Museum of History of Alekseev Moscow City Psychiatric Hospital (Kashchenko)

The museum is not so much Kashchenko, but the entire national psychiatry is located on the territory of the Moscow Psychiatric Clinical Hospital No. 1 named after N.A. Alekseev. The hospital, until 1994, named P.P.Kashchenko.

The hospital was built according to the project of architect L.O. Vasiliev. Architectural style eclectic, brick style of the late nineteenth century. Built at the expense of patrons on the initiative of the mayor N.A. Alekseev.

In the main building, the church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (1994) was restored, and on the territory - a chapel in memory of N. A. Alekseev (1994), a chapel - a monument to patrons was built. It was opened on May 24, 1894.

The funds of the museum store old medical histories, reports, reports, photographs, portraits of hospital staff, pre-revolutionary medical histories and things created by the hands of hospital patients. Also here you can find information about patrons, labor veterans, participants of the Great Patriotic War.

Visiting the museum, you will learn not only the history of the hospital and the formation of national psychiatry. You will be told about the principles of treatment of the mentally ill and about the subtle work of psychiatrists.