Mstera Art Museum
About museum
On October 5, 1919, under the chairmanship of the well-known artist and academic painter, a native of Mstera — Fyodor Aleksandrovich Modorov, a decision was made to establish a museum at the Mstera State Art and Craft Workshops. In 1923, a "Museum of Church Antiquities" was organized in the Epiphany Cathedral of the former Epiphany men's monastery. In 1945 it was reorganized into the state Mstera Museum of Folk Arts and Crafts and the Mstera Local History Museum. In 1954 it was closed, and from 1975 to 1989 it functioned as a branch of the State Combined Vladimir–Suzdal Historical, Artistic and Architectural Museum-Reserve. Today the Mstera Museum of Folk Arts and Crafts is one of the largest museums in Russia.