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On the theme of Moscow museums

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Presentation
ON THE THEME OF MOSCOW MUSEUMS

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Armouries
This treasure-museum of the cultural heritage of Russia is known all over the
world. The Armory Chamber is one of the oldest Russian museums, founded in
1806. Here are collections of weapons, armor, gold and silver utensils,
decorated with precious stones.

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Vintage car
museum
This is the largest museum of vintage cars in the capital. It presents an impressive
collection of 3,000 thousand cars, motorcycles, bicycles, related paraphernalia.

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Mosfilm
museum
The museum will acquaint visitors with sketches of unique scenery used in the
filming of various films, with the secrets of creating visual effects of turning into
a movie, with the skill of applying unusual actor's makeup.

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Tretyakov
Gallery
The eminent art museum, founded in the middle of the 19th century by the
merchant P. Tretyakov, presents one of the largest and most significant world
collections of Russian fine art, sculpture and graphics. This museum has more
than 100 thousand works of art.

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Paleontological
Museum
The Paleontological Museum in Moscow is one of the largest in the world. In it
you can learn a lot about the early stages of life on earth. About the first
inhabitants on earth. And consider in detail the skeletons of prehistoric
animals.

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Memorial Museum
of Cosmonautics
The famous monument to the "Conquerors of Space" at VDNKh. It houses the
Museum of Cosmonautics, created for the 20th anniversary of the flight of the
first man into space. Here you can find the best examples of rocket and
space technology, personal belongings of astronauts and famous designers.

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Pushkin State
Museum of
Fine Arts
The modern Pushkin Museum, recognized as one of the best in Europe, has the
largest collection of paintings by world-class foreign and Russian artists, as well
as sculptors and graphic artists. The Pushkin Museum houses the treasure of
ancient Troy, which for a long time was considered irretrievably lost. Halls have
been opened since 2006, where masterpieces of innovative art from different
directions are exhibited.

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Museum of the
History of Money
Here you can see the very first coins in Rus'. Museum visitors can hold the world's
largest coin in their hands, look at the money, the weight of which exceeds a ton.
And here you can also take a photo against the background of a tower built of a
million Russian rubles, find out how the mint worked before and how it works now,
and even use printing press to issue your own souvenir banknote.
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