4 cities · 12 museums
Best Museums in Russia
Independent visitor guides with admission, hours, and collection highlights.
Quick answer
World Museum Guide covers 12 museums in Russia across 4cities — including Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Fabergé Museum, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art — with admission prices, opening hours, and highlights for each. 1 of them offer always-free standard admission.
Planning your visit
How many museums are in Russia?
World Museum Guide covers 12 museums in Russia — 1 with free standard admission.
What are the best museums in Russia?
Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Fabergé Museum, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Kazan Kremlin Museums, Kremlin Armoury.
Are museums in Russia free?
1 museums offer always-free standard admission. Special exhibitions may require separate tickets.
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Saint Petersburg
Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
Erarta opened in 2010 on Vasilyevsky Island in Saint Petersburg as Russia's largest private museum of contemporary art. Founded by businessman Dmitry Khankin and gallerist Marina Varvarina, it set out to document and champion Russian art from the late Soviet period to the present day.
Saint Petersburg
Fabergé Museum
The Fabergé Museum opened in 2013 in the restored Shuvalov Palace on the Fontanka River embankment in Saint Petersburg. Founded by the Link of Times Foundation of Viktor Vekselberg, it holds the world's largest collection of works by Carl Fabergé — including nine Imperial Easter eggs, more than any other museum.
Moscow
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Founded in 2008, Garage moved in 2015 into the renovated Vremena Goda restaurant pavilion in Gorky Park. The transformation was led by Rem Koolhaas's office OMA, preserving the original Soviet mosaic.
Kazan
Kazan Kremlin Museums
The Kazan Kremlin combines tenth-century Tatar foundations with the citadel built by Ivan the Terrible after 1552. It became a museum reserve in 1994 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.
Moscow
Kremlin Armoury
The Kremlin Armoury Chamber traces its origins to the Kremlin's royal workshops of the 1500s, where master craftsmen produced arms, armour, and regalia for the Russian tsars. Konstantin Thon's purpose-built museum opened on the Kremlin grounds in 1851 and remains the repository of the Russian state's most sacred treasures.
Saint Petersburg
Kunstkamera (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography)
Founded by Peter the Great in 1714 and opened to the public in 1727, the Kunstkamera is the oldest museum in Russia. Its baroque blue-and-white tower is a Saint Petersburg landmark.
Moscow
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
The Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM) occupies a converted chocolate factory on Ostozhenka street in central Moscow, one of the city's most prestigious addresses. Founded as the Moscow House of Photography in 1996, it rebranded to reflect its expanded mission in photography, video, and new media.
Moscow
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
The Pushkin Museum opened in 1912 as a teaching collection of plaster casts attached to Moscow University. It became Russia's main museum of foreign art after the redistribution of private collections in 1924.
Saint Petersburg
State Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the largest art museum in the world by gallery space. It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky.
Saint Petersburg
State Russian Museum
Founded by Emperor Nicholas II in 1895 as the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III, the State Russian Museum opened in 1898 in Carlo Rossi's Mikhailovsky Palace on Inzhenernaya Street.
Moscow
State Tretyakov Gallery
Pavel Tretyakov began collecting Russian art in 1856 with the dream of a national gallery; he donated the entire collection to the city of Moscow in 1892.
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
Founded in 1936, the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts split from the Sverdlovsk Local History collection and now occupies two riverfront buildings on the Iset embankment.