Travel Reference
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Burganov House
A sprawling maze of buildings and courtyards, filled with whimsical
sculpture and art.
Best for Offbeat
Soviet Arcade Games Museum
Arcade games as history lesson and sociological study.
Moscow Design Museum
Catch an exhibit in the big, bold, black-and-white bus.
Moscow Museum
The medieval history is fine, but the rotating temporary exhibits are pro-
vocative and perplexing.
Best Literary Museums
Bulgakov House-Museum
The censored writer's former flat offers a calendar of lively cul-
tural events.
Tolstoy Estate-Museum
See where Russia's most celebrated novelist lived and worked.
Ryabushinsky Mansion
This architectural landmark was also the home of Soviet writer
Maxim Gorky.
Gogol House
Gaze into the fireplace where Gogol famously tossed his
Dead Souls
manuscript.
Best Contemporary Art Centres
Vinzavod
The original post-industrial art complex, in a former wine-bottling factory.
Red October
Once a chocolate factory, now an art and entertainment hot spot.
Flakon
This former glassworks is packed with unique boutiques selling designer stuff.
ArtPlay on Yauza
A design centre housed in the former Manometer factory.
