PUSHKIN STATE MUSEUM
OF FINE ARTS
Pushkin Museum is the museum complex, which has The beginning of the construction of the Museum
one of the largest in Russia artistic collections of foreign building is considered to be the 17th (29th century)
art. Today, his collection contains about 700 thousand of August, 1898, when the solemn ceremony of
works of different eras, from ancient Egypt and ancient laying the ground was held.
Greece to the beginning of the 21st century. The On May 31 (June 13), 1912, it was opened to the
collection of French art of the XIX – XX centuries, which public as the Museum of Fine Arts named after
is one of the most famous in the world, can be Emperor Alexander III at the Imperial Moscow
attributed to the exceptional collections of the Museum. University.