House-Museum of Academician Sculptor A.M. Opekushin

About museum

A two-story wooden house with a mezzanine, decorated with carvings, was built in the early 20th century by the local steamboat owner Ryabinin in the village of Rybnitsy, Nekrasovsky District, Yaroslavl Region. The site is associated with the name Opekushin, the brother of sculptor A.M. Opekushin. In 1913 the house was acquired by K.M. Opekushin for use as a plaster (modeling) workshop attached to the local zemstvo school. In 1915 the plaster workshop was named after academic sculptor A.M. Opekushin. In the 1920s the workshop was closed and the building was converted into a general rural school. During the Great Patriotic War it housed a children's home for evacuated children and a hospital for the wounded. After the war, until 1988, it was a collective farm cooperative producing haberdashery goods. In 1988 the house was transferred to the Yaroslavl Art Museum to create the House-Museum of Academician Sculptor A.M. Opekushin. In 2012 a permanent exhibition 'Master of Molding Crafts' was opened.