Tchaikovsky House Museum, Central Russia, Russia
4.5 (214 reviews) Sunday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 2-3 hours Ranking #1 in Moscow Oblast Speciality Museums
A Very Special Place with Atmosphere and Heart
The Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve in Klin is the oldest memorial musical museum in Russia founded by the brother of the composer M.I.Tchaikovsky in 1894. Nowadays it is a unique monument-complex that has been completely preserved. It consists of the memorial house in which the composer lived and worked, the memorial park with the buildings attached to the house, the new building for the archives of the museum, the Concert Hall and also Frolovskoye, Maydanovo and Demyanovo Estates. Suburban town of Klin became part of musical culture history with the name of the great Russian composer spent the last eight years of his life in Klin and its environs. That was the most brilliant period of his creative genius when he composed his operas “The Sorceress” and “Cherevichki”, “The Queen of Spades” and “Iolanta”, ballets “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker”, the Fifth and the Sixth symphony.
Address
Chaikovskogo ul., d. 42 Metro Vodny stadion, Klin 141601 Russia
Mobile
Website
http://tchaikovsky.house
Working hours
Monday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Thursday :
Friday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 8:59
User Ratings
4.5 based on (214 reviews)
Reviews
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4Francois R 5:00 PM Feb 12, 2020
Interesting
Nicer estate, with the library and music instruments preserved. Audio guide is a must if you do not speak Russian, definitely worth the visit if you're around. From Moscow, a day trip is worth it especially if the weather is nice !
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4Ozjane 5:00 PM May 23, 2012
A must do for Tchaikovsky lovers...
We visited this attraction with a private guide in her car. I rather gather given the appalling traffic, she will, in future, take the train with her charges rather than drive. Nonetheless an interesting drive once off the freeways. We started in the shop/ticket office with a brief introduction and the purchase of what we considered to be mandatory souvenirs. (The timetable meant we wouldn't be back there) Then we walked to the house, now museum. The atmosphere was chilling, to think that he had lived here ...The room with a piano in it was remarkable and at one point we were asked to select a favourite piece of music and we sat as the music played and simply absorbed the atmosphere. Our tour continued with our private guide interpreting. We walked around the house, marvelling at the photos and the furnishings of our hero. Later we walked around the external buildings then into the garden. My favourite stop outside was an outsize park bench with a replica Tchaikovsky.While we were taking the inevitable photos, another tourist travelling alone asked us to take a photo of him leaning over the figure of Tchaikovsky. To our surprise he started humming; we found out that the document the figure is holding actually contains musical notes and he was reading them and humming the Tchaikovsky piece as we took his photo. After we left we went into Klin and looked at the restored stores then to a park behind where we enjoyed watching the families out enjoying a Friday evening. Really worth a visit, not just to the museum but to Klin to see a typical Russian town.
