Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow. It was founded on the initiative of Ivan Tsvetaev, a professor at Moscow University, and opened in 1912 in a neoclassical building designed by the architect Roman Klein. It was originally conceived as a teaching museum centred on a collection of plaster casts of classical and Renaissance sculpture.

Over time it grew into a major collection of original works, spanning ancient Egyptian and classical antiquities through European painting, and it is especially noted for its holdings of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.