Description of the attraction
The Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is one of the most significant art museums in the Urals. The museum is located in the historic center of the city and is housed in two buildings. The first building is located along Vojvodina Street (XVIII century), and the second - along Weiner Street (1914).
The history of this cultural institution began in 1936. The basis of the museum collection was made up of receipts from the Sverdlovsk Museum of Local Lore. In the future, the collection was replenished with transfers of works from the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Hermitage, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Museum Fund, as well as from the workshops of artists and from private collectors. During the war, the gallery building was used to store the most unique collections of the State Hermitage Museum evacuated from Leningrad.
In 1988, the art gallery was given the status of a museum of fine arts. Since then, a purposeful activity has begun on the acquisition of the museum collection. Today, the Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg is a large cultural center, leading a wide educational, exposition, exhibition, collecting and research activities.
The funds of the Yekaterinburg Museum contain many unique monuments of both state and world significance, which include works of Russian art of the 18th - early 20th century. XX century, Russian art 1920-2000, Russian icon painting XVII - XX century, Western European art XIV - XIX century, Russian artistic avant-garde early. XX Art. and arts and crafts of the Ural region.
The Yekaterinburg Museum owns the country's largest collection of Kasli cast iron art casting, the center of which is the Kasli cast iron pavilion. The pavilion was created by the architect E. Baumgarten from St. Petersburg for the World Paris Exhibition, held in 1900. This architectural cast-iron structure is included in the list of historical monuments and culture of UNESCO.
