The Head of the museum (since 2001) is Yelena Gagarina, daughter of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

There were 424,922 visitors to the Kremlin Museums in 2020, a drop of 86 percent from 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still ranked 46th on the List of most-visited art museums in the world in 2020.

Moscow Kremlin Museums have the following parts:

Kremlin Armoury (Оружейная палата)
Diamond Fund (Алмазный фонд)
Dormition Cathedral (Успенский Собор)
Cathedral of the Archangel (Архангельский собор)
Cathedral of the Annunciation (Благовещенский собор)
Residence of Patriarchs and Church of the Twelve Apostles (Патриарший дворец и церковь Двенадцати апостолов)
Church of the Deposition of the Robe (Церковь Ризоположения)
Ivan the Great Bell Tower (Колокольня Ивана Великого)

The Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum and Heritage Site consists of the Armoury Chamber and Cathedral Square. Within Cathedral Square is Assumption, Archangel and Annunciation cathedral, the Church of Laying Our Lady’s Holy Robe, the Patriarch’s Palace with the Twelve Apostles’ Church and the ‘Ivan the Great’ Bell Tower complex, as well as the exhibition halls in the Assumption Belfry and in on the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch Palace.

During Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the staff of the Kremlin Museum took it upon themselves to preserve the museum’s collections. During the invasion, many cultural objects were damaged, ruined, lost or relocated. The duties performed by the staff initiated the State Armoury Chamber as a national-historical museum.

The museum’s first exposition was open to visitors in 1814. Emperor Nicholas I changed the name of the museum to “The Moscow Armoury Chambers on the August 22, 1831.