Bakhrushin Theater Museum

This museum is a delight to theater buffs specially those interested in the past. This museum takes you on a trip down memory lane. Bakhrushin Theater Museum boasts of the most extensive and comprehensive collection of theatrical memorabilia in the city. Bakhrushin Theater Museum was established in 1913.

The museum came to be known as the "Moscow Theatrical Versailles" for its vast and impressive collections of rare editions of plays, original manuscripts, sketches and models of scenery, stage costumes and accessories, theatrical puppets, photographs, portraits, posters, original programs and carefully preserved audio- recordings.

The museum's collection charts the development of theatrical activity in Moscow, encompassing the genres of ballet, opera, dramatic and children's theater and puppetry and has a particularly rare collection of Russian pre- revolutionary and Soviet theater memorabilia.

Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12noon - 7pm, closed Tuesday and the last Monday of the month

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Contact Information

Bakhrushin Theater Museum
Ulitsa Bakhrushina 31/12
113054 Moscow, RU

Tel. +74959534848

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