Dear Friends!

The long-awaited repair and restoration work in the museum has already begun and is in full swing now. Seven cultural heritage sites of the Museum will be gradually restored within 2024-2025. These works are intended not only to prolong the life of wooden buildings, some of which have never been restored before, but also to make all the objects and their expositions available for year-round visiting in the future. For instance, the “Fire Engine Shed " will be open again after a fifteen-year break.

Restoration is not a good reason to cancel your trip to the museum, anyway!

After moving to Melikhovo in March 1892, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov described the family's first days at the estate as follows: "We are busy cleaning, washing, painting, and renovating..." These words referred to the main building of the Melikhovo estate. It was this Main House, which had been well renovated and made comfortable. It became the long-awaited home for the Chekhov family after fifteen years of living in Moscow rented apartments and country dachas.

Today, 132 years later, the same ever-busy atmosphere still prevails in Melikhovo.

However, we have to inform you that currently, the expositions of the "Main House", "Kitchen Wing", and "Russian Bath" are closed for visiting. Anyway, you can visit the following places in the usual way: the grounds of the estate, the expositions of the Ambulance Station, the Melikhovo School, and literary exposition “The Writer's Kitchen" ("The Writer's inner workings”) as well as the interactive site "Weather Station Melikhovo". Recently the exhibitions "Marriage Fever" and "Tuberculosis — the struggle between body and spirit" have been prolonged for visiting.

Besides that, a new interactive exhibition "Chekhov's Drawings" is underway for opening.

At the same time, since the Main House of the Chekhov estate is closed for restoration from November 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025, we are pleased to inform you that its furnishings and exhibits have temporarily moved to our exhibition hall during this period of time.

Today we are happy to invite you to see the Chekhov house rarities on a display "My dear and honoured ... House!" The exhibition is open from December 1, 2024. In fact, this is a unique and rather rare opportunity not only to see all the major exhibits from the Melikhovo main collection, which describe the life of the Chekhov family at this estate, but also to examine individual objects from the Chekhov Museum fund up close and in detail, since they were not in the approved display settings of the memorial exhibition.

As it was before, you can walk around the memorial landscape, visit the museum on your own or with a guide together with a group of random or individual visitors, take part in interactive, educational programs, master classes, concerts and take part in many other museum projects.

The Melikhovo theater "Chekhov Studio" also invites you to enjoy weekly repertory performances as well as Theatrical Saturdays. In addition to this, our theater is staging a new very kind and prankish play for young viewers for Christmas trees celebrations in Melikhovo.

We are looking forward for your visiting our beloved Melikhovo!

We hope to see you soon!