Event: Russia - Moscow

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

When:	Daily; not Mon
Where:	Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Costs:	Guest pass to all museums Rbl500, children Rbl300; admission to main museum or Impressionists only Rbl300, children Rbl150
Opening Hours:	Tue-Sun 10am-7pm (until 9pm Thu)

With new displays opened in 2007, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, in Prechistenka, covers art from Ancient Egypt to Grand Masters including Rubens and Breughel. A user-friendly modern building houses its Impressionists, including Monet, Van Gogh, and Gaugin.

Originally opened in 1912, only the Hermitage in St Petersburg rivals the fine Russian and European collections at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Renamed after the famous 19th-century Russian poet and writer in 1937, it has a wide-ranging permanent collection stretching from Assyrian, Greek (including treasures from Troy) and Egyptian relics to paintings by Picasso.

Thanks to the Russian scholar V S Golenischev, the museum also has a fabulous collection of Ancient Egyptian art. The collection of artefacts and sculptures (more than 6000 items) represents the entire dynastic inheritance of the Nile civilisation.

The museum's most prized possessions are the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works - an entire gallery of works by Paul Gauguin including The King's Wife, works by Van Gogh, Matisse and Cezanne as well as Manet's Dejeuner Sur L'herbe and Auguste Renoir's Bathing In The Seine.

The galleries of 16th-18th-century art contain fine works by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Madonna and Child), Bronzino, Rembrandt, Poussin, Guardi and Canaletto, while the impressive sculpture gallery has more than 600 works from European masters.