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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-36Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei keramiki i “Usad'ba Kuskovo XVIII veka” (GMK i “Usad'ba Kuskovo XVIII veka”)Previous names
The museum was founded in 1919 on a country estate, which had belonged to the Counts Sheremetev since the beginning of the seventeenth century and which was nationalized in 1917. The palace was built between 1740 and 1770 by the serf architects F.S. Argunov and M.F. Mironov and others. In 1932 the Ceramics Museum, which had been founded as part of the Kremlin museum complex in 1918 on the basis of nationalized private collections (those of A.V. Morozov and I.K. Zubalov, among others), was transferred there from Moscow and the two museums were combined. The present name of the museum dates from 1938. In 1979 within the Estate Division of the museum, a fond of rare documents was formed, which was later renamed the Fond of Rare Books and Rare Documents (Fond redkikh knig i redkikh dokumentov). |
