In 1996, artist and collector Yulia Vishnevskaya made a wonderful gift to children and adults throughout the country - she organized the Moscow Puppet Museum.

Puppet people

The beautiful museum building gives you the feeling that something interesting is hidden inside. Its facade is made in the form of an arch covered with shaded glass. And expectations do not remain disappointed - upon entering the hall, many cannot contain their exclamation of admiration. Very beautiful! From the wonderful shop windows, the colorful puppet people who arrived here from different eras and from all over globe. The collection includes more than 6 thousand exhibits and represents several directions.

• Living rooms used to be decorated with interior dolls. In the museum you can see ancient Russian dolls, of which extremely few have survived - in the 30s they were disposed of as “too bourgeois”, because they looked luxurious, and then this was not fashionable and was not welcomed.
• The wax dolls were miraculously preserved. They were made in the 18th century by craftsmen in England.
• There are unique specimens. For example, a 17th-century peg doll and a flower girl doll from Holland, as well as a doll with three faces (one laughing, the second crying, the third sleeping).
• The 19th century hairpin dolls are presented - a gentleman in a bowler hat and a girl in a wedding dress.
• The pride of the exhibition were toys produced at the Zhuravlev and Kocheshkov factories.
• One magnificent Suok, belonging to the heir of Tootsie (by fairy tale story about three fat men), it’s already worth coming to the Museum unique dolls.
• There are twin dolls that have a wonderful story.
• It turns out that in the world there are not only European baby dolls that we are familiar with, but also Japanese baby dolls and black baby dolls.
• The dancing dolls amaze with their grace and make you look at the mysterious objects they hold in their hands.
• Very interesting collection dolls from the times of the USSR. Each doll is dressed in a historically accurate national outfit of each of the 15 republics.
• In the museum, among the porcelain ladies, you can also find a rag old woman with an expressive face - you can’t even believe that it is made of fabric.
• There are ancient animal dolls and modern characters, such as Kuzya the brownie.

All dolls seem alive. It feels like children from other times played with them. The details are especially touching. These are tiny real shoes on the dolls’ feet, according to the fashion of the times when they were made (for example, with wooden soles and tiny fasteners). Miniature glasses and mittens the size of a child’s little finger are wonderful. All this is handmade. How different it is from the mass production of modern dolls with identical faces. The guide can tell you a lot of interesting things about each doll, with audio recordings and video material helping him with this.

Dolls' home

In addition to the dolls themselves, the museum features unique doll houses. They contain real small furniture and miniature dishes. By playing with such toys, in the old days girls learned housekeeping and etiquette rules. Interesting fact- Previously, dishes for dolls were made by the same factories that made real dishes for people.

All the decorations reproduce in detail the life of the time when they were made. For example, in some houses you can see scrambled eggs in a frying pan, in others there are miniature sewing machines. There are houses here different countries. Japanese leaves a special impression doll house, it has authentic decoration. Children are allowed to open some of the houses themselves, which makes the tour interactive.

Fun for the boys

Quite often boys are not interested in dolls. Here's a toy one railway and mechanical dolls are very interesting to them. The museum also has such mechanisms, and they are quite old, but this does not prevent them from making a splash among the audience. Their capabilities are impressive. Among them stands out an old lady doll who knits a sock, and a young lady who blows soap bubbles. The guides invite viewers to guess the operating principle of the mechanism, and even respectable dads actively join in the discussion.

As a souvenir, you can purchase sets of creative paper dolls and colorful notebooks with photographs of exhibits that are in the museum. Long after visiting the Museum of Unique Dolls, girls enjoy looking at photos and trying on outfits on paper young ladies. Time flies by quickly in the museum and leaves behind the most pleasant memories. Moreover, the museum makes an impression at any age; everyone will discover something new there. And after the excursion you can take a walk in Chistoprudny Park, located nearby.

Address: Moscow, Pokrovsky Boulevard, 13/c2, nearest metro stations are Kitay-Gorod, Chkalovskaya and Kurskaya stations.

Opening hours:

• Tue - Sun – 10:00-18:00;
• Mon. - day off;
• lunch break – 14:00-14:30.

Ticket price

• 180 rub. - adult;
• 90 rub. – preferential.

All details can be found on the official website of the museum http://dollmuseum.ru.

The Moscow Museum of Unique Dolls is located on Pokrovka Street. The founder and director of the museum is a collector and theater artist Yulia Vishnevskaya. The museum contains unique dolls from the world's leading manufacturers in France, Germany, England, Japan, and Russia from the late 17th to the mid-20th centuries.

Finding the museum is very easy. Get to the metro Chistye Prudy. Then walk along Chistoprudny Boulevard, pass the pond and at the intersection turn right (there will be Pokrovka Street). Walk one house and go to the address st. Pokrovka, 13, building 2 and there will be a museum of unique dolls.

The museum is open from 10.00 to 18.00, break 14.00 – 14.30 daily, except Monday and Tuesday.
Ticket prices:
adult - 200 rubles, children - 100 rubles, photography - 200 rubles

There is a souvenir shop at the entrance to the museum. Dolls for sale self made, postcards, notepads and other souvenirs. There is also a small wardrobe at the entrance where you can hang outerwear

At the entrance, the museum curator will give you a short guide to the dolls.

