Museums on the Arbat are very different. Here is the Pushkin Museum-Apartment, and the Museum of Corporal Punishment, as well as very unusual exhibitions and labyrinths that form an entire entertainment complex. Walking along this beautiful street of Moscow, everyone will be able to find something interesting for themselves. Let us and we will walk along the Arbat and look into the most unusual places. Let and only virtually.
Museums on Arbat Old
We will begin our walk with the Pushkin Museum-Apartment. This two-story blue building stands out from its neighbors. The famous poet brought his young wife Natalya Nikolaevna here after the wedding. Here, the newlyweds lived the first happy months together. They gave balls and gathered friends and acquaintances under their roof until in 1831 they had to move. The museum at 53 Arbat Street was opened on the day of the celebration of the 155th anniversary of the Pushkin’s wedding.
Another interesting exhibition is located at Arbat Street, house 17. This is the aquarium museum. All other museums on the Arbat will not be able to compare with this in the number of living exhibits - fish, turtles, other unusual and vibrant creations. The exhibition is located on two levels. The idea of the creators is that going down to the floor below, the visitor gets into the underwater world. In addition to aquariums with their inhabitants, here you can also see equipment of divers from different eras and learn more about the history of aquariums.
The Museum of the History of Corporal Punishment, by the way, belongs to the same owner as the Museum of Aquarium. And his exposition was compiled just as professionally, competently. Exhibits - torture devices and tools for executions, executioner's guns, as well as portraits of representatives of the mournful profession. This exhibition is impressive and scary at the same time, but its purpose is not in this. She simply opens before the audience the next page of human history, even if it remains unsightly and very sad.
Museums on Novy Arbat
We begin our walk along this street with an exhibition of erotic art. It is located at Novy Arbat, building 15. Together with several other interesting exhibitions, this forms a real entertainment complex. Of course, to come here, as in other museums on the Arbat, with children will not work, because for visitors there is a restriction of 18+. The exhibits are various erotic art items brought from different countries, but many of them are filled with national Russian color. The museum contains paintings, photographs, figurines. Nearby is the entrance to the only sex shop in Russia working on the principle of a supermarket. This means that you will not meet a consultant here, because no one will embarrass the buyer.
Near the Museum of Love, at the same address, is the Museum of Death. His exhibits are also brought from different countries. For example, here you can admire the collection of skulls and funeral urns. And the museum has collected a large number of unusual coffins of various shapes. There is a coffin-bottle, a coffin-beetle, the last shelter in the form of a syringe, a cigarette, a pack of money and a remote control from the TV. The notorious coffin on wheels from a children's horror story, even if it existed in reality, could hardly impress after what was seen in this museum.
The Museum of the USSR is also interesting. Here are the brightest objects of the Soviet era, such that surrounded almost every inhabitant of the country in everyday life. These are telephones, and carpets, and dishes, and children's toys. Soviet slot machines and famous soda machines are also represented here. In addition, the museum can be photographed with the leaders - Lenin and Stalin.
Other exhibitions and interesting places
What other museums on the Arbat can be visited? If you are still going to take a walk here in reality, be sure to visit the following exhibitions:
- the house-museum of Marina Tsvetaeva;
- Scriabin Museum ;
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art ;
- giant's house;
- Museum of Optical Illusions;
- Moscow Museum of Perfumery.
Conclusion
Museums are the wealth of the Arbat. You can talk about them for a long time and a lot, but it's better to visit them and see everything with your own eyes. Inspect the exposition of the memorial apartment of the Pushkin couple and admire the furniture, the decoration of rooms and portraits of a bygone era. Come to the entertainment complex on New Arbat and visit the museums of death and erotic art. Museums in Moscow on the Arbat are able to interest their visitors and give them vivid emotions for a long time.