Armory chamber - the treasures of Russian kings collected in Moscow Kremlin
The Armoury Chamber, a treasure-house, is a part of the Grand Kremlin Palace’s complex. It is situated in the building constructed in 1851 by architect Konstantin Ton. The museum collections were based on the precious items that had been preserved for centuries in the tsars’ treasury and the Patriarch’s vestry. Some of the exhibits were made in the Kremlin’s workshops, others were accepted as ambassadorial gifts. The museum was named after one of the oldest Kremlin’s treasury stores.
ARMORY CHAMBER on the Kremlin grounds contains a unique collection of Royal jewelry including thrones, crowns. Carriages, costumes, gold and silverware, all lavishly studded with precious stones. It is the most fascinating museum of Russian applied and decorative art, which reflects customs, traditions and manners of the Russian nation.
The Armoury Chamber preserves ancient state regalia, ceremonial tsar’s vestments and coronation dress, vestments of the Russian Orthodox Church’es hierarchs, the largest collection of gold and silverware by Russian craftsmen, West European artistic silver, ceremonial weapons and arms, carriages, horse ceremonial harness.
The State Armoury presents more than four thousands items of applied art of Russia, European and Eastern countries of IV-early XX centuries. The highest artistic level and particular historical and cultural value of the exhibits have made the State Armoury of the Moscow Kremlin a world-wide known museum.
What can you see?
Hall 1. Russian gold and silverware of the XIIth to early XVIIth century
Hall 2. Russian gold and silverware of the XVIIth to early XXth century
Hall 3. European and Oriental ceremonial weapons of the XVth to XIXth century
Hall 4. Russian arms of the XIIth to early XIXth century
Hall 5. West-European Silver of the XIIIth to XIXth centuries
Hall 6. Precious textiles, pictorial and ornamental embroidery of the XIVth to XVIIIth century. Russian secular dress of the XVIth to early XXth century
Hall 7. Ancient state regalia and ceremonial objects of the XIIIth to the XVIIIth century
Hall 8. Ceremonial horse harness of the XVIth to XVIIIth centuries
Hall 9. Royal carriages of the XVIth to XVIIIth century
