The Collection of Film Posters dates back to 1986. As of the beginning of 2011, the Collection comprises almost 20,000 items.

The earliest posters in the Collection date back to 1908: one is a poster for the Electrotheater at Nevsky 86 and the other is an advertisement for the Cinematographic Soiree in Tsarskoye Selo.

The 1920s posters to films that later became part of the world’s cinematographic heritage are real masterpieces of the poster art. The most outstanding of them are works by Vladimir and Georgy Stenberg to films by Dziga Vertov, The Eleventh Year and A Sixth Part of the World.

The Collection comprises numerous posters dating back to the 1920s and 1930s. It also includes examples of typography advertisements published not only in capital cities of Moscow and Petrograd (later, Leningrad), but also in provincial towns such as Rostov-on-Don, Chistopol, Astrakhan, and Yevpatoria.

The comprehensive collection of posters from the 1930s-1950s contains advertisements for the most popular films of that time, including Jolly Fellows, Circus, Volga-Volga, and many others.

The poster art particularly flourished in the 1960s. This part of the Collection comprises the best works by Lilia Levshunova and Yuri Tsarev.

In addition to the prints collection, the Museum also keeps original posters by Sergei Datskevish, Mikhail Romadin, Sergei Zhmurenkov, and other artists who worked at the Reklamfilm factory in the second half of the 1980s.

The Film Museum maintains a good relationship with its international peers and exchanges duplicates with film museums from other countries adding French, Finnish, Polish, and Indian posters to its collection.