It is located between the Park Kultury and the Oktyabrskaya underground stations. The largest open-air sculpture museum in Russia, it has over 1,000 artworks currently in its collection.

The origins of the English-language exonym “Fallen Monument park” are unknown; Russian-language speakers either simply call the park the Sculpture Park of the Central House of Artists or reference its legal title, Muzeon Park of Arts.

The Muzeon sits on the former site of the All-Russia Agricultural and Industrial Craft Exhibition, which was constructed in 1923. In the middle, young architect Andrei Burov built a soccer stadium. Vladimir Lenin visited the exhibition during his last trip to Moscow, three months before his death. Lenin was driven in a car past pavilions designed by Konstantin Melnikov, Vladimir Shchuko, and Vera Mukhina, before departing for the estate of Gorki, where he died.

The Krymsky Bridge, the first cable-stayed bridge in the Soviet Union, was built under Joseph Stalin in 1938. The granite Krymskaya and Pushkinskaya embankments were laid down shortly thereafter. Until the late 19th century, there had not been any embankments, just river banks reinforced with paving stones.

During the Great Patriotic War (also known as the Eastern Front of World War II) military hardware and anti-aircraft weapons were stationed near Krymsky Bridge. By the late 1940s, a vast, empty space had appeared that became the city’s largest snow-dumping ground.

Architects proposed different suggestions for this site such as the Academy of Sciences to the Palace of the Soviets, however Culture Minister Yekaterina Furtseva insisted that Central House of Artists be built on the site. Construction on this project broke ground in 1965 amidst wooden shanties. The square around CHA was built in the 1980s.