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Dear visitors, please be informed

The Moscow Kremlin Museums does not cooperate with any online ticketing platform. The tickets are available online at the museums' official website and at the official ticket office at the Alexandrovsky Sad (Alexander Garden). The Moscow Kremlin Museums do not guarantee you admission with tickets purchased at nonofficial websites.

Some notes on visiting the Armoury Chamber and Cathedral Square

The number of daily visitors to the Armoury Chamber is limited due to the capacity of the museum. Admission to the architectural complex of the Cathedral Square for tourist groups is also regulated acc to the schedule. The Museums do not guarantee admission for the visitors late for the session.

Frequently asked questions

 

Dear visitors!
Here you can find answers to frequently asked questions.

What are the working hours of the Museum?
  • In the summer period (from May 15 to September 30) the Moscow Kremlin Museums work from 10.00 to 18.00, in the winter period – from 10.00 to 17.00, the day off – Thursday. You can find information about changes in the working hours on the main page of our website.

How do I buy tickets to the Kremlin Museums?

  • Tickets are purchased at the museum’s ticket office on the day of the visit. If you want to buy tickets in advance, you can use the online service. However, it should be noted that "free" tickets cannot be purchased online.

 
Can I buy tickets online for the current day?

  • No, there is a ticket pre-sale on the website, a ticket for the current today can be bought only at the ticket office.

 

How much does a ticket cost? 

  • A full ticket to the Armoury costs 1000 rubles. A full ticket to the architectural ensemble of Cathedral Square – 700 rubles. Children under the age of 16 visit the Kremlin Museums with a free of charge ticket. Click here for detailed information.

 
If I only want to visit the Armory Chamber, do I have to buy a ticket to the Kremlin territory?
  • No, you just need to buy a ticket to the Armoury Chamber.
 

How can I get into the Kremlin?

  • The access to the Kremlin territory is through Kutafia Tower; the Armoury Chamber – through Borovitskaya Tower passage. There can be a queue at the security checkpoint, for the best experience, please arrive beforehand (30-40 min).

How can I go on a guided tour in the Museum?

  • You can purchase a tour on the Museum's website; there you can find different types of excursions:
    - for an organized children's group (22 children and 2 accompanying persons)
    - for a mixed group (max. 20 people). In this case, you pay for a guided tour and 10 tickets at full price beforehand. You purchase the remaining 10 tickets at the ticket office when exchanging the voucher, at the cost of the corresponding category of visitors - full or discounted ticket;
    - assembled group.

    When purchasing excursion tickets online, please read the User Agreement and Rules of settling an excursion, which defines the rights and obligations of the Customer and the Museum.
 
Can I change my ticket, change the date/time?

  • It is not possible to change the ticket or move the date/time. You can return the ticket and purchase a new one. Timeframes for refund depend on the type of ticket and are specified in the User Agreement.

 

Can I return a ticket paid for on the website?

  • Yes, to do so you need to fill in an application form and send it to tickets-vozvrat@kremlin.museum.ru. You can also fill out a refund request at the ticket office. Timeframes for refunds depend on the type of ticket and are specified in the User Agreement.

 

I want to buy a ticket/a tour online, but there are no tickets on the date I need.

  • You may not see tickets sale on the date and time you need in the following cases.
    - The sale of tickets and tours has not yet started. The sale opens 17 calendar days before the date of your visit. For example, on the first day of the month, the sale opens on the 18th, etc.
    - All tickets/tours for the date or time you need are already sold out.
    - The date you have chosen is Thursday. On Thursday, the Kremlin is closed to visitors.

 
The voucher is issued for me, can another person get tickets for it at the ticket office?
  • Only the person whose name is written in the ticket can pick it up. If for any reason you cannot exchange the voucher for tickets, the recipient of the tickets must have a power of attorney from you. However, if you have issued individual tickets for a museum visit as part of an assembled group, only those people whose name you specified in the order can receive them and go to the Museum. Moreover, each one can only get their own ticket.

I have several tickets in the electronic order, can I return only one of them?  
  • No, you can only return the entire order, that is, all the tickets included in the order. The refund period depends on the type of ticket and is specified in the User Agreement.
 
I have a small child. Can I go to the museum with a baby carriage or a stroller?
  • You can take a stroller.
 
I'm a wheelchair user. Is it possible to visit the Armory and Cathedrals? 
  • Yes, it is possible to visit the Armory and Cathedrals, but you need attendants who can help you mount the stairs. The Kremlin Museums are protected by UNESCO, so we are not able to reconstruct the stairs or install lifting devices to provide a more comfortable passage for the disabled. Your two companions are entitled to free of charge tickets.
 
Can I take photos? 
  • Please kindly understand that photography in the Armoury Chamber is forbidden in order to preserve the artefacts. Amateur photography in the museums-cathedrals, at displays and on the territory of the Kremlin is allowed without using flash and additional equipment. Video recording in is prohibited.
Are there any luggage storage facilities and any restrictions on the receipt of items?
  • The left luggage office for visitors of the Moscow Kremlin is located at the foot of Kutafiya Tower. It is open daily from 9:00 to 18:30 (on days of religious events in the Moscow Kremlin cathedrals - from 7:30 to 18:30, on days of theatrical and entertainment events in the State Kremlin Palace - from 9:00 to 23:00). Breaks: from 11:00 to 11:30 and from 15:30 to 16:00. Here you can find detailed information about the operating rules of the left luggage office and the list of things not accepted.
     
Is there a museum parking?
  • Unfortunately, there is not.

