Museum at Mkhat

The Museum of Chekhov Moscow Art Academic Theatre - Moscow Art Theatre - was founded in 1923. Initially, the museum was located in the premises of the MHAT. In 1947, the museum was allocated room in the house 3-a. The museum stores documents and materials related to the history of the Moscow Art Theatre and its figures. There is a unique collection of personal belongings of theater figures, sculpture and graphics, painting, stage costumes, models of scenery, documentary materials.

Here you can see theatrical painting and graphics of A. Benois, N. Roerich, M. Dobuzhinsky, B. Kustodiev, A. Benz, A. Golovin. Also, there are exhibits associated with the names of V. Meyerhold, M. Bulgakov, B. Pasternak, F. Chaliapin, K. Stanislavsky, V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, O. Knipper-Chekhova, M. Gorky. Of interest are the artistic restroom of K.S. Stanislavsky, the office of V.I. Nemirovich Danchenko, the artistic restroom of the famous actor O.N. Efremov, located in the premises of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov. There is also an exhibition hall and the so-called "Ephraim foyer".

The MHAT Museum has two branches. This is the Museum-apartment of Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko and the House-Museum of K.S. Stanislavsky.