March Event Lineup
The freezing cold of winter is coming to an end, nature is slowly waking up from its slumber, and the weather is getting better every day. We encourage you to come out of your ‘winter hibernation’ by attending some exciting FREE events in March. Check out the list below for more information.
Places to visit any day
- Note: to get a free ticket, bring your Student ID!
Museum of Moscow
The Museum of Moscow is one of the oldest museums of the city. Its collection was established on the initiative of the Russian scientific community in 1896.The museum acquired more than one million articles depicting life in the city. There are archaeological finds, ancient tools, jewellery, bronze and stone items from the most ancient period of Moscow history. The museum holds original costumes, accessories, furniture and other everyday objects produced by talented Russian and European masters.
Address: 2 Zubovsky boulevard, Moscow
Working hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 am–9 pm
Metro station: Park Kultury
Moscow Zoo, located in the heart of Russia’s capital city, is not just your ordinary zoo. It is a fascinating destination that offers visitors a chance to explore and marvel at the wonders of the animal kingdom. With a rich history dating back to the late 18th century, Moscow Zoo has become one of the oldest and most renowned zoos in the world. Sprawling across 21.5 hectares of land, the zoo provides ample space for both the animals and visitors to explore and enjoy. The zoo plays a vital role in conservation efforts, particularly for endangered species. It participates in international breeding programmes to ensure the survival and genetic diversity of endangered animals.
Address: 1 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, Moscow
Working hours: Everyday, 9 am–5 pm *Ticket office is open till 4 pm
Metro stations: Krasnopresnenskaya, Barrikadnaya
Moscow layout
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The Moscow Layout pavilion is a unique exhibition centre where you can enjoy an exact scale-down replica of the Russian capital. It features 23,000 miniature buildings. Visitors can examine the model from all sides and learn a lot of interesting details about the sights of Moscow. In addition, there are interactive programmes and light shows that simulate day and night illumination.
Address: 119 Prospekt Mira, VDNKh Park, Sirenevaya alleya, ‘Maket Moskvy’ pavilion, Moscow
Working hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am–8 pm
Metro stations: VDNKh, Botanicheskiy Sad
‘Happy End Trailer’ Exhibition
The first personal exhibition of Eva Arakcheeva's paintings. Free for everyone.
Unnoticeably, we find ourselves drawn deep into and beyond the canvases, into galleries of associations. This is how we can describe the work of conceptual painting - it serves as an entry point to an intellectual journey that opens up new perspectives on the most important categories: the visible, the represented, the apparent and the imagined.
Address: Winzavod, 4th Syromyatnichesky Lane 1/8, Building 6, Moscow
Working hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12 pm–8 pm *Open till April, 12
Metro stations: Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya
Moscow Museum Week
- Note: the programme allows you to visit the listed expositions free of charge for seven days according to the schedule. Please get free tickets online beforehand, as demand is high.
March, 11
Panorama Museum ‘Battle of Borodino’
Panorama Museum ‘Battle of Borodino’ is a historical museum in Moscow dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812. The museum's collection includes a panorama of the Battle of Borodino by the artist Franz Roubaud, collections of paintings, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied arts and rare books, a numismatic collection and items of equipment and weapons.
Address: Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 38, building 1, Moscow
Working hours: Monday, 10 am–6 pm
Metro stations: Park Pobedy, Kutuzovskaya
March, 12
State Darwin Museum
The State Darwin Museum is the largest natural science museum in Europe. The exposition talks about the history of the theory of evolution, the diversity of life on Earth, variability and heredity, natural selection and the battle for existence in nature. Today the State Darwin Museum is a modern permanent exhibition illustrating different evolution processes (5,000 sq. m) with a collection of about 400,000 exhibits.
Address: 57 Vavilova street, Moscow
Working hours: Tuesday, 10 am–6 pm
Metro station: Akademicheskaya
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) is the first state museum in Russia to focus on Russian art of the 20th and 21st centuries, while also introducing viewers to the international art of this period. MMOMA has seven venues, six of them in Moscow’s historic center. The Museum hosts exhibitions at all its venues, each with its own focus, and annually launches a variety of projects, different in their genre and scale: from shows of emerging authors to retrospectives of major Russian and foreign artists, from conceptual exhibitions of the collection to international festivals.
Address: 25 Petrovka, *There are several exhibitions in different locations, check website for more details
Working hours: Tuesday, 12 pm–9 pm
Metro stations: Pushkinskaya, Chekhovskaya
March, 14
Museum of Cosmonautics
The Museum of Cosmonautics is one of the largest scientific and technical museums in the world. It was opened on April 10, 1981, on the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight. The collection of objects includes more than 96 thousand items: spacesuits, artificial satellites, spacecraft for the study of the Moon and planets of the solar system, and even the personal belongings of astronauts and engineers. All this awaits in the Museum of Cosmonautics, which is located at the base of the monument ‘Conquerors of Space’. Fasten your seat belts, we're taking off!
Address: 111 Prospekt Mira
Working hours: Thursday, 11 am–9 pm
Metro station: VDNKh
Timiryazev State Biological Museum
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The Timiryazev State Biological Museum was founded in 1922. All fields of biology are represented in the exposition. The collections are diverse: taxidermy and preparations on developmental anomalies, palaeontology and botany, animalistic painting and plastic anthropological reconstructions, dioramas and biological groups, seashells and mushroom models. Today, the museum's holdings comprise more than 90,000 items.
Address: 15 Malaya Gruzinskaya Street
Working hours: Thursday, 12 pm–9 pm
Metro stations: Krasnopresnenskaya, Barrikadnaya, Ulitsa 1905 Goda
Other free events
- Note: please pay attention to the schedule.
