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Thursday, 26.07.2007
Pushkin Museum – Egyptian tombs, Rembrand uand Cezanne
Moscow’s Pushkin Museum is, after Petersburg’s Hermitage, the most important Russian collection for international art, ranging from Ancient Egypt to the start of the 20th century. The museum, of which a large part of the collection stems from the private collections of nobles expropriated after the Revolution, is especially famous for its Impressionists and Post-impressionists.
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Many famous paintings by Monet, Gaugin, Cezanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso und Matisse hang in the Pushkin Museum. There is also a rich collection of Flemish oils, including six Rembrand portraits.
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Ul. Volchonka 12
Nearest metro station: Kropotkinskaya
Opening hours: daily except Mondays 10am – 7pm
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The exhibition also features numerous sculptures, including a copy of Michelangelo’s David.
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In the 1990s, the curators of the Pushkin Museum publicly acknowledged for the first time that the museum’s stacks contained the Troy collection of Heinrich Schliemann, long believed lost, but in fact brought to Moscow from Berlin after the war. The "Treasures of Troy" are now also part of the exhibition.
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