New Jerusalem's history, architecture and art museum was organized in 1920 within the precincts of the late "New Jerusalem" Resurrection (Voskresenskiy) monastery. It is one of the largest museums is the vicinity of Moscow. It stores enormous historical, cultural and artistic treasures (icons, embroidery, castings, manuscripts, rare books, documents, Russian and West-European paintings and drawings, pieces of applied arts). "New Jerusalem" Resurrection monastery is a unique phenomenon in Russian history and culture. The intention of its founder, patriarch Nicon (1605-1681), was really daring - to recreate the Holy Land of the Christians near Moscow. "Palestine" near Moscow was planned and realized as a grandiose architectural and landscape complex. Besides the monastery includes a forest-park area with springs, ponds, and canals adjoining the monastery rampart from the North and North-West, called the Gethemine garden.

At present "New Jerusalem" has been raised from the ruins which it was turned into by the war (the ensemble was vandalized in the winter of 1941). Since 1980 some monuments of wooden architecture were moved from different parts of the Moscow region and are exhibited in the park area of the museum: the Church of Epiphany, a peasant house-hold, a chapel, and a mill.

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