Coleccion del Museo Ruso
Coleccion del Museo Ruso
Coleccion del Museo Ruso
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The Russian State Museum Collection St. Petersburg / Malaga, in a centre equipped to become a reference point for Russian culture in West Europe. The space host a series of long-term exhibitions, updated each year, tracing the complex and fascinating history of Russian art and its ever-changing relationship with European culture. In parallel, successive temporary exhibitions will round off the centre's programme. The Museum's facilities enable the venue to offer a monthly programme comprising talks, lms, literary readings, classical music and folklore, turning the museum's branch in Malaga into a genuine window onto the cultural soul of Russia.
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Ella H
Malaga, Spain6 contributions
Aug 2021
The building itself is in a really lovely old tabacco factory so I would recommend going just for that. It's never been that busy when I have gone and there have never been any queues.
The tickets are quite expensive - I would only pay for the annual exhibition really as the temporary one of Tolstoy wasn't really worth it. I have been before where they had more art from 20th Century Russia and this was a lot more interesting. The annual exhibition that they have now isn't as interesting.
I was a bit disappointed that I came here a few years ago and the exhibitions were much better curated with a more engaging theme. The exhibitions currently feel a bit lackluster.
In addition, the cafe and gift shop were both closed because of covid.
I only spent 45 minutes here, which for 8 euros wasn't really worth it as there were only a couple of pieces which really caught my attention.
The tickets are quite expensive - I would only pay for the annual exhibition really as the temporary one of Tolstoy wasn't really worth it. I have been before where they had more art from 20th Century Russia and this was a lot more interesting. The annual exhibition that they have now isn't as interesting.
I was a bit disappointed that I came here a few years ago and the exhibitions were much better curated with a more engaging theme. The exhibitions currently feel a bit lackluster.
In addition, the cafe and gift shop were both closed because of covid.
I only spent 45 minutes here, which for 8 euros wasn't really worth it as there were only a couple of pieces which really caught my attention.
Written August 30, 2021
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GranZorro
Zug, Switzerland1,566 contributions
Feb 2020
As far as I know, there are not many museums worldwide which get regular loans and even whole exhibitions from Leningrad's State Museum, together with the Hermitage one of the two most important in Russia. The Russian Museum is really a feather in the cap of Malaga's administration, which put the town on the Spanish cultural map in a big way with its 35 or so museums.
And it is definitely worth a visit. We saw three most interesting shows there, well curated and explained.
There is free parking in the courtyard, and also a public bus to take the visitor from the town center.
And it is definitely worth a visit. We saw three most interesting shows there, well curated and explained.
There is free parking in the courtyard, and also a public bus to take the visitor from the town center.
Written March 7, 2020
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cristina c
Marbella, Spain30 contributions
Jan 2023 • Family
The infrastructure is the best thing about this museum: it’s in a renovated tabaco factory. The visiting exhibit of Sputnik was amazing. The Picasso drawings also very good, but the bulk of the collection is unrepresentative of how fabulous Russian art can be and it seems a waste to have such a beautiful space and fill it with unimpressive pieces. The employees were helpful and cordial, but all in all it was a disappointment. I will not return.
Written January 8, 2023
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chilton
Fife, UK171 contributions
Mar 2024 • Couples
need to catch a bus out of tow to visit (and then we walked back along the waterfront. Part of a converted Tobacco Factory near b in the South. The museum no longer has exhibits from The Hermitage, St Petersburg following the Ukraine war but there is a large private collection of Russian art; a poster exhibition about revolution and post revolution USSR. Also good collection of western artists -Hockney,Warhol
Written March 18, 2024
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carlotta0203
Turin, Italy44 contributions
Aug 2024 • Couples
Museum with only temporary exhibitions outside the most touristic museum circuit. They currently have on display a large number of works (over 400!) from the Kostakis collection in Thessaloniki on the Russian avant-garde. The works are of the highest standard and the layout of the rooms excellent. Absolutely recommended.
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Written August 1, 2024
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anythingwilldo_9
Derby56 contributions
Jan 2018 • Couples
Came all the way from England to see this exhibition. Web site said it was open today. Sadly it was closed as they are changing the exhibition. Today was 25 January 2018. Not even an apology from the girl on the door. Apparently closed until next month. You must contact them if you plan to visit to ensure it is open.
