Moscow Kremlin Museums: RESEARCH

RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Archangel`s Cathedral in scaffolding The website's section «Research projects» is dedicated to a labour intensive process of restoration and research work, revival of the museums' monuments having lost their memorial status and having been used by administrative and logistic services. For example, in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, which has been used as a public lavatory from the beginning of the 1960s, a new exhibition hall was opened in 2005 after a long restoration work. As for the Ivan the Great Bell-Tower, it served as service rooms till 1996. Upon completion of recovery work it is planned to open a new exposition, dedicated to a history of development of the Moscow Kremlin architectural complex and its historical monuments, having been lost or destroyed through centuries.

The section introduces completed projects of restoration of the Moscow Kremlin architectural monuments as well as results of archeological researches, carried out in the territory of Kremlin.

RECENT RESTORATION PROJECTS

Restoration of the Annunciation Cathedral should be mentioned among the recent restoration projects, made by the Kremlin Museums. During the centuries, the Annunciation Cathedral had been the Moscow Great Princes' and Tzars' home church.

Restoration of architectural monuments

Preserving the architectural monuments of the Kremlin is one of the most important spheres of activity of the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

Exposition of the Russian cannons of the XVIIth-early XVIIIth century

The exposition, opened in the Kremlin Ivanovskaya Square, near the famous Tsar Cannon, incorporates 14 cannon barrels of the XVIIth-XVIIIth century from the Moscow Kremlin collection.

Ivan the Great Bell-Tower

The process of restoration of the Ivan the Great Bell-Tower and re-equipment of its interior for the museum purposes lasted for several years and successfully finished in 2008 when a new exposition dedicated to history of the Moscow Kremlin architectural complex was unveiled in its halls.

One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace

In 2003 the Moscow Kremlin architectural bureau and personnel of the Central Scientific-restoration Workshops launched a project of restoration of the One-Pillar Chamber dated to the XVIIth century. As a part of a great architectural complex of the Patriarch's Palace it was intended to become an exhibition hall upon completion of restoration works.