The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) is the first state museum in Russia to focus on Russian art of the 20th and 21st centuries, while also introducing viewers to the international art of this period.
Supported by the Moscow Government, the museum welcomed its first visitors on December 15, 1999. Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, was the founder and director of the museum. By donating artworks he accumulated over the years, Tsereteli laid the foundation for the museum’s collection, which has expanded considerably since then. Today, the MMOMA holds over 10,000 works featuring artists of various, sometimes opposing trends — avant-garde movements, social realism, non-conformism, academism, naive art, contemporary practices, etc.
MMOMA has seven venues, six of them in Moscow’s historic center. These stunning exhibition spaces include the main museum building on Petrovka and two buildings on Gogolevsky Boulevard, the MMOMA Educational Center on Ermolaevsky Lane, the museum studios of Zurab Tsereteli, Dmitri Nalbandian and the Vadim Sidur Museum in Novogireyevo.
