Chelyabinsk Museum of Fine Arts

About museum

Chelyabinsk Museum of Fine Arts is the only classical-style art museum in the Southern Urals. The museum's collection comprises more than 15,000 works of art, including world-class masterpieces — works by D. G. Levitsky, A. G. Venetsianov, I. I. Shishkin, I. K. Aivazovsky, I. K. Kramskoi, and I. I. Levitan. The museum also features Old Russian icon painting; works by Kasli and Kusinsky masters of artistic cast iron; items by Zlatoust craftsmen; metal engravings; and examples of lapidary (stone-carving) art. In addition, more than 20 exhibitions from leading Russian museums, the museum's own collections, and private collectors are held here. The museum's displays are housed in two buildings in central Chelyabinsk: on Revolution Square and on the city's oldest street (Truda Street). Visitors can see permanent exhibitions of Old Russian and Russian art of the 18th–20th centuries, Western European porcelain, and can also purchase paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and handicrafts by folk artisans.