The most important art museum in Moscow occupies a white marble palace, southwest of the Kremlin. It houses a Department of Antiquities and an important Department of Paintings (including a collection of the French school from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with works by Poussin, Chardin, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Matisse ...).Hours of operation: Open from 10 am to 7 pm. Closed on Mondays and the last Thursday of the month....