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Museum opening hours during May holidays 2025

from 22-04-2025

Dear visitors! 
Please note the Museum opening hours for the May holidays 2025.
The Museum is closed on the 1st, 3rd, 9th, and 10th of May. 
The Museum is open for self-guided visits on the 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 8th of May.
Guided tours can be booked on the 4th, 7th, and 11th of May by phone: 8-495-656-45-71.
Entrance to the Museum and guided tours are always free!
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Portrait with a Wife: Stories of 8 Women

from 09-04-2025

On March 8th we announced a new virtual photo exhibition - “A Portrait with a Wife” - made possible through a partnership with the “Russian History in Photographs” project. All the women protagonists have one thing in common: they came to our collection as wives of their more famous husbands; all the photos exhibited were included in personal archives, where the husband plays the lead role. However, there is more to that story. These women were wives and partners, faithful to their choice. Some made their way in the world, some became a pillar of support to their men. Studying the biographies and archives revealed their own faces and stories. 
You can view the virtual exhibition here, and for more detailed biographies – visit our social media.

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Military oath of allegiance for the Jews
1900s Chromolithograph on paper. 23 х 15.
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Case for a Torah scroll
Late 19 – early 20 cent. Wood, velvet, leather, and copper with embossing; freshwater pearls and semi-precious stones. Height: 55.7; diameter: 23.
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Tar and kamancha, stringed musical instruments used by the Mountain Jews
First half of 20 cent. Wood. Tar: 86.5 х 15.8 х 16.5. Kamancha: 72.8 х 16 х 17.
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Woman’s holiday khalat – ‘kaltach’
First quarter of 20 cent. Blue satin, adras, and calico. 123 х 71; sleeve length: 51.
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Set of dishes for blessings over wine during the Passover seder
Second half of 19 cent. Embossed silver. Saucer: diameter: 13. Small cups (5 items; shaped as piyalas): Height: 3.5; diameter: 5. Large cup (shaped as piyala): height: 4.5; diameter: 8.5.
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Sketch of the costume of kuni-leml for a production of the theater "Kunst-Vinkl" after the A. Goldfaden's play "The Two Kuni-Lemls"
The mid. 1920's Indian ink and pencil on paper. 36 х 26,3.
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Sketch for the play "Stempenyu" by Sholem Aleichem
1966 Lithography. 75 х 52,5.
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Items for daily use manufactured by Jews in the partisan units of Polesie Belarus. Overshoes
1942 – 1944