Surrounded by modern restaurants like Uilliam's, «I Love Cake» and Pavilion, Patriarch Ponds area is also one of the main settings of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.
Sovremennik (means «Contemporary») was founded in 1956 by a group of young soul-mate actors. Loved by muscovites, it was also the first foreign theatre to win an American Drama Desk Award.
First private gallery in Moscow devoted exclusively to fine art photography. It specializes in 20th century soviet photography, photo-journalism, fashion and works by Russian contemporary artists.
MAMM's current position as one of the city’s most respected and popular art spaces is the result of years of careful operation and ambitious, long-running and perfectly balanced exhibitions.
Winzavod means Wine Factory, which is exactly what it used to be in it's heydays. Now turned into a neighbourhood of galleries, contemporary art houses and concept stores.
More than fifty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, Russia's space industry has re-emerged as leader of the global space programme and the renovated Moscow Planetarium show us why.
Monet, Matisse, Korovin, Degas, van Gogh, Renoir, Vuillard, Aivazovsky, Repin, Cezanne, Manet, Rousseau, Pissarro. Just go.
After a major reconstruction in 2011, Gorky Park became the most popular place to go for a stroll in Moscow. There's a plethora of cafes, restaurants and activities. Free Wi-Fi is available.
The group of friends operate this Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, where about 40 games click, whirr, whistle, flash and beep to the delight of visitors from around the world.
Constructed in 1956 as a Soviet army command centre and nuclear bomb shelter, the location of this top-secret bunker was only revealed in 2006 when it became a museum. Book tickets in advance via web.
