Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts

About museum

Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts is the largest art collection in the Kaluga region. It was opened in 1918, and in 1969 the main building — the city estate of the Bilibins-Chistokletovs, an early 19th-century architectural monument included in the list of cultural heritage sites of federal significance — was assigned to the museum. Today the museum occupies the entire estate complex. In addition, the museum has several branches: the Tarusa, Ulyanov, Khvastovichi and Mosalsk picture galleries, as well as an information-educational and exhibition center. The museum hosts exhibitions, concerts, master classes and lectures, and there is also a virtual branch of the Russian Museum. The collection includes paintings, works on paper (graphics), sculpture, applied decorative arts and much more. Works by Russian and European masters, as well as notable artists from the Kaluga region, are represented. The Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts is an important center of the city's cultural life.