Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Also known as Pushkin Art Museum, Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Pushkin Fine Art Museum Moscow, Pushkin Museum Moscow, Alexander Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Museum of Fine Arts, Pushkin Museum, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
museum of European art in Moscow
Key facts
- Established
- 1912 ( 1912 )
- Location
- 12, Volkhonka Street , Khamovniki , Moscow , Russia
- Type
- Art museum
- Founder
- Ivan Tsvetaev
- Director
- Olga Galaktionova
- Public transit access
- Kropotkinskaya
- Website
- pushkinmuseum .art
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The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Russian: Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина, romanized: Gosudarstvennyy muzey izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv imeni A. S. Pushkina, abbreviated as Russian: ГМИИ, GMII) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow. It is located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The International musical festival Sviatoslav Richter's December Nights has been held in the Pushkin Museum since 1981.
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