Historical, Architectural and Art Museum "New Jerusalem"

New Jerusalem Museum

Historical, architectural and art museum "New Jerusalem", until recently located on the territory of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery, in the city of Istra, Moscow region, was founded in 1920. This is one of the oldest and largest state museums of the Moscow region. Over the past decades, the museum has experienced many transformations and upheavals, was almost completely destroyed in 1941 by the German fascist invaders. Despite the unprecedented damage caused to the museum by the occupiers, it was revived, actively developing and confidently looking to the future.

The modern museum "New Jerusalem" stores more than 180 thousand exhibits, including rich collections of church utensils, Russian and foreign painting, porcelain, weapons, furniture from noble estates of the Moscow region, handwritten and rare printed publications, works of decorative and applied art, a rare collection of paintings and graphics of the XX century. In the park area of the museum there is a department of wooden architecture under the open sky. Here guests can get acquainted with the wonderful monuments of the XIX century - peasant hut, chapel, mill.

Currently, the museum is moving to a specially built near the Resurrection Monastery modern building. The opening of the new museum complex is planned in 2014.

Exhibition Building of the New Jerusalem Museum

Behind the walls of the monastery, on the site of the former equestrian courtyard, the Exhibition Building was opened in the late 1980s. This allowed to implement a variety of museum projects and, above all, to demonstrate the most interesting works of painting, graphics, sculpture and applied art, to place historical and documentary exhibitions and exhibitions of photographs. The main purpose of the building is to exhibit the works of masters of the XX and XXI centuries.

At different times, the works of artists of the Volkov dynasty, Boris Chernyshev, Rostislav Barto, Vyacheslav Pavlov, Olga Sokolova, Anatoly Slepyshev, Andrei Grositsky and many other masters of modern fine art were exhibited here.

To the 150th anniversary of the birth of A.P. Chekhov, it was in the exhibition building that the historical and documentary exposition “I returned, my address is Voskresensk ...” was placed.

In recent years, there have been exhibitions "... And I am an artist under him ...", "Meeting", "The Art of Painting", "Is there a dream of imagination", "Pages of the past century", "Favorite motifs". Painting of the XX century from the collection of the Museum “New Jerusalem”, “Alexander Podkolzin”. Painting and Graphics and dozens of others.

Every year, several new exhibitions open in the New Jerusalem exhibition building.

About the Department of Wooden Architecture of the Museum "New Jerusalem"

In the park of the Museum “New Jerusalem” in the 80s of the last century was founded the Museum of wooden architecture in the open air. In the estate of the Kokorin family, built in the early XIX century, a permanent exhibition of peasant household items is opened. Exhibits presented in the hut and seine reproduce the rustic interior of that time. The wooden chapel, recreated from measurements and photographs of the XVIII century, decorates the clearing in front of the gates of the estate. On the banks of the river Istra stands a windmill of the XIX century, which until the 1950s milled flour. Now these unique monuments of wooden architecture are open to visitors.

At the objects of wooden architecture of the Museum “New Jerusalem” were filmed many feature films and TV series: “The Young Years of Stirlitz”, “The Case of Dead Souls”, “Admiral”, “Isaev” and others.

Annually, there are festive mass events and interactive programs: “Day of Slavic Literature and Culture”, “Christmas in New Jerusalem”, “Maslenitsa – wires of the Russian winter in New Jerusalem”, “Russian wedding”, “Moving to a new house”, “Peasant childhood”.