Moscow · Museums · Society
In 2025, over 22 million people visited museums and exhibitions under the Moscow Department of Culture. That is 30% more than the year before. The most popular were the Museum of Moscow, the museum-reserves “Tsaritsyno”, “Ostankino and Kuskovo”, “Kolomenskoye — Izmailovo”, and the Darwin Museum.
Society · Pop Culture · Humour
Minayev five minutes later:
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Architecture · Society
The tallest unoccupied building in the world is the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. It is also known as the "Hotel of Doom". Construction of the hotel began in 1987, but was suspended in 1992 owing to the economic difficulties that beset the country after the collapse
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Architecture · Books · Moscow · Museums
The "Moscow" Vitruvius from the Pushkin Museum library can be seen in Gallery 7 of the main building. The pages will be turned from time to time; I was promised that this would happen every day. So the original of the book, published in a facsimile copy, can
Art · Observations · People
Every human being, every member of the human family, bears responsibility for the peace of the whole world. No one has the right to cast off the lofty and beautiful duty of creating good. No one has the right to burn Joan of Arc. Who has been given the right
Archive · Architecture · Books · Moscow · Museums · Science
The Pushkin Museum has summed up the results of the "Moscow Vitruvius" project. At the centre of attention of art historians, bibliographers, historians, palaeographers and even graphologists was a rare folio: an edition of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's treatise Ten Books on Architecture, printed in Venice in
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Museums
Where to go: a selection of Moscow exhibitions worth visiting this week. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "Krasnopevtsev. The Balance of the Unequal" at the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art on Maroseika, until 1 February 📌 The exhibition "New Gothic" at the HSE ART GALLERY in the
Geography · Science · Society
For the past several decades this has been one of the key and most contentious themes of the Arctic dialogue. And now, in connection with the discussions about Greenland, the ridge that divides the Eurasian and Amerasian parts of the Arctic Ocean basin is again being talked about. The limits
Art · Books
You called my likeness out of stone, You breathed God's fire into it. My double, He is alien to me, other and yet alike. Here he stands, clear and stern, And his featurelessness frightens me: Some god Revealed in the primordial stone. Literal translation Maximilian Voloshin, 1911
Archive · Architecture · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. To mark the centenary, the exhibition Paris 1925 has opened at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in the Trocadéro, in