10.Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
One of the key Russian museums, the Pushkin National Museum of Fine Arts was the idea of art historian Ivan Tsvetayev, who would subsequently manage it. The museum opened on May 31, 1912, and was then named Emperor Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts.The “Museum of Private Collections” has no exhibits of its own, being fully reserved for exhibitions of artworks from Russian and foreign private collections, organized by the museum’s curators, which remain on display very long here. The Art Gallery is devoted to 19th and 20th-century European and American art and, accordingly, exhibits European and American art from the past three centuries. The famous impressionist collection is also here. Each of the buildings has one must-see exhibition or another on display all the time, for which queues start forming early in the morning. The museum has a lecture hall, for which one-time tickets are available in advance. Music concerts are given at the Pushkin Museum during holidays and festivals.