Arts and Crafts Museum

Museum of decorative and applied arts ( Arts & Crafts Museum)

On the way to the Museum we will see one more curious thing 🙂

At 12h the famous Clock at the Puppet Theatre named after Obraztsova strikes and all the puppets come out dancing 🙂

Tour of the Arts and Crafts Museum

The main exposition of the museum consists of many amazing things, including a display of peasant wooden toys, Vologda lacework, Soviet porcelain of 30-50s ( an interesting piece is composition called «discussion of Stalin’s Constitution»; an exposition called «Russian Style» that explains to you about Russian art XVIII-XIX centuries; you can also see pictures of the last Russian emperor and empress wearing traditional folk costumes as they used to organize balls in such a style.

Pictures below will give you a good idea of what you will see. Folk crafts always reflect the country they come from and this Museum gives you a great perception of what Russia is about in terms of popular creativity.

The Museum is located in a historical building that belonged to count Tolstoy-Osterman.