Moscow Kremlin Museums

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Moscow Kremlin Museums

Музеи Московского Кремля
Established	1806
Location	Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
Director	Yelena Gagarina
Website	kreml.ru/museums-moscow-kremlin

Moscow Kremlin Museums (Russian: Музеи Московского Кремля (MMK), Государственный историко-культурный музей-заповедник «Московский Кремль») is a major state-run museum in Moscow Kremlin. Its roots lie in the Kremlin Armoury museum founded in 1806, the current form of the museum started in 1991. The Head of the museum (since 2001) is Yelena Gagarina, daughter of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. There were 424,922 visitors to the Kremlin Museums in 2020, a drop of 86 percent from 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still ranked 46th on the List of most-visited art museums in the world in 2020.^[1]

Moscow Kremlin Museums have the following parts:

• Kremlin Armoury (Оружейная палата)
• Diamond Fund (Алмазный фонд)
• Dormition Cathedral (Успенский Собор)
• Cathedral of the Archangel (Архангельский собор)
• Cathedral of the Annunciation (Благовещенский собор)
• Residence of Patriarchs and Church of the Twelve Apostles (Патриарший дворец и церковь Двенадцати апостолов)
• Church of the Deposition of the Robe (Церковь Ризоположения)
• Ivan the Great Bell Tower (Колокольня Ивана Великого)