This is a list of museums in Russia. It includes details of museums within Crimean peninsula as Russia annexed the territory in 2014 and now administers it as two of its federal subjects, while no official transfer of property was agreed between Russia and Ukraine and Crimean peninsula is considered to be an integral part of that country under temporary occupation.

By federal subject

Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast (russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, ''Arkhangelskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land ...

Malye Korely Malye Korely (russian: Малые Корелы) is a village in Primorsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, in the north of Russia. The main sight of the village is an open-air museum, featuring the traditional wooden architecture of Arkhangelsk area ...

: Open-air museum, featuring the traditional wooden architecture of the Arkhangelsk area. * Solovetsky Monastery contains a historical and architectural museum.

Astrakhan Oblast Astrakhan Oblast (russian: Астраха́нская о́бласть, ''Astrakhanskaya oblast'', , ''Astrakhan oblysy'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southern Russia. Its administrative center ...

* Astrakhan Kremlin is a museum that exhibits the lifestyle of the Astrakhan military garrison and is part of the Astrakhan State United Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve.

Buryatia Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia (russian: Республика Бурятия, r=Respublika Buryatiya, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə bʊˈrʲætʲɪjə; bua, Буряад Улас, Buryaad Ulas, , mn, Буриад Улс, Buriad Uls), is ...

Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum The Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum is an outdoor museum, located in the village Upper Berezovka, eight kilometres northeast of Ulan-Ude, Buryatia. Overview The museum opened on July 6, 1973, and is one of the largest open air museums in Russia ...

Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...

* White House, Kyshtym houses a museum with a choice array of mineral exhibits.

Chuvashia Chuvashia (russian: Чувашия; cv, Чӑваш Ен), officially the Chuvash Republic — Chuvasia,; cv, Чӑваш Республики — Чӑваш Ен is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuv ...

Alikovo District Literary and Local Lore Museum The Alikovo Regional Literary and Local Lore Museum is a historical and literary Museum of The Alikovsky District of the Chuvash Republic. History Many work in the opening of the Museum was invested by Guriy Konstantinovich Terentev, Valerian St ...

* Chuvash National Museum: The largest repository of natural, historical, cultural and theological artefacts of the Chuvash people and other ethnic groups.

Crimea

* Aivazovsky National Art Gallery *

Feodosia Money Museum The Feodosia Museum of Money (russian: Феодосийский музей денег) is a currency museum in Feodosia, Crimea. It was established on July 15, 2003. The opening ceremony took place on August 22, 2003. The activities of the Feod ...

* Livadia Palace: Former summer retreat of the last Russian

tsar Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East Slavs, East and South Slavs, South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''Caesar (title), caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" i ...

Nicholas II Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Pola ...

, today houses a museum. *

Museum of Vera Mukhina The Museum of Vera Mukhina is a historical and art museum in Feodosiya, Crimea, dedicated to the childhood, youth and artwork of sculptor Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina. History The folk museum of sculptor Vera Mukhina, or the Museum complex ...

is a historical and art museum in Feodosia, dedicated to the childhood, youth and artwork of sculptor Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina. *

Naval museum complex Balaklava Naval museum complex Balaklava ( uk, Морський музейний комплекс "Балаклава", Russian: Музей холодной войны, "The Cold War Museum", designation K-825) is an underground submarine base in Balak ...

is an underground

submarine A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely op ...

base in Balaklava, Crimea, converted into a naval museum. * Simferopol Art Museum * Vorontsov Palace (Alupka) * White Dacha is the house that

Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career ...

had built in Yalta and in which he wrote some of his greatest work. It is now a writer's house museum.

Kaliningrad Oblast

* Kaliningrad Amber Museum is devoted to housing and displaying amber artworks.

Kaluga Oblast

* Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics

Karelia Karelia ( Karelian and fi, Karjala, ; rus, Каре́лия, links=y, r=Karélija, p=kɐˈrʲelʲɪjə, historically ''Korjela''; sv, Karelen), the land of the Karelian people, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for ...

* Kizhi Pogost

Kemerovo Oblast

* Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum

Leningrad Oblast Leningrad Oblast ( rus, Ленинградская область, Leningradskaya oblast’, lʲɪnʲɪnˈgratskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ, , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It was established on 1 August 1927, a ...

* Gatchina Palace *

Mon Repos (Vyborg) Mon Repos or Monrepos (russian: Монрепо́, from the French for "my rest") is an extensive English landscape park in the northern part of the rocky island of Linnasaari (Tverdysh, Slottsholmen) outside Vyborg, Russia. The park lies along ...

* Priory Palace * Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate * Vyborg Castle

Mordovia

Mordovian Erzia Museum of Visual Arts The Mordovian Republican Museum of Visual Arts Named after S.D. Erzya () is a museum in the city of Saransk in the Mordovian Republic. The Erzya Mordovian Museum of Visual Arts holds the world's largest collection of more than 200 works done by ...

Moscow

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...

