All-Russian Museum of decorative, applied and folk art is on the street Delegate. The territory, which houses the Museum, was given to the Lukyan Stepanovich the Cuisine. In the first half of the 18th century Vasily Streshnev began to build the estate. He bequeathed it to count Ivan Andreyevich Osterman. It then became the property of count Osterman – Tolstoy. In 1834 he sold it. In this manor there was the Moscow theological Seminary. Ivan A. Osterman rebuilt the house in the spirit of classicism. In 1786, all the buildings of the estate became stone, and the main house is three - storey. Two-storey wings were connected to the house by covered walkways. In the front yard there were two decorative pond. The layout of the estate has been preserved to the present time. The architect of the Palace, presumably, belonged to the school of M. F. Kazakov.

In 1981 he founded the all-Russian Museum of decorative, applied and folk art. In the Museum's collection are works of decorative-applied art of the 18th-20th centuries. In 1999, the Museum collection was formed through the merger of the all-Russian Museum of decorative, applied and folk art and Museum of folk art. S. T. Morozov, as well as library and archival funds of the research Institute of art industry.

In the collection of the Museum includes private collections: collection of decorative metal G. A. Kubrakov, the collection of Russian, Oriental and European fabrics N. L.Sebulsky, porcelain collection M. V. Mironova and A. S. Menaker. The Museum presents works of decorative art, Russian art Nouveau M. A. Vrubel and S. V. Malyutin, golovine, S. T. Konenkov, N. And.Andreev and others, and also has a large collection of Soviet art 1920-1950's. Only the Museum houses over 120,000 thousand exhibits.