Written January 25, 2018
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Bruce W
Mijas, Spain1,774 contributions
Aug 2019
We had been close to this museum a couple of times when visiting the Museo Automovilistico in Malaga. This time we thought we would check out the Museo Ruso. We were pleasantly surprised. We learned that the semi-permanent displays were from the St Petersburg Museum and that this museum of Russian art is the only one of its kind outside of Russia.
We entered on the ground floor but the galleries are on the first floor, accessible by escalator (thank goodness) as it is a building with ceilings that appear to be 5 to 7 metres high in this area. There is a lift, and air-conditioning too.
The introductory temporary photographic exhibition illustrated, only too well, life and architecture that persists in Russia beyond the end of the communist period. After this section, there is a desk at which you can collect an audio device in one of a number of languages. Since most of the paintings, icons and displays had an accompanying descriptive panel I decided to forgo the audio device. This decision is based on a wish to take photographs as I travel around a museum or gallery and I find that if I attempt to use an audio device as well as a camera they end up in conflict (I know, I’m not a person easily given to multi-tasking).
Immediately behind the audio desk is a nice cafeteria, with fresh coffee and edibles. For me, it is nice to have the choice of a coffee before I tour the galleries, or, one after. Similarly, the adjacent Gift/Book Shop offers the same option. After this the galleries begin. Roughly speaking you tour in a circle, but a number of the galleries are interconnected, giving you more than one choice leading into the next gallery. If you are not careful, you might miss one or two of the galleries as you work your way round. That would be a shame, as all the rooms contain a diversity of excellent artwork.
I won’t go into description of individual pieces as I feel that would be unnecessary; far better to put yourself in front of them. Although, I have included with this review some of the photographs I took, to give the flavour of the works.
This is a place to which I will return on a regular basis.
Thanks for reading this and if you've found it helpful I'd appreciate a ‘thumbs up’ below.
We entered on the ground floor but the galleries are on the first floor, accessible by escalator (thank goodness) as it is a building with ceilings that appear to be 5 to 7 metres high in this area. There is a lift, and air-conditioning too.
The introductory temporary photographic exhibition illustrated, only too well, life and architecture that persists in Russia beyond the end of the communist period. After this section, there is a desk at which you can collect an audio device in one of a number of languages. Since most of the paintings, icons and displays had an accompanying descriptive panel I decided to forgo the audio device. This decision is based on a wish to take photographs as I travel around a museum or gallery and I find that if I attempt to use an audio device as well as a camera they end up in conflict (I know, I’m not a person easily given to multi-tasking).
Immediately behind the audio desk is a nice cafeteria, with fresh coffee and edibles. For me, it is nice to have the choice of a coffee before I tour the galleries, or, one after. Similarly, the adjacent Gift/Book Shop offers the same option. After this the galleries begin. Roughly speaking you tour in a circle, but a number of the galleries are interconnected, giving you more than one choice leading into the next gallery. If you are not careful, you might miss one or two of the galleries as you work your way round. That would be a shame, as all the rooms contain a diversity of excellent artwork.
I won’t go into description of individual pieces as I feel that would be unnecessary; far better to put yourself in front of them. Although, I have included with this review some of the photographs I took, to give the flavour of the works.
This is a place to which I will return on a regular basis.
Thanks for reading this and if you've found it helpful I'd appreciate a ‘thumbs up’ below.
Written September 22, 2019
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Marion S
Southampton, UK75 contributions
Feb 2018 • Friends
...and now you can get there on the new Malaga metro, to the Princesa Huelin stop. They've just opened a temporary exhibition of Socialist realist painting and sculpture alongside their fantastic permanent exhibition and today we went just to see that. Representations of an era and philosophy known to us from our childhood and A Level history studies but one that is fading. Not at all realist but a great propaganda exercise in which workers smile and steel founders replace film stars as heroes. It only opened last week; the electronic commentary is not yet available and paper guides only in Spanish. More explanation of historical events would have placed the works in perspective. Only the dates of the paintings were given and not the dates of the various congresses etc which were depicted. Some of the paintings are very large and suffer because lighting obscures their upper parts. It made us talk a lot; not the least in thinking that this is how Spain might have been depicted had the Civil War gone the other way.