* Moscow Kremlin Museums *

Abramtsevo Colony Abramtsevo (russian: Абра́мцево) is a former country estate and now museum-reserve located north of Moscow, in the proximity of Khotkovo, that became a centre for the Slavophile movement and an artists' colony in the 19th century. The ...

is a center for the

Slavophile Slavophilia (russian: Славянофильство) was an intellectual movement originating from the 19th century that wanted the Russian Empire to be developed on the basis of values and institutions derived from Russia's early history. Slavoph ...

movement and artistic activity in the 19th century. *

Central Air Force Museum The Central Air Force Museum (russian: Центральный музей Военно-воздушных сил РФ) is an aviation museum in Monino, Moscow Oblast, Russia. A branch of the Central Armed Forces Museum, it is one of the world's la ...

* Gorki Leninskiye * Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery *

Kolomenskoye Kolomenskoye (russian: Коло́менское) is a former royal estate situated several kilometers to the southeast of the city center of Moscow, Russia, on the ancient road leading to the town of Kolomna (hence the name). The 390 hectare ...

is a former royal estate * Kubinka Tank Museum * Melikhovo is a writer's house museum in the former country estate of the Russian playwright and writer

. * Muranovo is a state museum dedicated to the life of Russian poet and diplomat

Fyodor Tyutchev Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev ( rus, Фёдор Ива́нович Тю́тчев, r=Fyódor Ivánovič Tyútčev, links=1, p=ˈfʲɵdər ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈtʲʉt͡ɕːɪf; Pre-Reform orthography: ; – ) was a Russian poet and diplomat. ...

New Jerusalem Monastery The Resurrection Monastery (russian: Воскресенский монастырь, ''Voskresensky Monastery'') or New Jerusalem Monastery (russian: Новоиерусалимский монастырь, ''Novoiyerusalimsky Monastery'') is a major ...

Tchaikovsky House-Museum (Klin) The Tchaikovsky House-Museum was the country home in Klin, 85 kilometers northwest of Moscow where Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky lived from May 1892 until his death in 1893. His last major work, the 6th Symphony, was written there. The house is now ...

* Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius * Ugresha Monastery

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

* Pechersky Ascension Monastery

Novgorod Oblast

* Borovichi Museum * Tyosovo Railway Museum

Novosibirsk Oblast

Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk The Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk (Russian language, Russian: Новосибирский музей железнодорожной техники, ''Nowosibirski musei schelesnodoroschnoi techniki'') is a railway museum in Novosibirs ...

Penza Oblast

The Museum of One Painting named after G. V. Myasnikov The Museum of One Painting named after G. V. Myasnikov is a state museum, located in Penza, Russia. It is a unique museum, which does not have analogies anywhere in the world. Its peculiarity is that it does not have a permanent exposition and ...

* Tarkhany

Perm Krai

* Khokhlovka Architectural and ethnographic museum * Perm Museum of Contemporary Art *

Perm Regional Museum The Perm Regional Museum, also known as the Perm Museum of Local Lore, is a museum located in Perm, Perm Krai, Russia. Founded in 1890, the museum is the oldest and largest museum in Perm. The museum maintains a number of permanent and temporary ...

Pskov Oblast Pskov Oblast (russian: Пско́вская о́бласть, ') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the west of the country. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

* Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve

Rostov Oblast Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblast, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast has an area of and a populati ...

* Alferaki Palace, Museum of Local Lore and History * Bataysk Museum of History *

Birth house of Anton Chekhov The birthplace of Anton Chekhov is the place in Taganrog, Russia, where the famous writer Anton Chekhov was born. It is now a writer's house museum. The outbuilding on the territory of a property on Chekhov Street (formerly Kupecheskaya Street, ...

Chekhov Gymnasium The Chekhov Gymnasium in Taganrog on Ulitsa Oktyabrskaya 9 (formerly Gymnasicheskaya Street) is the oldest gymnasium in the South of Russia. Playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov spent 11 years in the school, which was later named af ...

: Literary Museum named after

* Chekhov Library * Chekhov Shop *

Taganrog City Architectural Development Museum Taganrog Museum of Architecture and Urbanism is a museum in the city of Taganrog, Russia. The building was designed by the architect Fyodor Schechtel's studio. The building The Taganrog Museum of Architecture and Urbanism is located in the former ...

Taganrog military museum Taganrog Military Museum is the first private military museum in the Russian city of Taganrog. Its exhibits includes displays of military vehicles and weapons. Museum history The start of museum exhibition creation refers to May 9, 2004, when the ...

Taganrog Museum of Art Taganrog Museum of Art (russian: Таганрогский художественный музей) was officially inaugurated in 1968, but the basis of the museum collection was formed by the end of the 19th century, when the art department of the ...

Ryazan Oblast

Khan's Mosque Khan's Mosque in Kasimov is the oldest mosque in Central Russia. It dates from the Qasim Khanate of the 15th and 16th centuries. According to Kadir Ali, the brick mosque was built by Shahghali at some point in the mid-16th century. Others believ ...

Saint Petersburg

Samara Oblast

AvtoVAZ Technical Museum The AvtoVAZ Technical Museum is a museum in the Russian city of Tolyatti. The formal name is now K.G. Sakharov History of Technology Park Complex (Парковый комплекс истории техники имени К. Г. Сахарова) ...

