Published on: 2026-09-01
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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Residents and guests of the capital are invited to visit city museums related to cultural figures. Tickets can be purchased through the “Mosbilet” service.
Visiting Vysotsky
Vladimir Vysotsky State Museum began as an impromptu memorial of flowers, photographs, and autographs that fans brought to To the Taganka Theatre on the day of the poet and actor’s death. Today, the museum is a true cultural center where visitors are transported into the atmosphere of Vysotsky’s era by exploring his personal belongings, letters, playbills, and concert posters.
Here is a holographic image of Vysotsky; in the halls, you can see unique artifacts, photographs, documents, recordings of songs and concerts, interactive installations. And if you turn the joystick handle of the exhibit “Life Line” and select an event of interest, you can immerse yourself in the history and atmosphere of the last century.
Based on photographs and the memories of relatives and close ones, the museum has recreated the living room, kitchen, and office of Vysotsky. The poet’s belongings were moved from the apartment in the house at 28 Malaya Gruzinskaya Street. The museum exhibits original manuscripts of poems, broadcasts recordings of concerts, films featuring the actor, and rehearsals of plays. On the bookshelf, designed by Vysotsky himself, there are many art albums, books on theater history, reference books, and dictionaries. And if you pick up the receiver of the old rotary phone, a hologram will start in the “Kitchen” hall, where Vladimir Vysotsky talks with Stanislav Govorukhin and performs for him the song “Well, the trembling in the hands has disappeared,” written for the film “Wind of Hope.”
In the “Beginning of the Path” hall, there is a blueprint soaked in black ink. In 1955, Vladimir Vysotsky gave in to his family’s persuasion and enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering. But his heart belonged to art. On the night before the drawing exam, tired of the disliked subject, he made a decisive decision and drenched the finished blueprint with ink, saying, “That’s it, I’m not going to this institute anymore!” This rebellious act allowed him to fulfill his dream of entering the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio.
In the “Theater and Cinema” hall, you can see Vysotsky’s stage costumes in which he played his best roles. Among the exhibits are the legendary jacket of Gleb Zheglov from the TV film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” and the original sign “Anti-Banditry Department.”
Among the museum’s most valuable relics are the guitars to whose chords famous songs were born. It features a unique collection of tape recorders from that time, a retro player, and a unique homemade device for recording vinyl on “ribs” (X-ray images) — a symbol of the musical underground era.
Among the exhibits is a gift to Vysotsky from the USSR national hockey team players — a hockey stick autographed by Valeri Kharlamov, who went down in sports history as Legend No. 17, and a blue mailbox. From all corners of the Soviet Union, people wrote piercing, confessional letters to Vysotsky, entrusting him with their most treasured secrets, sharing personal tragedies, and revealing things they were afraid to tell even their closest ones. Today, visitors can read these letters, which have become evidence of the nation’s love for the poet.
In the cozy cinema hall of the museum, films featuring Vladimir Vysotsky, rare documentary programs, and chronicles of the country’s events are shown. On the second floor, exhibitions of contemporary artists are regularly held, and in the concert hall, thematic evenings, reading performances, and creative meetings with actors, musicians, writers, and painters take place.
Address: Vysotskogo Street, building 3, structure 1
The Legend of the Silver Age
A.N. Scriabin Memorial Museum has been located for over 100 years in an old two-story mansion where the outstanding Silver Age composer spent the last years of his life. His apartment, in the Russian modern style, consisting of six rooms, has preserved the authentic atmosphere of the early 20th century. Here are the personal belongings of Alexander Scriabin, his grand pianos, and the famous light circle, and music plays in the original author’s performance. Once, in this apartment, it was heard by Valery Bryusov, Konstantin Balmont, Alexander Tairov, and Alisa Koonen.
The museum offers themed tours, concerts, exhibitions, and educational programs for visitors.
Excursion-concert “Scriabin and Symbolism” will tell about the intertwining of the destinies of the composer and figures of the Silver Age, and how the main trends of the era were reflected in the works of Alexander Scriabin and his contemporaries. Then there will be a concert featuring works by Frédéric Chopin, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
On a special panel, visitors can match their color associations with Scriabin’s system, who had synesthesia: he saw tonalities in color (for example, C major in red). And in the hallway mirror, the composer, who was very meticulous about his appearance, carefully examined himself before every departure from the apartment, especially before a concert. According to legend, if you look into this mirror before some important task or event, everything will go well.
Address: Bolshoy Nikolopeskovsky Lane, building 11, structure 1
The World of Russian Harmonica
Exposition Museum of the Russian Harmonica of Alfred Mirek On 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street is dedicated to the history of reed instruments of the 19th–20th centuries in Russia and abroad. Here you can see a collection of musical instruments, posters, photographs, documents, recordings, educational and archival materials that for 55 years were collected, studied, and systematized by Doctor of Art Studies, Professor Alfred Mirek. Visitors can trace the development path of the Russian harmonica — from simple mid-19th century models to the most complex concert accordions and bayans of the 20th century.
You can purchase tickets to the capital’s museums without markups and commission on the “Mosbilet” service.
“Mosbilet” — the official service on the mos.ru portal, through which you can purchase tickets to theaters, museums, concert halls, and other institutions subordinate to the Moscow Department of Culture, without commission or markups. The service page features announcements of the most anticipated events, season premieres, activities within city festivals, exhibitions, performances, and concerts that will take place in the upcoming weekend.
You can buy a ticket directly in the service. For events where personal data is required to purchase a ticket, you do not need to enter the last name, first name, patronymic, and visitor information: if the user has a standard or full account, it is enough to leave the default document selection as Mos ID. Required fields must be filled in manually if the account is simplified. When arranging tickets for young guests through the service, all data must be entered only by the accompanying adult. For children under 14 years old, only last name, first name, patronymic, and date of birth can be indicated, and showing the child’s document when attending cultural events is not necessary.
In addition, authorized users will be able to open QR codes in the mobile applications “My Moscow”, “My id”, and “Moscow State Services”.
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