MUZEON Park of Arts

MUZEON Park of Arts is the largest museum of sculpture under open sky in Russia. In the collection there are unique monuments of soviet era, which got here during the foundation of the museum since 1992.It is a monumental sculpture of the 1930s – 1950s, which served not only to ideas of propaganda, but also town forming concept – a monument to Dzerzhinsky by Evgeny Vuchetich and a monument To Gorky by Ilya Shadr performed by the Artel of Vera Mukhina, for many years were sculptural dominants of the two central Moscow squares. Also in the MUZEON collection there are interesting monuments of the era of social realism, numerous busts of heroes of socialist labor, traditional portraits of soviet leaders, obligatory for installation in every soviet institution. Preservation of these unique monuments, the relation to which changed on the course of change of a political policy of the country, was always one of the museum’s tasks. All sculptures in the collection and iconic buildings of the soviet period have not only artistic value, which can be controversial, but historical value. They are artifacts of their era, necessary to study it. In connection with it, preservation and scientific description of all exhibits are the one of the museum’s purposes. In addition to the “program” monuments of the soviet period, MUZEON also exhibits works by Russian avant-garde sculptors, who, under ideological reasons, couldn’t be exhibited under soviet power. They were kept in workshop for a long time and weren’t presented to the general public. Among them are rare works of Evgeny Chubarov, Alexei Grigoriev and Leonid Rabins. Today MUZEON actively exhibits modern sculptors, expanding the boundaries of its collection and replenishing it with plein-air painting and materials of thematic photo exhibitions, modern art-objects and video-art materials.