The Museum of Russian Icons opened in October 2006 in Clinton, Massachusetts, United States. The non-profit museum was created by collector Gordon Lankton to house his extensive collection of Russian icons. Lankton was president and is currently chairman of NYPRO, a billion dollar sales plastic molding company headquartered in Clinton with offices and manufacturing facilities across the globe. His Russian icon collection consists of over 500 icons and other religious artifacts from the 13th century to the present, and covers almost the entire range of Russian icon images, symbols and forms. It is one of the largest private collections outside of Russia and the largest in North America.
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