All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art
127473, Moscow, St. Delegate, 3
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Passage: "Mayakovsky", "Sukharevskaya", "Color Boulevard", then troll. 10, "B," 47 to the east. Puppet Theatre.
The All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art is the only museum in Russia that combines in its collection products of art crafts, folk crafts, factories of the art industry, author's works of decorative and applied art of the peoples of Russia. The collections of the museum cover the historical period from the XVI century to the 1990s. Its collection presents the famous Russian art varnishes, collections of samovars and artistic casting, jewelry of leading Russian companies XIX - nach. XX centuries, porcelain and glass of Imperial and private factories, propaganda porcelain and fabrics of the 1920s, works of leading modern masters of decorative, applied and folk art. In some halls of the exposition, personal collections of porcelain by L.O. Utesov, M.V. Mironova, A.S. Menaker, art metal from the collection of G.A. Kubryakov, the famous collection of Russian, Eastern and European fabrics by N.L. Shabelskaya, donated to the museum by French citizen P.M. Tolstoy-Miloslavsky are shown. One of the features of the museum’s activities is the numerous exhibitions, of which about four hundred and fifty have been held in the halls of the museum and beyond since its foundation. By the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation in August 1999, the museum was transferred to the artistic, library and archival values of the reorganized Research Institute of the Art Industry. In the building along Leontievsky Lane, the Museum of Folk Art is recreated, which is named after its founder, Russian industrialist and philanthropist of the turn of the XIX - XX centuries Sergey Timofeevich Morozov. |
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