State Historical Museum
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national history museum in Moscow, Russia
Key facts
- Established
- 1872 ; 154 years ago ( 1872 )
- Location
- Moscow , Russia
- Type
- Historical
- Website
- shm .ru
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- digital library
- Official name
- Государственный Исторический музей
- Award
- Order of Lenin
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Tverskoy District
- Founded by
- Aleksey Uvarov
- Location
- Moscow
- Official website
- shm.ru
- Image
- Moscow July 2011-1a.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Moscow State Historical Museum
- Commons category
- Moscow State Historical Museum
- copyright status
- public domain
- online access status
- open access
- inception
- 1872-01-01
- architectural style
- Russian Revival architecture
- Commons Institution page
- State Historical Museum
- date of official opening
- 1872-00-00
- native label
- Государственный исторический музей
- architect
- Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood
- street address
- Красная пл., 1, Москва, 109012
- social media followers
- 14300
- official shop URL
- shop.shm.ru
- short name
- ГИМ
- collection or exhibition size
- 14000000
- online catalog URL
- catalog.shm.ru
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Encyclopedic overview
The State Historical Museum (Russian: Государственный исторический музей, ГИМ, romanized: Gosudarstvennyy istoricheskiy muzey, GIM) of Russia is a museum of Russian history located between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow. The museum's exhibitions range from relics of prehistoric tribes that lived in the territory of present-day Russia, to priceless artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty. The total number of objects in the museum's collection numbers in the millions.
Description
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