The 10 Best Museums in Sokolniki, Central Russia

The museum’s collection includes the following sections: a collection of traditional Russian gusli (wing and lyre shaped, bell harps, and more), and Chinese guqins brought from their country of birth; a carpenter shop offering gusli making workshops; a workshop and musical training venue.

There are expositions dedicated to the art of fine writing in some of the largest fine arts museums of the world, but the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy is the only museum dedicated entirely to this art form. In the museum, you find yourself in a wondrous world consisting of beautiful symbols, perfect lines, and absolute harmony. Every variety of calligraphy creates its own specific mood: - Arabic ornamental script, the basis of Muslim calligraphy; - European calligraphy, tracing its roots to antiquity; - The ancient art of Chinese calligraphy; - The laconic Japanese calligraphy - Slavic writing close to the heart of every Russian person.

A unique collection of this museum consists of various items of the Soviet Union. Buying a "ticket in the USSR", you get the opportunity to move around in the days of her youth, childhood, or simply remember the pleasant moments of the past. The museum does not assess the political side or the other of the USSR, but with the things represented in it, grew more than one generation of Soviet people

In the multimedia gallery "Kvadrats" you can see on the huge screens of the exhibition about Space, great people such as Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. To see Russian history in an unusual and fascinating multimedia format. The innovative gallery will help children and adults to look with different eyes, and on the other hand at things that used to be boring and monotonous.