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The 10 Best Specialty Museums in Sokolniki, Central Russia
The political, scientific, historical, architectural and business center of Russia, Moscow displays the country's contrasts at their most extreme. The ancient and modern are juxtaposed side by side in this city of 10 million. Catch a metro from one of the ornate stations to see Red Square, the Kremlin, the nine domes of St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum, the KGB Museum and other symbols of Moscow's great and terrible past, then lighten up and shop Boulevard Ring or people watch in Pushkin Square.
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1. Museum of Russian Gusli and Chinese Guqin
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5.0 based on 18 reviews
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.
2. The World Calligraphy Museum
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4.5 based on 49 reviews
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.
3. Ice Museum
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4.5 based on 9 reviews
4. Patriarchal Chambers
5. Museum Fabrika Yolochnykh Igrushek
6. Zolotaya Tsaritsyna Palata
7. Museum of Cycling History
8. Sokolniki and Fleet Museum
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
9. Teremna Palace
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4.5 based on 4 reviews
10. Andrei Mityayev's Museum of the History of Cycling
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4.0 based on 1 reviews
