Past Exhibitions

Spies and Space: Cold War Artifacts from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain

An exhibition by SuperMonster市City! and The Museum of Russian Art This exhibition features toys, games, posters, comic books, and other cultural artifacts on loan from SuperMonster市City! (SMC), developed in collaboration with TMORA using objects from its permanent and research collections. More than two hundred objects on display date to the Cold War era (1950s–1980s) and were produced on both sides […] Read more

Frenemy Moments: Soviet-American Conversations in Cold War Photographs

Showcasing fifteen historical photographs from the period of the Cold War, the exhibition focuses on the complex engagement between the two major powers: the US and the USSR, that went beyond hostile rhetoric and deep-seated mistrust. A 1974 summit of Soviet leader Brezhnev and President Ford, a Pepsi-Cola factory in southern Russia, paintings from the […] Read more

Rare Ornaments from Mid-Century Russia

Nestled within The World of Russian Fairy Tales exhibition is another enchanting realm: vintage tree ornaments from Soviet-era Moscow. A hundred ornaments and related artifacts from the late 1930s–1960s are on view at TMORA through January 25, 2026. The displays include a decorated feather tree, a miniature tree from the Khrushchev era, and an armada […] Read more

Nadezhda Glazunova: Festive Art

This exhibition presents twenty-four watercolors by Nadezhda Glazunova. Professionally painted in the style of folk art, these delightful images feature traditional holidays in a Russian village and lifecycle events marking key transitional points in a peasant’s life, such as a wedding or a baptism. Glazunova’s book illustrations are included, as well. The paintings were brought […] Read more

Two Siberian Artists at the End of the Soviet Era

TMORA presents forty paintings created by two Novosibirsk artists at the end of the Soviet epoch. Not a lot of art reaches the Western Hemisphere from Siberia. This remarkable collection was brought to the US by American artist Kevin H. Adams who was invited by the Soviet government to tour Russia in 1989 with an […] Read more