The second building of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is located at: Ermolaevskiy lane, 17. In the Soviet times the street was renamed in honor of the classic Soviet architect I. Zholtovsky, and now it returned to the historical name.
Its name Ermolaevsky Lane got by title of the Church of the Holy Yermolay “that in Goat swamp”, built in the XVII century. Now here passes Kozikhinskiy Small alley. The house in which the museum is located, designed by D. Markov in 1915 for the Moscow Architectural Society on Architects deposits. This building housed the company until 1932, when it was dissolved. Newest its chairman from 1922 to 1932 was a Moscow architect Shchusev. In Soviet times, the house belonged to the Moscow Artists Union, were held here youth exhibitions, and creative workshops were settled. Stylistically building belongs to once popular neoclassicism, which replaced modernism.
December 3, 2003 the building was opened to the public as the exhibit space of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Today halls in Ermolaevsky Lane – are ones of the most popular exhibition spaces in Moscow.
