkin Memorial Apartment on the Arbat either. This museum chronicles the life and works of the well known poet and can be found in a blue Empire style building on Arbat Street where Pushkin once worked with his wife in 1831. You can find out more about the writer by also visiting Pushkin State Museum, which offers ten rooms of correspondence, first editions, personal sketches and other memorabilia from the life and works of Pushkin.

Are you something of a history buff? If so, then you will certainly delight in the chance to trace the history of this charming city through a variety of displays at the Archeological Museum. Here, you will find artifacts that date as far back at the 12th century, the time at which the city of Moscow was first founded by Prince Yury Dolgoruky. You can find out more about the history of Moscow by visiting the Museum of the History of Moscow. This museum first opened to the public in 1896 and since that time has built up an impressive array of exhibits that detail the history of Moscow from its earliest days through modern times.

The Moscow Metro system is known for its impressive variety of lavish sculptures and artwork. The Metro Museum details the history as well as the development of the subway system in Moscow, from the time that it was begun in 1935 by Stalin through present day.

The Shchusev Museum was constructed for the purpose of illustrating the wealth and variety of the architectural history of Moscow. In this museum you will see exhibits from medieval architecture to modern architectural photographs, models, lithographs and engravings.

The Central Museum of the Revolution is the perfect place to visit if you want to learn more about the way in which the Romanov dynasty was overthrown during the early 20th century during the Russian Revolution and the beginning of the Soviet state.

One of the more interesting museums to visit is Lenin's Mausoleum. The embalmed body of the Soviet Communism's founder rests here more than 70 years after his death. The body is housed in a highly modern granite cube type building on Red Square, near the walls of the Kremlin.

The Race for Space will come alive when you visit the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, which was established for the purpose tracing the history of space exploration in Russia from the 1920s to modern times.

The Politechnical Museum contains more than 20,000 different working models, diagrams, artifacts and experiments from industry, technology, science and communication. You will find everything from the first radio receiver that was built in 1895 to the creation of the period of elements in 1871.