Museum of Moscow

Museum of Moscow is one of the oldest museums of the city of Moscow, Russia. Its collection was established on the initiative of Russian scientific community in 1896. The Moscow City Duma gave it a large collection of exhibits. In the 20th century the museum several times changed its name and location. In 1921 the museum was called Moscow Municipal Museum and was located in Sukharev Tower. In 1940 was renamed the Museum of History and Reconstruction of Moscow. In 1987 the museum got its present name.nThe museum acquired more than one million articles depicting life in the city throughout its history, from Moscow’s ancient beginnings to the present day.