English wooden house (1850)

It must be said right away that the museum is small - it’s just one room with display cases in which there are dolls.

On the right in the corner is an African boy. The doll was made in Germany in the late 30s of the XX century. On foreground two Soviet celluloid dolls (1950-60s)

In this display case there are dolls that "played" in animated films 30s of XX century.

Modern original dolls (England, France, Germany of the 20th century)

History of the museum: The talented theater artist Yulia Vishnevskaya once discovered an antique doll among old, forgotten things. This was the start most interesting hobby, which soon turned into the main work of Yulia Vishnevskaya’s life. She became a collector of rarities, antique dolls made no later than the beginning of the twentieth century. This is how a collection was formed more than 15 years ago, which today has become one of the most significant in the world. It was Yulia Vishnevskaya who stood at the origins of professional collecting of doll antiques in Russia.
In 1996, Julia opened the first and only Museum of Unique Dolls in the country. It immediately became a landmark and one of the centers cultural life capital, giving people the opportunity to see and appreciate the dolls, which are genuine works of art.

The dolls are carefully restored, dressed in clothes appropriate to the era of their birth, and then they find their place in the museum's exhibition.

Dolls from French factories: "Bru", "Jumeau", "Gautier". The doll in a boa with an umbrella in the center is a mechanical doll from the J. N. Steiner factory, the first manufacturer of walking dolls. If you lead such dolls by the hand, they will “themselves” move their legs and turn their heads. Almost all modern mechanical dolls (including Babri) use the mechanisms invented by Steiner.

The doll is dressed in military uniform Napoleonic era

In the right corner is a doll by the French master F. Gautier (70-80s of the 19th century). A special feature of this master’s dolls is the body made of thin skin - huskies and natural hair. This is a doll from the collection of the wife of former People's Commissar of Education A. Lunacharsky.

Dolls from the Kemmer and Reinhardt factory (Germany, late XIX V)

Dolls from German factories of the late 19th - early 20th centuries: "Ernst Heubach", "Baer and Proschild", "Schonau and Hofmeister", "Simon and Halbig"

Doll of the heir Tutti. Doll for the film "Three Fat Men" based on the novel by Y. Olesha, director: I. Shapiro, A. Batalov, Suok - Lina Braknite (1966). The Tutti doll was made by hereditary doll maker V.V. Malakhieva in 1965.

Porcelain dolls from Bru (France, mid-19th century)

Dolls from the Russian factory "Shraer and Fingergut", late 19th century.

A plush bunny is sitting in a chair :)

Dolls from the Schraer and Fingergut factory. Russia, late XIX - early XX centuries.

Japanese dolls in national clothes(early 20th century). On the left is a celluloid Kewpie doll. In 1926 it was donated to the Soviet opera singer Irma Jaunzem.

Porcelain dolls by German masters M. and H. Handwerk, late 19th - early 20th centuries.

Cast wax dolls from English manufacturers of the 19th century. Wax was the first material from which dolls were mass-produced on an industrial basis. However, this is a very fragile and short-lived material, and over time, in the middle of the 19th century. it was supplanted by porcelain.

English Tudor house (Fima "Tri-ang" by the Lines brothers, 1930s)

Dolls from the J.-D. Kästner factory, Germany

On the left in the background are two dolls made by the German master Kling at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries. In front of them are two dolls - "Harlequin" and "Columbine". On the carriage are dolls by German masters A. Schonau and K. Hoffmeister. The omnibus contains porcelain dolls from the German factory "Alt, Beck, Gottschalk"

Doll from the "Bru" factory - "Fashionable Lady" (1872). Such dolls were produced specifically to demonstrate fashionable outfits.

The porcelain doll was brought from Germany and given to Valentina Yastrebilova just before the war by her father’s friend. The doll's name is "Martha"
The mohair bear was given to Maya Kryzhanovskaya by her parents for her birthday in 1935.
The porcelain doll was presented to Elena Debolskaya's great-grandmother Yanina Chakts, who served as a housekeeper in the Polish princely family in Mogilev

The museum will be of interest to doll lovers, as well as all girls :)

This material is from the series “Know and love your city.”)))
My sister came to visit, and in good weather we decided to wander around the center of Moscow. Having reached the Pokrovsky Gate Square, we tried to find there at least something reminiscent of famous movie Mikhail Kazakov, then walked along Pokrovka and, suddenly, by chance, saw a poster small museum, which is located in a row of houses on a beautiful old street, in one of them. That's how we discovered Moscow Museum of Unique Dolls.

The history of this museum is as follows. It was created and opened by theater artist Yulia Vishnevskaya at the end of 1996. She is an avid collector of antique dolls, and has collected in her collection unique dolls from the world's leading manufacturers in France, Germany, England, Japan, and Russia from the late 17th to the mid-20th centuries.

