State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin Museum is one of the largest art collections of foreign art in Russia from ancient times to the present day. The modern exhibition features an extensive educational collection of tinted plaster casts from works of antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as well as a collection of original works of painting, sculpture, graphics and decorative arts. The beginning of the construction of the Museum building is considered to be August 17 (29), 1898, when the groundbreaking ceremony took place. On May 31 (June 13), 1912, it was opened to the public as the Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III at the Imperial Moscow University. In 1923, the Museum was removed from subordination to the university. In 1932 it was renamed the State Museum of Fine Arts. In 1937, the Museum was named after A.S. Pushkin. In 1991, the Museum was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation. The founder and first director of the Museum in 1911-1913 was Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev (1847-1913), a professor at Moscow University. The director from 1961 to July 2013 was Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, academician of the Russian Academy of Education. Today she is the president of the Museum, and Marina Devovna Loshak has become the director. As of the beginning of 2012, the Museum has more than 670 thousand storage units. Annual attendance is about 1 million people. Collections of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin are presented in the museum complex of buildings. The Museum operates the Center for Aesthetic Education of Children and Youth “Museion” (Kolymazhny Lane, 6).
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