Description: The Tretyakov and Pushkin are Moscow's leading art museums. The Pushkin holds art from outside Russia. The original collection was a bunch of replicas of famous European art made for art students to study. The Pushkin’s four rooms of Impressionist art rival the Hermitage collection. Almost all the people on the Pushkin bus went to see the museum’s noted collection of French Impressionism (one gallery had a dozen Monet's; the next room, 11 Renoir's), and some of them ran into trouble trying to find it. A reception had closed the route the guide had directed us to take, and the floor plans were only in Russian. I had Baedeker’s, with a floor plan in English, so we maneuvered directly to the Impressionist Galleries.
On our way back, for a quick walk-through of the rest of the museum, we rescued some of our group who were still floundering about trying to find the Impressionist galleries with time running out. If you are on your own, here’s how to find the Impressionist rooms. As you face the entrance to the museum from the steps outside, the Impressionist collection is in four rooms, one room on either side of the center of the second floor above the front door, and then two rooms connecting to the front facing gallery to the right of center.
Other than the Impressionist collection, there are some Kandinsky's, Picasso's, and a nice collection of artifacts and mummies from ancient Egypt.
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