About us

MORA Museum of International Art has gone through several transformations. Most recently, the museum changed its name from the Museum of Russian Art to MORA Museum of International Art in order to better reflect the museum’s politics, which always opposed the Russian government and since its founding has served as an intellectual-artistic hub for dissident and human rights activism. Earlier this year, we held a series of auctions to support Ukraine in this unimaginably difficult time in its history.

MORA was originally founded as C.A.S.E. Museum of Russian Art in Exile, and was paramount in introducing the art of Soviet émigrés to American audiences. With its core collection largely culled from human rights activist Alexander Glezer’s private holdings, the museum’s collection during its formative years was on a par only with that of Norton Dodge for that time.