Catherine the Great in Russia and Beyond
The exhibition including over 500 objects offers a perspective on how Russian internal and geopolitical transformations, in which Empress Catherine II playe...
The State Russian Museum / The Benois Wing
Branches:
St Michael’s Castle
Stroganov Palace
Contemporary still life in photography demonstrates a variety of trends and approaches: from homages to classic pompous arrangements à la golden age of still life to the m...
Marble Palace
This large-scale exhibition of Sean Scully’s work allows Russian viewers to get acquainted for the first time with the development of the artist’s work from the late 1960s ...
St Michael’s Castle
The exhibition investigates the ways sculptors tackle book as a cultural phenomenon. The viewers will see not only traditional sculpture, but also installations and objects. The exh...
St Michael’s Castle
Vladimir Lyubarov. The Land of Peremilovo. Oil Paintings of Russian Origin
In Lyubarov’s work, subtle psychologism and attention to detail are artfully combined with the ingenuous expressiveness of n...
Benois Wing
Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture
The exhibition includes around 350 ceramic works devoted to the topics of sport and healthy lifestyle and made in the Soviet Union/Russia betwee...
Marble Palace
The exhibition of over 220 works by two prominent German artists accompanied by an exten...
- 12 april 2018 > The State Russian Museum the Halls №№ 226, 232 of St Michael's Castle will be closed.
- 5 april 2018 > Stroganov Palace Jazz evening in the Stroganov Palace
- 22 march 2018 > Stroganov Palace American jazz singer David Post and Kirill Bubyakin Quartet in the Stroganov Palace
Permanent and temporary exhibitions
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. On the 140th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
25 may—20 august 2018
Large-scale retrospective exhibition will present the artist’s milestone works, encompassing his entire career, from well-known masterpieces to forgotten ones, from those held in state museums to those owned by private collectors.
Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture
25 april—30 july 2018
The exhibition includes around 350 ceramic works devoted to the topics of sport and healthy lifestyle and made in the Soviet Union/Russia between the 1920s and the early 1990s by major national porcelain manufacturers.
Permanent exhibition
The collection of the museum comprises works of the representatives of large schools that existed in Soviet times (e.g., Leningrad school of landscape painting of the 1930s - 1950s). The art of socialist realism, showing high artistic merit, clarity of plot, a tendency for "grand style", is reflected in the paintings by A.A. Deyneka, A.N. Samokhvalov, A.A. Plastov, Yu.I. Pimenov and many other Soviet artists who continued to work during the Great Patriotic War and in the second half of the XX century.
5 february 2018
Igor Baskin and D-sound project in the Benois Wing
2 january 2018
New timetable on January 2 in the Benois Wing
Opening hours
| Monday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Mikhailovsky Palace, Benois Wing are open until 8:p.m. | |
| Tuesday | The Museum is closed |
| Wednesday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Sunday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Ticket offices close 30 minutes earlier
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Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
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