Armoury Chamber

The Armory Chamber is a treasury museum. It is part of the complex of the Grand Kremlin Palace. It is located in a building which was built in 1851 by the architect Konstantin Ton. The basis of the museum collection was the precious items made in the Kremlin workshops and received as a gift from the embassies of foreign countries for centuries. They kept in the tsar's treasury and the patriarchal sacristy. The museum owes its name to one of the oldest Kremlin treasuries. The Armory stores the ancient state regalia, the ceremonial royal dress and coronation gown, the vestments of the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest collection of gold and silver items made by Russian masters, Western European artistic silver, weapons masterpieces, a collection of carriages, ceremonial equine items. The museum features about four thousand monuments of arts and crafts of Russia, Europe and the East IV - the beginning of the XX century. Their highest artistic level and special historical and cultural value have brought world fame to the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin.