Museum of the Kirillov Monastery

The museum occupies the building of the Refectory with the Cookery and the Church of the Archangel Gabriel.
The first attempts to create a museum here date back to 1906, but this initiative did not find support in the monastery authorities. In 1919, restoration work began at the monastery, but the museum was opened to the public only in 1924. The museum had an architectural, historical, artistic and, of course, anti-religious orientation.