Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Pushkin Museum tickets and prices

An adult ticket costs 700 ₽ — per building. The Main Building (Volkhonka 12) and the Gallery of European and American Art (Volkhonka 14) are separate tickets. Children 6 and under go free. The 500 ₽ concession covers ages 7–17, but the 18–24 and 60+ discounts are for Russian citizens only, so as a foreign adult plan on 700 ₽.

The ticket includes most temporary exhibitions in that building; a few headline shows are sold separately. The combined ticket — 1,700 ₽ on weekdays, 1,900 ₽ at weekends — covers both buildings and every exhibition for one day. Two standard tickets come to 1,400 ₽, so the combo only pays off if you also want a separately priced show.

Buy on the museum’s official website: online sales open two weeks ahead, while the ticket desk only sells for the same day. Entry is in 30-minute slots. Foreign Visa and Mastercard cards haven’t worked in Russia since March 2022, so online checkout usually needs a Russian card; at the desk, bring roubles or a Russian card.

Pushkin Museum opening hours

Both buildings keep the same hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 11:00–20:00, Thursday and Friday 11:00–21:00, Saturday 10:00–21:00, Sunday 10:00–20:00. Entry and ticket sales stop an hour before closing. Closed on Mondays.

Holidays shift the schedule — on 4 November 2026, for example, both buildings open 10:00–21:00. Single rooms sometimes close for an evening: Hall 29, with the Michelangelo casts, is off limits during organ concerts. Check the official site before visiting on a Russian public holiday.

The quietest times are weekday openings and the last two hours on Thursday and Friday evenings.

Is the Pushkin Museum worth visiting?

Yes — especially if you want something beyond Russian history. This is Moscow’s museum of world art, and its two best things you won’t find elsewhere in the city: one of the world’s great collections of French Impressionist and early modern painting, and a 1912 hall of full-size plaster casts — Michelangelo’s David included — built as a teaching museum.

Pick the right building. Love Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso? Go to the Gallery at Volkhonka 14 — for many visitors it is the real highlight. Want Egypt, Troy, Rembrandt and the casts? The Main Building. Coming from London, Paris or Florence, you may find the Old Masters modest — the Gallery is then the better use of two hours.

Skip it if you have one day in Moscow and haven’t seen the Kremlin yet, or if it’s Monday. For Russian art specifically, the Tretyakov Gallery is the place.

What to see in the Main Building

• Hall 1, Ancient Egypt — Vladimir Golenishchev’s collection: the sarcophagi of Makhu and Iusankh, a young woman’s mummy and a mummified cat, under papyrus-bundle columns copied from the Temple of Amun at Luxor.
• Hall 3, Troy — 259 objects from the hoards Heinrich Schliemann dug up at Troy, often called Priam’s Treasure: gold diadems, a gold “sauceboat”, stone axes. Taken from Berlin in 1945 and kept secret for decades.
• Hall 15, the Italian Courtyard — a copy of Florence’s Bargello courtyard with a full-size cast of Michelangelo’s David and the equestrian statues of Gattamelata and Colleoni. The museum’s best photo spot.
• Hall 14, the Greek Courtyard — casts of ancient sculpture and temple pediments.
• Halls 9–11 — Flemish and Dutch 17th-century painting, with a room for Rembrandt and his school.
• Upstairs — Italian, Spanish and French painting of the 17th–18th centuries (Poussin, Watteau) and Hall 29, the Michelangelo room.

The Impressionists: Gallery of European and American Art

• Claude Monet, Renoir and Degas — the core of the Shchukin and Morozov collections.
• Paul Cézanne — landscapes and still lifes the Moscow collectors bought while Paris still mocked them.
• Van Gogh and Gauguin, including Gauguin’s Tahitian canvases.
• Matisse and early Picasso, mostly from Sergei Shchukin’s house.
• Rooms of Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism and abstraction for anyone with energy left.

How long do you need?

About two hours per building. That covers Egypt, Troy, the courtyards and the Dutch rooms in the Main Building, or the Impressionists in the Gallery. Both buildings properly is a full day — break for lunch in between.

With children, an hour is usually enough: the mummies in Hall 1 and the giant David in the Italian Courtyard do most of the work. Children under three can come in a pushchair, and the information desk lends a small museum buggy.

Pushkin Museum vs Tretyakov Gallery vs GES-2

For Russian art, the Tretyakov Gallery; for European art and Impressionists, the Pushkin. GES-2 is an easy add-on the same afternoon, just over the bridge.

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How to do it right

• Two hours in the Main Building: Egypt → Troy → the Greek and Italian courtyards → Rembrandt → upstairs to Poussin and Michelangelo.
• A full day: Main Building in the morning, lunch, the Gallery in the afternoon — two single tickets are cheaper than the combo.
• After the museum, cross to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and walk the Patriarshy Bridge to GES-2 — the best Kremlin view in the area.
• For lunch, try Prechistenka, Ostozhenka or the Arbat, 10–15 minutes’ walk.
• A guided tour explains why a museum is full of plaster copies — and which originals they were made from.

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