Bakhrushin Museum

A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum

Государственный Центральный театральный музей им. А. А. Бахрушина
A. A. Bakhrushin state Central Theatre Museum.
Location within Moscow
Established	1894 (1894)
Location	Moscow
Coordinates	55°43′54″N 37°38′16″E / 55.73167°N 37.63778°E / 55.73167; 37.63778
Collection size	1,500,000+
Founder	Alexey Bakhrushin
Director	Dmitriy Rodionov
Architect	Karl Gippius
Website	Official website

A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum (abbreviated as SCTM. A. A. Bakhrushin, the Bakhrushin Museum, the former Literary-Theatrical Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Russian: Государственный Центральный Театральный Музей им. А.А.Бахрушина, also known as ГЦТМ им. А.А.Бахрушина) is a museum in Moscow dedicated to the theatre. It was founded in 1894 by the Russian merchant, and philanthropist Alexey Alexandrovich Bakhrushin [ru].^[1] The Great Soviet Encyclopedia characterises it as the largest theatre museum in the world.