Ten centuries of Russian architecture

In 2024, it will be 90 years since the founding of the State Scientific Research Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchusev. From the first days of its existence, the Museum became a center for preserving, studying and popularizing the history of Russian architecture. Today, the Museum’s collection includes about 840,000 items: these are original architectural graphics, measurement drawings, a rich collection of photographic materials, paintings, fragments of destroyed buildings, a collection of decorative and applied arts, models and layouts, personal archives of architects.

Foundation for the Development of Science and Culture "Tavolga" in partnership with the Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchusev, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, within the framework of the National Project “Culture”, present a traveling exhibition demonstrating the rich history of the development of domestic architecture from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century - “Masterpieces from the collection of the Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchusev. Ten centuries of Russian architecture." The exhibition will be held in several cities of Russia, the first of which will be Khabarovsk.

Using authentic objects from the Museum’s collection, visitors will be able to see the richness and diversity of architecture in different regions of Russia, the interconnection and continuity in the development of architectural schools, movements and styles. Through sketches and drawings, models and details of reliefs, tiles and photographs, residents of Khabarovsk will be able to get acquainted with the best monuments of the Pskov, Vladimir-Suzdal, early Moscow architectural schools, tent architecture, the eras of Peter the Great and Elizabethan Baroque, classicism and empire style, historicism and modernism, avant-garde, Stalinist neoclassicism and modernism.