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State Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin
The State Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin used to be a deposit of state treasury. The building is an architectural monument of the middle of the XIX century decorated with 58 marble bas-reliefs and portraits of Russian tsars and great princes. The collections of the Armoury Chamber include objects of decorative and applied art of Russia, Western Europe and the Orient.
The Armoury Chamber, a treasure-house, is a part of the Grand Kremlin Palace’s complex. It is situated in the building constructed in 1851 by architect Konstantin Ton. The museum collections were based on the precious items that had been preserved for centuries in the tsars’ treasury and the Patriarch’s vestry. Some of the exhibits were made in the Kremlin’s workshops, others were accepted as ambassadorial gifts. The museum was named after one of the oldest Kremlin’s treasury stores.
The Armoury Chamber preserves ancient state regalia, ceremonial tsar’s vestments and coronation dress, vestments of the Russian Orthodox Church’es hierarchs, the largest collection of gold and silverware by Russian craftsmen, West European artistic silver, ceremonial weapons and arms, carriages, horse ceremonial harness.
The State Armoury presents more than four thousands items of applied art of Russia, European and Eastern countries of IV-early XX centuries. The highest artistic level and particular historical and cultural value of the exhibits have made the State Armoury of the Moscow Kremlin a world-wide known museum.
Layout of the Museum
Hall 1. Russian gold and silverware of the XIIth to early XVIIth century
Hall 2. Russian gold and silverware of the XVIIth to early XXth century
Hall 3. European and Oriental ceremonial weapons of the XVth to XIXth century
Hall 4. Russian arms of the XIIth to early XIXth century
Hall 5. West-European Silver of the XIIIth to XIXth centuries
Hall 6. Precious textiles, pictorial and ornamental embroidery of the XIVth to XVIIIth century. Russian secular dress of the XVIth to early XXth century
Hall 7. Ancient state regalia and ceremonial objects of the XIIIth to the XVIIIth century
Hall 8. Ceremonial horse harness of the XVIth to XVIIIth centuries
Hall 9. Royal carriages of the XVIth to XVIIIth century
Essential Information for Visitors
►Address and Contact Details
Kremlin, Sobornaya pl.
Tel. (095) 202-37-76, 921-47-20, 202-92-23
info@mcmtravel.ru
Nearest metro station: Alexandrovskiy Sad
►Opening Hours
Open: excursions at: 10.00, 12.00, 14.30, 16.30, except Thursdays.
►Admission Prices
For foreigners 170-350R
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