Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

About museum

Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is the largest art museum in the Urals. Its founding year is considered to be 1936, although the history of its collections dates back to the last quarter of the 19th century and is linked to the activities of the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers (UOLE).
\r\nThe exhibition of Russian art of the 17th–early 20th centuries is expressive and diverse in its composition. The works presented sequentially reflect the main stages of development of domestic art of this period. The museum displays icon painting by masters of the Moscow school and the Russian provinces of the 17th–20th centuries, with particular attention given to works of local Ural iconography — the so‑called Nevyansk icon. Russian painting of the 18th–early 20th centuries is represented by works by such well‑known artists as V.L. Borovikovsky, V.A. Tropinin, A.G. Venetsianov, I.N. Kramskoi, A.I. Korzukhin, N.A. Yaroshenko, A.K. Savrasov, I.I. Shishkin, I.E. Repin, B.M. Kustodiev, K.A. Korovin, A.N. Benois, S.Yu. Sudeikin, K.F. Yuon and others.
\r\nThe extensive collection of decorative and applied arts of the Urals includes lapidary and faceting art demonstrating items of traditional Ural crafts from the 18th to the early 21st century, Zlatoust decorated weapons and steel engraving, the Nizhny Tagil painted tray, and original jewelry by recognized masters of the 1970s–2000s of the Ural and Moscow schools.