The most “ancient” exhibit in the museum is a fragment of a doll’s dress, which dates back to 1650. The oldest doll was made of wood by an unknown German master at the end of the 17th century. Julia said in an interview that her collection began with a porcelain doll accidentally found in her great-grandmother’s chest. This doll museum is very small in area, but the museum exhibits more than three thousand exhibits. And in total there are twice as many exhibits in the museum’s collection (almost 6 thousand).

And the collection is constantly updated. Often, dolls are donated by their owners so that their “wards” can find them in the museum. new life. After all, the dolls are carefully restored by museum staff and dressed in clothes appropriate to their era. There is a museum legend that one morning museum employees found a package at the door that contained a unique German doll of the 19th century. Now she also lives on the museum’s stands.
The museum displays a variety of dolls. And interior (or boudoir) dolls that decorated living rooms, and wax dolls made by English craftsmen back in the 18th century, there is even a wooden peg doll from the end of the 17th century.

In the museum you can admire a doll with several faces (crying, laughing and sleeping), see, for example, 19th-century hairpin dolls - a lady in a wedding dress and a gentleman in a bowler hat, or a Dutch flower girl doll.

You have the opportunity to view many expensive porcelain dolls and unique jukebox dolls from France mid-19th centuries that are a joint creation puppet master Jumeau and watchmaker Lambert.

The museum also has mechanical dolls that move, wink, dance and blow soap bubbles. It’s a pity that there was no opportunity to see them in action... The museum is also proud that it is where the doll of Tutti’s heir from the famous film “Three Fat Men” directed by Alexei Batalov lives.

Unfortunately, there are very few antique Russian dolls in the museum, but the museum is proud that its collection contains dolls from the Zhuravlev and Kocheshkov factories, the Fedoseev and Dunaev factories. All of them are rarities, since by decree of the People's Commissariat of Education in the 1920s, dolls produced by these factories, and indeed ancient dolls in general, were confiscated and destroyed due to “excessive bourgeoisism.”

In addition to dolls, in the museum you can see entire doll houses made in various architectural styles, in compliance with the traditions of planning and decoration, with miniature furniture and household items. This is an English town house of the mid-19th century and a house in the Tudor style of the 30s of the 20th century, they were created by the first dollhouse maker in Russia, Pyotr Ivanovich Lukoyanov.

You can spend a very long time looking at the various items of doll life: cutlery and sets, which were previously made in the same factories that made dishes for people, as well as wardrobe items - clothes and shoes, hats and umbrellas, jewelry and additions to outfits.

There is also a small collection (not as extensive as we would like) dedicated to dolls in national costumes. But there is a whole Japanese doll house with its inhabitants.

It is located small, but very unusual museum— Museum of unique dolls. It opened in 1996 and today houses over 7,000 exhibits in its collections. Here you can see dolls from different eras and countries of the world, most of which are real works of art. Among them are original dolls, famous for their participation in Russian films and animated films. In addition, doll accessories are widely represented here: sets of dishes, houses, clothes and much more. Visit this amazing museum will add new colors to a walk with a child in the center of Moscow.

Such different dolls

As often happens, the collection came together by itself. It all started with an old doll found among antiques. Gradually in the 1990s, an entire museum grew from the collection. It presents not only toys for girls - dolls from France, Germany, England, Russia, Japan - but also for boys (soldiers, guns, doll military leaders).

The exhibition occupies one hall, along the perimeter of which glass display cases are lined up in rows in three tiers. This is not a very convenient solution, especially for young visitors who find it difficult to view the exhibits upper tier— but the small area of ​​the room did not allow us to organize the exhibition space differently. But here you have the opportunity to touch some toys, listen to how they sound, and see dolls from a completely different world of our great-grandmothers. The videos shown in the hall tell about rare mechanical dolls from the museum’s collection and show how they move.

IN large collection Soviet era special attention attracts the famous brownie Kuzya from the same name, as well as dolls in national costumes of the USSR. Brief signs on the display cases tell about the time of creation of the exhibits.

Everything is for real

There is hardly a girl who will not be indifferent to a visit to the museum. Indeed, in addition to wonderful dolls and pink-cheeked baby dolls, miniature furniture, clothes and shoes, hats and umbrellas, household items, silverware and sets are presented here. In miniature copy English home Tudor era you won’t find anything - a fully equipped kitchen, bedrooms, living rooms. Here you can also see original doll houses made by master Pyotr Lukoyanov. You can open some of them and carefully study the design of the rooms.

The collection of doll clothes opens visitors to the world of fashion of the 19th–20th centuries: fine brocade, lace, hand-beaded embroidery.

Museum activities

At the museum of ra There is a restoration workshop and a specialized atelier where collectors can help create decent outfits for their dolls. At the souvenir kiosk you can add a new rare item to your collection. The museum regularly participates in antique salons, holds exhibitions and charity events. To get the most out of your visit, it is recommended to use an audio guide.

The museum, created by Yulia Vishnevskaya, delights with its warm atmosphere, interactivity and friendly attitude. Perhaps that is why visitors often bring new exhibits themselves. One morning, museum staff found a unique 19th-century German doll at the door.