Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve (Kolomenskoye-Izmailovo-Lefortovo-Liublino)

The Moscow State Integrated Art and Historical, Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve was created in 2005 as a successor and expansion of Kolomenskoye State Museum-Reserve, one of the best-known Moscow museums. The newly founded museum comprises four most interesting cultural, historical and natural sites within Moscow boundaries, namely:

• Kolomenskoye, an ancient residence of Moscow Grand Princes and Russian Tsars that includes a complex of unique architectural monuments of XVI-XVIII centuries – the Tsar’s Courtyard;
• Izmailovo, another former royal residence that now boasts of architectural sites dating back from XVII to XIX centuries;
• part of Lefortovo imperial park and palace (XVIII century) that served as prototype for the royal country residences around Saint-Petersburg;
• a nobleman’s estate and manor house (or Palace) at Liublino created in early XIX century.

With a total area about 329 hectares the museum disposes of 32 cultural heritage sites of federal status.

The museum’s architectural gem and its symbol is the Church of the Ascension built in 1532 and included into UNESCO World Heritage List (along with the Red Square complex and the Novodevichy Convent). Among the key monuments we would also like to mention the wooden Palace of Tsar Alexey (Alexis) Mikhailovich Romanov - a reconstruction of a notable XVII century Russian architecture example and the House of Tsar Peter I - the only memorial house-museum of the first Russian Emperor located in Moscow.

In 2013, an exact copy of the House of Peter I in Zaandam, the Netherlands (Czar Pieterhuisje), where the great Russian monarch stayed in 1697 during his secret mission to Europe (the Grand Embassy), was granted to our museum as part of the Netherlands-Russia bilateral year. Now the copy houses an interactive exposition devoted to the important diplomatic voyage of the great reformer, his every-day life and personality.

The museum’s collection counts above 170,000 items and comprises numerous sections, namely icons and secular painting, Russian glazed tiles, white stone, decorative and applied arts, archaeology, numismatics, ethnography and ethnology, manuscript and old printed books, graphics, documents, and weapons.

Free entry to all the museum territories