Deyneka Gallery (Exhibition Hall)

About museum

Other artists' work is represented in the gallery and constitutes the highest example of dignity and beauty.

The Kursk State Art Gallery named after A. A. Deyneka is one of the significant art museums in Russia. Its collections preserve works of painting, sculpture and graphics by domestic and foreign masters of the 16th–21st centuries, and items of folk and decorative-applied arts of the 18th–20th centuries. In 1903–1905 donations were received from private individuals, including the Kursk governor N. N. Gordeev. In the 1920s the idea of opening a museum was implemented, and in 1935 about 200 exhibits were allocated to create the Kursk Art Gallery. Currently it houses more than 10,000 exhibits, including works of Western European and Russian painting, as well as works by Kursk artists. The gallery is so attractive that it represents the highest example of dignity and beauty. Since 1969 it has borne the name of the artist Alexander Deyneka.