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Tickets and admission

Tickets and admissionThe Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum and Heritage Site incorporates the Armoury Chamber, monuments of the architectural ensemble of the Cathedral Square, including the Assumption, Archangel and Annunciation cathedrals, the Church of Laying Our Lady's Holy Robe, the Patriarch's Palace with the Twelve Apostles' Church and the 'Ivan the Great' Bell Tower complex, as well as exhibition halls in the Assumption Belfry and Patriarch's Palace.
Guided tours at the Moscow Kremlin MuseumsThe Moscow Kremlin Museums offer guided tours to get acquainted with the Kremlin, its museums, history and museum collections. They present general information about the architectural ensemble of the Kremlin, the treasures of the world-famous Armoury Chamber, ancient Kremlin’s cathedrals and the historical necropolis, wall-painting, collections of old-Russian icons and the Museum of Applied Art and Life Style of the 17th century Russia in the halls of the Patriarch's Palace.
Left luggage facilitiesThe baggage storage service is provided for guests of the Moscow Kremlin after presentation of the entrance tickets (or an invitation card) to the Armoury Chamber and other museums of the Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum and Heritage Site, as well as to the Grand Kremlin Palace, exposition of the State Diamond Fund, theatrical performances and other shows, carried out in the State Kremlin Palace, and religious events, celebrated in the Kremlin cathedrals.
Visiting the Diamond Fund, the Grand Kremlin Palace and Lenin's MausoleumThe Diamond Fund, the Grand Kremlin Palace and Lenin's Mausoleum do not refer to the Moscow Kremlin Museums
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Concerts

Music Festival "Tsars and Muses: Opera at the Russian Court"This year concludes the four-year Music Festival at the Moscow Kremlin Museums, which was dedicated to the development of Russian opera. The festival covers a wide period from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The project was launched in 2018 with a dramatised performance based on a play by Simeon Polotsky.
Concert series "Musical Gatherings in the Kremlin""Musical Gatherings in the Kremlin" is a new musical project of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, meant to become traditional alongside the proven and well-recognized festivals "Ambassadorial Gifts" and “Tsars and Muses: Opera at the Russian Court”.
VII Music Festival "Ambassadorial Gifts" ChicherinFestThe annual Music Festival "Ambassadorial Gifts" is dedicated to the exhibition project ‘The 100th Anniversary of the USSR: G. V. Chicherin and the Soviet Diplomacy’.
Music Festival "Tsars and Muses: Opera at the Russian Court"It is the fourth time, when the Moscow Kremlin Museums held the Music Festival "Tsars and Muses: Opera at the Russian Court". In 2022 it will be dedicated to "The Duel: From Trial by Combat to a Noble Crime" exhibition project and will refer to the highest achievements of the national opera school during its heyday, i.e. the second half of the 19th century.
Music Festival "Tsars and Muses: Opera at Russian Court"Music Festival "Tsars and Muses: Opera at Russian Court" will be held on 9 and 30 November 2021 at the Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin Museums. It will be dedicated to vocal and instrumental music of the epoch of Emperor Alexander I with the motto "Opera in glorification of the Fatherland".
VI Music Festival "Ambassadorial Gifts"The Moscow Kremlin Museums hold the VI International Music Festival "Ambassadorial Gifts", dedicated to the exhibition project "Decline of the Dynasty: The Last Rurikids and the False Dmitry", from 19th to 31th May 2021.
V Music Festival "Ambassadorial Gifts"The 5th Music Festival "Ambassadorial Gifts" is timed to the display held in the Moscow Kremlin Museums: Peter the Great. Collector, Scholar, Artist. The reign time of the tsar-reformer, the patron of arts and science, became a significant landmark in establishing the Russian artistic culture of the New Time.
THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL "AMBASSADORIAL GIFTS". RAFFINATA E BELLA. MUSICAL JEWELS OF ITALY.Traditional music festival "Ambassadorial Gifts" will run in the Moscow Kremlin Museums from 16th to 27th of November 2018 (established in 2014). This time we turn to an abundant and stylistically diversified Italian music covering the period of the 17th century when violin became the leading music instrument, the baroque epoch with its great Italian opera, as well as the time of fascinating melodies of 20th-century Italian cinema.
Concerts dedicated to the 'Saint Louis and Relics of the Saint-Chapelle' exhibitionUnique concerts dedicated to the exhibition project `Saint Louis and Relics of the Saint-Chapelle` will take place on the 4th and 21st of April 2017 at the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.
THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL "AMBASSADORIAL GIFTS"10, 14, 20 and 24 October 2016. The Music Festival is dedicated to the museum`s exhibition project "Elegance and Splendour of Art Deco. The Kyoto Costume Institute, Jewelry Houses Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels". The festival program includes four concerts, each one is an exclusive project: "Sergey Diaghilev`s Worlds. Les Saisons Russes", "Avant-garde Composer Igor Stravinsky", "Jazz Age. United States' Music of the 1920s" and "Musical Europe of Art Deco Epoch".
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Friendly museum

Accessibility and service for visitors with physical disabilities and health limitations in the Moscow KremlinInformation on accessibility and service for visitors with physical disabilities and health limitations in the Moscow Kremlin Museums.
Video materials for our guests with special needsWe’re offering a series of video material made especially for hearing-impaired.
'Certificate of Suitability' of a barrier-free access criteriaThe Certificate confirms the Moscow Kremlin Museums comply with accessibility requirements for visitors with physical disabilities and health limitations
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