Alexei Șciusev House-Museum · Casa-Muzeu „Alexei Șciusev"

The house where the architect Alexei Șciusev (1873-1949) was born and spent his youth, on the street that now bears his name, turned into a museum. One visitor describes it as a five-room family home holding original family artifacts alongside the architect own sketches and manuscripts. The same visitor sums up his path: a fascination with art from childhood, studies in Chișinău, Saint Petersburg and later Europe, a career begun restoring and designing churches, and after 1917 landmark works across the Soviet Union, among them Lenin Mausoleum, the Kazan Railway Station in Moscow and the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Tashkent. He also led the reconstruction of Chișinău after the Second World War, but died before his plan for the city was approved. That very reconstruction plan, never realised, is called by one visitor the highlight of the exhibition. The museum is small, and the guide is praised as knowledgeable. Closed on Monday and Saturday.