How to get into the Armory

Visit the Armoury chamber at the following sessions: 10:00, 12:00, 14:30, 16:30. Day off – Thursday. Tickets can be purchased at the ticket office of the Kremlin 45 minutes before the start of the session. The ticket without any discounts costs 700 rubles. Benefit have schoolchildren, students and pensioners (Russian citizens) – upon presentation of relevant documents, the ticket will cost 200 rubles. On Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, parents with children can visit the Armoury chamber family weekend ticket. If you do not have more than 2 adults and 2 children, the ticket price will be 200 rubles per person. And every third Monday of the month all Russians under the age of 18, can visit the Armory chamber free.

The Armory consists of 9 rooms, containing approximately four thousand works of art of Russia and foreign countries of IV - early XX century. Unfortunately, to remove the camera and take pictures in the Armory is strictly forbidden. But all visitors have the opportunity to use the audio guide, as well as to obtain additional information from the installed in the Armory for touch-screens. In addition, the Armoury chamber of the Kremlin offers a personal pocket guide which will show plans of rooms and floors, picture Windows and exhibits, and will also give you full information on the exhibition.

If you for some reason are unable to go to the Kremlin or just want to expand your knowledge about the Armory, check out the website of the Moscow Kremlin. Along with other virtual tours you will be offered a Walk at the Armory for the second half of the nineteenth century http://kreml.ru/ru/virtual/exposition/ArmoryIIhXIX/. A collection of unique photographs of the chamber taken in the late nineteenth century and held in the archives of the Moscow Kremlin Museums.