Ryabushinsky_Museum_of_Icons_and_Paintings
Ryabushinsky Museum of Icons and Paintings
Art museum in Moscow, Russia
The Ryabushinsky Museum of Icons and Paintings is a private museum with a collection of more than 2,000 items, comprising Medieval West European paintings and encaustics.[1] Since June 2013, the building was closed for reconstruction, the Museum itself did a cultural, educational and research activities.[2] The Head of Museum is Nadezhda Vladimirovna Gubina.
The museum started from an exhibition in Amersfoort, Netherlands organised by Igor Vozyakov, a Russian entrepreneur and collector, maecenas, who donated to Ukraine an ancient icon "Protection of the Holy Virgin" (16th century).[3] The museum opened in 2009 in Moscow[4] with an exhibition entitled "Godlessness". It showed the early days of Communism and displaying photos of desecrated churches and slashed icons.