is very homely and comfortable. In this museum, the cat is not just a pet but a cult-figure of the house. The cat is an enigma which it is impossible to solve completely as it is the only animal which has been painted by artists from different schools, starting with realists and ending with avantgarde artists.
There are no stylistic boundaries in the Cat Museum and it is not important if an artist is well-known or not. Pictures from the beginning of the century stand next to modern drawings. There are exhibits made of clay and quartzite, wood and metal, batik and gold lace.
Her Majesty the Cat is shown either as a terrible but very lovely cat called Begemot, created out of different improvised materials, or as a kind-natured ceramic fish-cat, or as an evil witch woman who transforms herself into a cat. There are wonderful drawings with special magic. The "Lonely Bachelor cat" possesses this characteristic: the bright yellow pupil of the eye gently reflects the profile of a man and a woman.
But the most important showplace of the museum is the fluffy Siberian cat, which welcomes and sees off the guests. You can leave a message in the visitors' book by drawing "your own" cat.
The Moscow Cat Museum has existed in Moscow since March of 1993. The Gallery of modem Arts "INTER" is it's organizer.
The MUSEUM has collected everything, that is somehow connected with the theme of CAT in Art and Life.
The "INTER" Gallery has exhibition programme "CAT'S EYE", that is the base of the exposition, which includes different works of art: paintings, graphics, ceramics, batics, tapestries, costumes, applications, dolls, installations, etc.. which show the theme of CAT through the eyes of artists, presenting every style and trend of modem art.
The artistic part of the collection includes more than 1500 works of art and is constantly expanded.
The special part of the collection, that is the exhibition programme "WOMEN & CATS", shows the essence of the relations between the most exciting creatures of nature.
Besides that the collection of the CAT MUSEUM includes following items:
books, souvenirs, photographs, films, cartoons, toys, post-cards, different subjects connected with cats and many other things.
The elite cat-shows, auctions and saling exhibitions of the works of art devoted to CAT, the contests of songs about cats, the cat film festivals, the show of theatre and dancing groups, the demonstrations of cats' fashion, perfomances are taking place in CAT MUSEUM as well as unique annual beauty contest "WOMAN & CAT" (where the jury evaluates the beauty and grace of the pair -woman and cat) and the contest "CHILDRENS' PICTURES OF CATS" (where the kids' pictures from all Russia and CIS take part, and the best of them are including to the children collection of the CAT MUSEUM).
CAT MUSEUM takes part in large international cat-shows, organizes the exhibiting of it's own collection in different places of Russia and abroad.
We would be happy to show our collection in different countries abroad and invite all the cat-lovers to the cooperation with us.
The contact address of the CAT MUSEUM is:
Andrei ABRAMOV & Ekaterina EFIMOVA
P.O. Box 6 121552 Moscow Russia
Tel/fax: (095) 141-5455
WE SALUTE ALL CAT'S FANS
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