The Museum was founded in 1894 by the famous industrialist and art patron Alexey Alexandrovich Bakhrushin (1865–1929) and based on his private collection of theatrical and manuscript memorabilia collected in the end of the 19th century.
In 1913, the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences donated the Museum, renowned as the Alexey Bakhrushin Museum of Literature and Theatre, to the city of Moscow. Later on renamed after his founder A. A. Bakhrushin, the Museum was under the jurisdiction of the Academy of Sciences during 1917.
Since 1918, the Museum was included into the system of governmental institutions and as a department of the Theatre Society was under the authority of the Narkompos of the RSFSR. The Museum retained the name of its director for life А. А. Bakhrushin and, in 1919, it was renamed and became the A. A. Bakhrushin State Theatre Museum. Since 1941, it has been bearing the present name and is one of the largest storages of documents on the theatre history of Russia, the USSR, and foreign countries. In April, 1997, the Museum was added to the list of the most valuable object of cultural inheritance of the Russian Federation.
The manuscript department was established in the Museum in 1935, later it was renamed and became the archive and manuscript department. Theatre programmes and bills, photographs and negatives, audiovisual documents and theatrical scenery items (including set designs, prints and other graphic art objects) are stored in the separate departments.
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The complex started taking shape in the late 19th century whe...
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