Moscow Art Galleries

(Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia)

The art scene is Moscow is currently thriving and many excellent galleries are located around the city. Amongst the best worth visiting, the Moscow Modern Art Museum (Muzei Sovremennogo Iskusstva) can be found within the Boulevard Ring and specialises in 20th-century contemporary works and post-modernist paintings. Many famous artists are represented here amongst the 1,500 art works, with favourites including Birstein, Chagall, Konchalovsky, Picasso and Steinberg.

A series of well-lit galleries await within the Moscow Sculpture House (Moskovskii Dom Skul'ptury) on the Pervyi Spasonalivkovskii Pereulok within the Garden Ring. Each month, this gallery holds a number of exhibitions, with paintings, sculptures and ceramics in all shapes and sizes.


One of the most noteworthy art galleries in the whole of Russia can be found on the southern side of Moscow, within the Central House of Artists (Tsentral'nyi Dom Khudozhnikov). Every year well over half a million people visit this premier exhibition space of some 10,000 square metres / 107,650 square feet.

Highlights include Soviet art from the 20th-century and paintings by acclaimed artists such as Giorgio Morandi and Salvador Dali. Other notable Moscow art galleries include the Galereia Elisium, Gertsev Art Gallery and also the Soiuz Tvorchestvo, where around 50 artists exhibit their works each year, with its fortnightly exhibitions. Don't miss the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, which is most famous for its many impressionist paintings and European works.

Galereia Elisium (Elysium Art Gallery)

Address: Krymsky Val 10, Moscow, RU-119049, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 230 0077

Gertsev Art Gallery

Address: Karetnyi Riad 5-10, Moscow, RU-103006, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 650 7015

Khodynka State Exhibition Gallery

Address: Levchenko Ulitsa 2, Moscow, RU-123298, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 943 6941

Marat Guelman Gallery

Address: Malaia Polianka Ulitsa 7, Moscow, RU-119180, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 238 8492

Moskovskii Dom Skul'ptury (Moscow Sculpture House)

Address: Pervyi Spasonalivkovskii Pereulok 4, Moscow, RU-113049, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 238 4333

Muzei Konstantina Vasilieva (Konstantin Vasiliev Museum)

Address: Cherepovetskaia Ulitsa 3b, Moscow, RU-127576, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 517 5065

Tretyakovskaya Galereya (State Tretyakov Gallery / National Museum of Russian Art)

Address: Lavrushinsky Per 10, Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 951 1362

Muzei Narodnoi Grafiki (Folk Graphics Museum and Gallery)

Address: Malyi Golovin Pereulok 10, Moscow, RU-103045, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 208 5182

Muzei Sovremennogo Iskusstva (Modern Art Museum)

Address: Petrovka Ulitsa 25, Moscow, RU-107031, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 694 2890

Pushkin Fine Arts Museum

Address: Ulitsa Volkhonka 12, Moscow, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 203 7998

Schatz I Gallery

Address: Krymskii Val 10, Moscow, RU-119049, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 238 2045

Shilov Art Gallery

Address: Ulitsa Znamenka 5, Moscow, RU-121019, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 203 4208

Soiuz Tvorchestvo (Contemporary Russian Art Gallery)

Address: Triumfalnaia Ploshchad 1, Moscow, RU-125047, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 251 1291

Tret'iakovskaia Galereia (Tretiakov Art Gallery)

Address: Lavrushinskii Pereulok 10, Moscow, RU-119017, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 953 5223

Tsentral'nyi Dom Khudozhnikov (Central House of Artists)

Address: Krymskii Val 10, Moscow, RU-119049, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0495 238 9634