The 10th-anniversary music festival “Ambassadorial Gifts” in the Moscow Kremlin Museums was sold out. This year the project was dedicated to a large-scale exhibition "The Legacy of Peter the Great and Coups d'Etat in the Russian Empire".

A large-scale restoration project was presented in the Moscow Kremlin Museums in the Crown Hall of the Armoury Chamber on 5 December 2024. The coronation dress of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, spouse of Emperor Nicholas I, returned to the exposition after 10 years. The attire is made of light silver silk brocade and decorated with a silver-thread stumpwork and spangles in rose and lily wreaths.

The Moscow Kremlin Museums will present the publications at the International Book Fair for High-Quality Fiction and Non-Fiction “Non/fiction” that will take place in the Gostiniy Dvor from 5 to 8 December 2024.

On 19-20 November 2024, the Moscow Kremlin Museums held a conference devoted to the studies of crises in the history of Russian statehood in the 16th-18th centuries and the strategies that power and society devised to overcome them.

On 18 October, the Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin Museums hosted the opening of the 10th Festival “Ambassadorial Gifts” timed to the large-scale exhibition project "The Legacy of Peter the Great and Coups d'Etat in the Russian Empire".

On 15 November 2024 the exhibition "The Legacy of Peter the Great and Coups d'Etat in the Russian Empire" will be held in the exhibition halls of the Patriarch's Palace and the Assumption Belfry, and will focus on the "era of court storms" that began after the death of Peter the Great. This large-scale exhibition project involves 14 of the largest museums, archives and libraries in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which are lending 260 exhibits.

Free admission for the participants of the special military operation and their family members will be available from 19 to 25 October, allowing them to visit the territory of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, architectural ensemble of Cathedral Square, Armoury Chamber as well as the exhibitions of the museum.

On 7 September 2024, the Open Day was held for the first time in the Museum Lecture Hall on Manezhnaya Street.

On September 7, 2024, an Open Day will be held at the Lecture Hall and Children's Center of the Moscow Kremlin Museums on Manezhnaya Street.

Free admission for the participants of the special military operation and their family members is available from 25 to 31 July, allowing them to visit the territory of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the architectural ensemble of Cathedral Square, the Armoury Chamber, and exhibitions of the museum: “Games Our Ancestors Played” in the State Anteroom of the Armoury Chamber and “Silver Valuables of Oman” in the venues of the Patriarch’s Place.

On June 23, the film screening, devoted to Russia Day and held within the promotional project Znanie.Kino of the Russian Society “Znanie”(knowledge), took place in the Lecture Hall of the Moscow Kremlin Museums on Manezhnaya Street, 7.

From 12.00 to 14.00 on 23 June, the film screening, devoted to Russia Day and held within the promotional project Znanie.Kino of the Russian Society “Znanie”(knowledge), will take place in the Lecture Hall of the Moscow Kremlin Museums on the Manezhnaya street, 7.

On 12 July 2024, the exhibition ‘The Elegance of Silver: Valuables of the Omani Court’ will open in the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

On 9 June 2024,the presentation of new programmes of the Moscow Kremlin Museums took place in the Literary Drawing Room of the GUM Department Store within the framework of the “Red Square” Book Fair.

Let us congratulate Elena Yurievna and wish her further success in the safekeeping of the cultural heritage of Russia!

From the 6th till the 9th of June, the 10th Book Fair “Red Square” will be held in Moscow. The stand № 11 of the Moscow Kremlin Museums will open on the Museum line in the GUM Department Store. The visitors will be able to buy exhibition catalogues, guides, books for family reading and various museum souvenirs.

We sincerely congratulate Tatyana Vashchenko, Artist-restorer of fabrics of superior expert category, with the award of National Premium in the Museum Sphere Named after D.S. Likhachev in the category of ‘Restorer’. The prize-giving was held within the framework of International Festival ‘Intermuseum’ in the new building of the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya embankment on 23 May 2024.

On 20 May 2024, the Armoury Chamber hosted a concert from the cycle “Music Meetings in the Kremlin”.The audience listened to the works of Peter Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, Sergey Rachmaninoff, and modern composers.

On 18 May 2024, the Moscow Kremlin Museums joined the All-Russian Campaign “The Night of the Museums”. A special evening programme with lecture, quizzes and table-top games awaited the guests in the Museum’s Lecture Hall on the Manezhnaya street.

On 25-26 April 2024, the Cross Chamber of the Patriarch’s Palace hosted the conference “Private Collecting as a Form of Preserving National Historical Objects”, timed to the current exhibition of the museum “Amateur Scholars of the Russian History. Pavel Karabanov and Moscow Collectors of the 19th Century”.

On 18 May 2024, the Moscow Kremlin Museums will join the All-Russian Campaign “The Night of the Museums”. A special evening program will be held in the museum’s Lecture Hall on the Manezhnaya street, 7.

Researchers of the Moscow Kremlin Museums have introduced into scientific discourse an atlas that contains 38 engraved maps. It used to be kept in the Scientific and Reference Library of the museum. The museum workers found out that these are maps of the 1730s by Guillaume Delisle - chief royal mapmaker of France.

The Total Dictation, an annual enlightenment action realized by activists and volunteers and aimed at the studying of the Russian language, was held in the Cross Chamber of the Patriarch’s Palace on 20 April 2024.

On 18 April 2024, we faced bitter grief – Tatiana Sergeevna Borisova, one of the oldest and most talented scientific researchers of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, left this world.

On 19 April 2024, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin awarded General Director of the Moscow Kremlin Museums Elena Gagarina an Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’, 3d class, ‘for contributing a lot to the development of museology and preservation of Russian cultural heritage.

On 9-10 April 2024, the anniversary research-to-practice conference ‘Museum Libraries in Modern Society’ was held in the lecture hall of the Moscow Kremlin Museums on Manezhnaya Street. This year, the theme of the conference was ‘Book in a Journey, Journey in a Book’.

The photography exhibition under the title “Moscow. Kremlin. Exact Time” opened in the International Airport of Khabarovsk named after G. I. Nevelsky. It is dedicated to the watches from the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

The Moscow Kremlin Museums will present the publications at the International Book Fair for High-Quality Fiction and Non-Fiction “Non/fictio№” that will take place in the Gostiniy Dvor from 4 to 7 April 2024.

On 6 March 2024, the soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic, laureate of the XV International Competition named after Tchaikovsky Dmitry Masleev and piano duet of Maria and Desislava, the Bobrin sisters - graduates of the Moscow State Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky, participants of international competitions and festivals - performed in the Armoury Chamber.

On 25-26 January 2024, the Cross Chamber of the Patriarch’s Palace hosted the 26th session of the section “Ecclesiastical Antiquities” of the 32nd International Educational Readings. The theme of this year is “The Orthodox and National Culture: Losses and Acquirements of the Past, Image of the Future”.

On 12 January 2024, the soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic, laureate of the 15th International Competition named after Tchaikovsky, Dmitry Masleev performed in the Armoury Chamber.

In 2023, the Moscow Kremlin Museums welcomed 1 024 610 visitors. During the year, the guests visited the Armoury Chamber, the architectural ensemble of the Cathedral Square, exhibitions of the museum, lectures, workshops, cultural and educational programmes, conferences and music festivals. The milestone of a millionth attendance was passed for the first time after the COVID-19 pandemic that had started in 2020.