State Museum of Urban Sculpture

About museum

The State Museum of Urban Sculpture is the only museum in Russia dedicated to the study, preservation and restoration of monuments of monumental art in the open urban environment. The initiative to establish it belonged to the "Old Petersburg" society, whose activists were prominent figures in the arts. In 1932 the "Museum-Necropolis" was founded, and in 1939 it was reorganized into the Leningrad Museum of Urban Sculpture. Currently the museum presents more than 200 urban monuments and 750 memorial plaques. In 1987 a new exhibition space — the Narva Triumphal Gates — was opened. In 2002 a New Exhibition Hall was opened, hosting themed exhibitions, solo exhibitions by artists and sculptors, and contemporary art shows. In 2004 the studio of M. K. Anikushin was transferred to the museum, and in 2015 a memorial exhibition and a venue for contemporary exhibition projects were opened.