Great walk back into Malaga along the beach; not far, or at least it did not seem so once we had stopped at several beach bars.
Great walk back into Malaga along the beach; not far, or at least it did not seem so once we had stopped at several beach bars.
Written February 14, 2018
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Bruce W
Mijas, Spain1,774 contributions
Aug 2021
War & Peace Exhibition:
We made another visit to the Museo Ruso in Malaga since before the start of Covid 19 times. This was to find out what the 2021 display was all about.
The title of the exhibition was 'War and Peace'. This should give you an idea of the theme, although the emphasis was somewhat more on the part of 'War' as opposed to 'Peace'. My wife found the subject matter was a bit depressing in many cases, whereas I was more impressed by the standards of artistry and design throughout the exhibition.
A special mention of the included bronze sculptures should be made. The craftsmanship of these representations of warrior horsemen is absolutely superb. Other stand-out paintings for me were the one of three men in a dugout, entitled 'Suspicious Characters'. Another, was of a family standing in the doorway of a house, entitled 'A Letter from the Front'. The third example that I am going to mention is entitled 'The Farewell'. A painting of a soldier saying goodbye to his wife/sweetheart. These paintings were particularly evocative of the many aspects of a war situation demonstrated within this exhibition.
In conjunction with the 'War and Peace' exhibition were two other ancilliary exhibitions linked to it. One was about Leonid Tolstoy and his book, hence the theme for the main exhibition and the other was one devoted to the work of Ivan Aivazovsky, a painter of both tranquil and atmospheric seascapes.
The Museo Ruso galleries are all set at first floor level within the former cigar/cigarette manufacturing building, but have easy access by means of a grand escalator and a lift, the lift is large enough to accommodate wheelchairs and passengers. If you wish to see all three exhibitions and are old enough to qualify for a 'senior' reduction, or are a student up to the age of 26 years, entrance is only 4 euros. Audio-guides are available in 6 languages and visitor guides are usually available between 12 noon and 13:00hrs.
Thanks for reading this and if you've found it helpful I'd appreciate a ‘thumbs up’ below.
We made another visit to the Museo Ruso in Malaga since before the start of Covid 19 times. This was to find out what the 2021 display was all about.
The title of the exhibition was 'War and Peace'. This should give you an idea of the theme, although the emphasis was somewhat more on the part of 'War' as opposed to 'Peace'. My wife found the subject matter was a bit depressing in many cases, whereas I was more impressed by the standards of artistry and design throughout the exhibition.
A special mention of the included bronze sculptures should be made. The craftsmanship of these representations of warrior horsemen is absolutely superb. Other stand-out paintings for me were the one of three men in a dugout, entitled 'Suspicious Characters'. Another, was of a family standing in the doorway of a house, entitled 'A Letter from the Front'. The third example that I am going to mention is entitled 'The Farewell'. A painting of a soldier saying goodbye to his wife/sweetheart. These paintings were particularly evocative of the many aspects of a war situation demonstrated within this exhibition.
In conjunction with the 'War and Peace' exhibition were two other ancilliary exhibitions linked to it. One was about Leonid Tolstoy and his book, hence the theme for the main exhibition and the other was one devoted to the work of Ivan Aivazovsky, a painter of both tranquil and atmospheric seascapes.
The Museo Ruso galleries are all set at first floor level within the former cigar/cigarette manufacturing building, but have easy access by means of a grand escalator and a lift, the lift is large enough to accommodate wheelchairs and passengers. If you wish to see all three exhibitions and are old enough to qualify for a 'senior' reduction, or are a student up to the age of 26 years, entrance is only 4 euros. Audio-guides are available in 6 languages and visitor guides are usually available between 12 noon and 13:00hrs.
Thanks for reading this and if you've found it helpful I'd appreciate a ‘thumbs up’ below.
Written August 16, 2021
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Giampaolo B
Vernier, Switzerland94 contributions
Jan 2018 • Couples
The exibition shows all of the historical developement of the russian tzars.
Very well organised cronologically.
Very well organised cronologically.
Written January 24, 2018
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Do they allow non flash photography and if so does this include the Kandinsky exhibition?
Thanks in advance!
Written May 3, 2017
Yes - as answered before. Well worth a visit even if not using a camera. Also next door is their Auto and Fashion museum again well worth a visit.
Written May 4, 2017
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