National Portrait Gallery to be housed in former Lenin Museum | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire: “The National Portrait Gallery will be housed in the former Lenin Museum, Russian Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev said during a meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
‘This is actually an affiliate of the State Historical Museum; it is the former Lenin Museum. It is considerably large, with an exhibition space up to 1,000 square meters. This should be enough to start the gallery,’ Avdeyev said.”