Saratov Oblast Saratov Oblast (russian: Сара́товская о́бласть, ''Saratovskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the types of ...

* Radishchev Art Museum

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...

Irbit State Motorcycle Museum The Irbit State Motorcycle Museum was created as a State Museum of the Russian Federation to protect the former IMZ Factory Museum from sale and dispersal. The museum was officially opened on June 25, 2004, as the Irbit Motorcycle Museum. The keys ...

: Museum containing an extensive collection of production, racing and prototype bikes from the IMZ-Ural Factory as well as many foreign models from a wide range of manufacturers. The collection is unique in its display of the development of the Russian heavy motorcycle. * Irbit State Museum of Fine Art: Museum of Fine Art contains some important works including etchings by famous European artists. *

Nevyansk Icon Museum The Nevyansk Icon Museum in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a private museum of icons in Russia. More than 300 Nevyansk icons of the 18th to the 20th centuries are on display there. Entrance is free for everyone. The museum was opened in 1999 by Yevgeny ...

: Private museum of icons in Russia. More than 300 Nevyansk icons of the 18th to the 20th centuries are on display there. *

The Nizhny Tagil Museum of Regional History The Nizhny Tagil Museum of Regional History is the oldest museum in Nizhny Tagil. It is located in the centre of the city, near the Tagil pond, at . The museum belongs to the Nizhny Tagil Museum Reserve "". Furthermore, it is located in the build ...

Ural State Mining University Ural State Mining University (russian: Уральский государственный горный университет) is situated in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. It was founded in 1914. In 1917 Nicholas II signed an order titled "On ...

Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore The Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore (russian: Свердловский областной краеведческий музей) (abbreviated as SOCM) is a museum in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The museum is one of the olde ...

UMMC Museum of Military and Automotive Equipment The UMMC Museum Complex (russian: Музейный комплекс УГМК), fully the UMMC Museum Complex of Military and Civil Equipment (russian: Музейный комплекс УГМК военной и гражданской техник ...

Tambov Oblast

* Ivanovka estate: Museum commemorating the life and works of the Russian composer

Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...

Tatarstan

* Kazan Kremlin

Tula Oblast

* Kulikovo Field: Museum dedicated to the Battle of Kulikovo took place on September 8, 1380. * Polenovo: Museum Estate of Russian landscape painter Vasily Polenov. * Yasnaya Polyana: Writer's house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy.

Tyumen Oblast

* Governor's Mansion (Tobolsk, Russia)

Udmurtia

* Tchaikovsky Museum (Votkinsk)

Vladimir Oblast

Cathedral of Saint Demetrius The Cathedral of Saint Demetrius (Russian language, Russian Дмитриевский собор) is a cathedral in the ancient Russian city of Vladimir (city), Vladimir. It was finished in 1197 during the reign of the Grand Prince Vsevolod the Big ...

Cathedral of the Nativity in Suzdal The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Suzdal, Russia, is a World Heritage Site. It is one of the eight White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal and one of the most complex monuments of Russian medieval architecture. It was originally con ...

* Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir *

Golden Gate (Vladimir) The Golden Gate of Vladimir (russian: Zolotye Vorota, Золотые ворота), constructed between 1158 and 1164, is the only (albeit partially) preserved ancient Russian city gate. A museum inside focuses on the history of the Mongol inv ...

: Museum inside focuses on the history of the Mongol invasion of Russia in the 13th century. * Monastery of Saint Euthymius * Museum of Chocolate (Pokrov): Museum displays the entire history of chocolate for over 4,000 years and tells about the foundation of the Stollwerck factory launched in Pokrov in 1997. *

Suzdal Kremlin The Suzdal Kremlin (Russian: Суздальский кремль) is the oldest part of the Russian city of Suzdal, dating from the 10th century. Like other Russian Kremlins, it was originally a fortress or citadel and was the religious and admin ...

Vladivostok

*Arsenyev Regional Museum *Fort No.7 *Memorial S-56 Submarine *Military and History Museum of the Pacific Fleet *Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography *Museum of Automotive Antiques *Museum of the Institute of Sea Biology *Nostalgia Art Gallery *Paleo Village Museum *Primorye State Picture Gallery *Sukhanov’s House Museum *The Voroshilov Battery Museum *Vladivostok Fortress Museum *ZARYA Contemporary Art Museum *Zoological Museum

Volgograd Oblast Volgograd Oblast (russian: Волгогра́дская о́бласть, ''Volgogradskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the Volga region, Volga region of Southern Russia. Its adminis ...

* Old Sarepta Museum of History and Ethnography

Vologda Oblast

* Ferapontov Monastery * Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery *

Museum of Diplomatic Corps The Museum of Diplomatic Corps (russian: Музей дипломатического корпуса) was a private historical museum located in Russian city Vologda. It was situated in a wooden manor that belonged to a noble Pavel Puzan-Puzyrevsk ...

Yaroslavl Oblast

* Myshkin National Ethnographic Museum: Known as the Mouse Museum for its collection of 2,000 mouse-related items from all over the globe.