"Icons on Spiridonovka House" is located in the center of Moscow. This cultural and educational center is located nearby mansion Ryabushinsky and chambers Granatny yard.

The museum was opened in 2009. It took a decade heading the museum Igor Vozyakovu in search of Orthodox values. Many relics were taken out several waves of emigration from Russia. They were scattered all over the world. There was a huge work on the search and acquisition of Orthodox relics. Collected over the years, the collection includes more than 2500 units - the undoubted masterpieces of icon painting skill. Among them: Hodegetria Georgia (15 in.), St. Nicholas (16th c.), The only surviving banners Tsar Nicholas II, the number of icons of 17-19 centuries, icons of the 16th century, Fayum portrait of the 4th century, a number of the accountant icons start 20th century.

The house icon is not just a museum, but also a cultural and educational center. Monthly themed exhibitions, a variety of lectures and workshops. Conduct classes for students Sunday shkol.Iskusstvovedy prepared an interesting program that interests not only children but also parents.

The first exhibition, which opened in October 2009, was called "Atheists. Was the Christ? ". She talked about the activities established in the anti-religious Soviet state commission to deal with "the priests, the church and religion" .In December opened a new exhibition - "Houses of the icon of the stars." Typically, these icons can only see very close to the family of people, friends. Famous people of the country have decided to transfer to the museum for a week their brownies relics to be able to see everyone.

On Christmas Eve, the museum held an amazing exhibition of church embroidery. Each of the works performed by masters of St. Tikhon's University, embroider over a year. They used the finest silk, silver and gold thread, a real pearl. Technology such embroidery was lost after 1917. Art embroideries restored paintings on preserved from the 15th century.