‘LADYA’ is an exhibition project that represents the whole range of folk art in the country. Every year the exhibition enjoys great popularity—the number of visitors of the last spring project exceeded 60,000. More than 600 crafts organisations, craftspeople and artists, artisans and creative associations will present their best products, including world-famous folk art centers: Fedoskino, Palekh, Kholui, Mstyora, Zhostovo, Khokhloma, Rostov Finift, Gzhel, Kadomsky Veniz, Vologda, Elets and Mikhailovsky lace, Torzhok gold embroiderers and many others.
Address: 14 Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, Expocentre, Moscow
Working hours: Friday-Saturday, 10 am–7 pm; Sunday till 5 pm
Metro stations: Vystavochnaya, Mezhdunarodnaya, Delovoy Tsentr
March, 3
Tretyakov Gallery
- Note: Bring your Student ID.
Tretyakov Gallery is the main museum of Russian national art, reflecting its contribution to world culture. It is a hospitable museum that is known for its rich collection and variety of presented ideas. We suggest visiting a historical building, which has housed the collection of the founder of the gallery, Pavel Tretyakov, since 1856. Here you can see more than 1300 works of Russian art from the 11th till the early 20th century, beginning from pre-Mongolian icons and mosaics and ending with landscape, portrait and historical painting and masterpieces, including works as ‘Trinity’ by Andrei Rublev and ‘The Apparition of Christ Before the People’ by Alexander Ivanov. The works of the great artists Vasily Surikov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, and others are represented too.
Address: 10 Lavrushinsky Lane, Moscow
Working hours: Sunday, 10 am–6 pm
Metro stations: Novokuznetskaya, Tretyakovskaya, Polyanka
March 5-10
Traces in The Labyrinth. Images of Antiquity in Contemporary Russian Art. The Collection. Vantage Point Programme
The title of the exhibition, Traces in the Labyrinth, refers to one of the most famous legends of Ancient Greece—the myth of Minotaur and the Knossos labyrinth. The heroes of this legend—Theseus, Ariadne, Daedalus and Icarus—depicted in one of the pieces, set several topics in the exhibition. Four thematic sections—kings and gods, female images, heroes and monsters—match the four figures hidden in Alexander Dzhikiya's labyrinth. This art object takes centre stage in the exhibition. Ancient heritage has multiple interpretations that were studied by the museum's researchers. They suggest looking at the works of contemporary artists through the prism of symbolic images—archetypes—rather than through art history classification.
Address: 17 Ermolaevsky Lane, Moscow
Working hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12 pm–9 pm
Metro station: Mayakovskaya
It's all gone! Personal project of sculptor Sergey Chernov. Exhibition
In his exhibition, the artist explores the phenomenon of sculptures being public, their interaction with space and time, and the audience's response in the context of his more than 30 years of artistic experience. Looking back on his journey as an artist, he realized that most of the sculptures he had created for public spaces and outdoor exhibitions were lost. Attempting to restore these works, sometimes in reduced replicas, sometimes in their original size, Sergey Chernov draws on archival documents, photographs, sketches, and correspondence with colleagues and collectors to reconstruct his memories of these sculptures. Thus, piece by piece, the artist assembles these lost works as replicas for the exhibition.
Address: 18 Perevedenovsky Lane, Moscow
Working hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12 pm–8 pm
Metro stations: Baumanskaya, Elektrozavodskaya
March, 6
All-Russian Decorative Art Museum
- Note: Bring your Student ID.
Founded in 1981, the All-Russian Decorative Art Museum is engaged in collection, preservation, study and popularisation of decorative, applied and folk art of Russia. It boasts a huge collection of items from different regions of Russia, including crafts made of wood, bone, ceramics, glass, textiles, and precious metals.
Address: Delegatskaya st., 3, Moscow
Working hours: Wednesday, 10 am–18 pm
Metro stations: Tsvetnoy Bulvar, Mayakovskaya, Novoslobodskaya
March, 28
State Museum of Oriental Art
- Note: Bring your Student ID.
The State Museum of Oriental Art is one of the biggest cultural institutions in the world for preservation, research, and display of Oriental art. It is located in the centre of Moscow in a historical building known as the Lunins’ House, a private residence built in the early 19th century by famous architect Domenico Gilardi.
The permanent display of the Museum includes galleries of Chinese, Japanese, Korean art; Southeast Asia and Vietnam; The Caucasus and Middle Asia, including a profound collection of fine art; Iranian art, India, and Buddhist countries of Central Asia. The Museum preserves a wide archaeological collection which includes applied art of the Northern people of Russia.
Address: 12A Nikitsky Boulevard, Moscow
Working hours: Thursday, 12 pm–9 pm
Metro station: Arbatskaya, Aleksandrovskiy Sad
March, 31
State Historical Museum
- Note: Bring your Student ID.
The State Historical Museum, the largest national historical museum in Russia, was founded in 1872. Its building on Red Square was constructed between 1875 and 1883. This museum houses invaluable monuments of archaeology, numismatics, ancient books, weapons, and works of fine and decorative art. The purpose of the museum on Red Square has always remained unchanged: to gather cherished shrines, monuments, and documents from all parts of the Russian land, to depict through images and pictures the names of heroes, as well as the most significant events.
Address: 1 Red square, Moscow
Working hours: Sunday, 10 am–6 pm
Metro station: Ploschad Revolyutsii, Teatralnaya, Okhotniy Ryad
Text by Elizaveta Masenkova, International Office, Faculty of Economic Sciences