Armyansky Lane 3-5, Bld 1  

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"The Lights of Moscow" Museum. Information board on the gate to the left of the entrance
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Историческая справка

It is believed that the 17th century palace once belonged to the Miloslavskys who were mostly known for Maria Miloslavskaya, the wife of Tsar Alexei Romanov, but there is no documentary evidence in support of this theory.

At the end of the 1970s, the building was transferred to the "Mosgorsvet" company (Moscow City Lighting), and its director, Yuri Kharkevich, decided to set up a street lighting museum there. In December 1980, an exhibition was opened on the second floor of the old palace, and in 1984, after the reconstruction of the building, the "The Lights of Moscow" Museum began its work. Nowadays it is an independent organization.

The courtyard of the museum is open for visitors. In the street exposition you can see old oil, kerosene and electric street lamps. The museum itself contains archival and printed materials on lighting technology, the history of lighting, photographs and drawings of various kinds of lighting devices, visual materials on the history of Moscow.

The museum has also started a research project "Moscow Lanterns" to identify ancient lamps and lanterns preserved in Moscow, as well as to draw attention of the citizens to these unique objects. Historically, the lanterns created in the capital were unique, many of them were designed by prominent architects. But during the Soviet era, most of such lamps were replaced by standard ones. This situation existed until 2014. The project managed to draw attention of the city authorities to this problem. Due to this project historical lanterns may now be seen on the Kremlin and Sofiyskaya embankments, on Bolshoy Kamenny, Bolshoy Moskvoretsky and Borodinsky bridges, on the territory of VDNKh and in dozens of other streets.

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