Underground Museum

About museum

The Yekaterinburg Underground Museum opened its doors on April 28, 2022. The museum was created on the basis of Pavel Neganov’s private collection. The museum’s exhibition features more than 1,000 works by masters of the Soviet artistic underground. The exhibition is divided into themed halls showcasing works by artists from Sverdlovsk, Moscow, Leningrad and Odessa. The museum’s collection is a kind of encyclopedia of Soviet nonconformist art of the 1960s–1980s. For the first time, the metropolitan and provincial underground are presented together on one site. The museum displays works by world‑renowned artists, including works by Oskar Rabin, Ilya Kabakov, Oleg Tselkov, Viktor Pivovarov, Vladimir Sterligov, Evgeny Rukhin, Anatoly Zverev, Timur Novikov, Vladislav Mamyshev‑Monroe and others. A significant part of the collection is the art of the Sverdlovsk underground, which had its own vivid history. The exhibition includes works by Valery Dyachenko, Anna Tarshis (Ry Nikonova), Evgeny Arbenev, Vladimir Zhukov, Valery Gavrilov, Oleg Yelovoy, B.U. Kashkin and other Ural artists. An introduction to the museum’s collection offers insight into the variety of artistic pursuits of Soviet‑era masters and artists of the 1990s, whose works are also included in the exhibition. The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions and an events program (concerts, lectures, performances, plays, etc.).