Gallery of Foreign Art named after M. F. Gabyshev

About museum

In 1970, a branch of the art museum — the Museum of Western European Art — was opened in the former building of the Yakut district treasury, built in 1909. In 1995 it was renamed the Gallery of Foreign Art named after Professor M. F. Gabyshev. The main part of the gallery's collection is a priceless gift — more than 250 works of Western European art of the 16th–19th centuries from the family collection of the well-known Yakut scholar, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor Mikhail Fedorovich Gabyshev. In addition, items were received from the funds of the Museum of Art of the Peoples of the East: small sculptures in bronze and bone, porcelain, cloisonné enamel objects, and scroll paintings by masters from Japan, China, Tibet and Mongolia of the 17th–20th centuries. The Gallery of Foreign Art named after Professor M. F. Gabyshev has become a true monument of art and culture.