Ural Art Museum

About museum

The Ural Art Museum is one of the rare museums in the country whose activities are based on collecting and exhibiting contemporary regional art. The Ural Art Museum is a collection of paintings, works on paper, sculpture and decorative-applied art, including jewelry, by Ural masters of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The museum is housed in a regional architectural monument from the last quarter of the 19th century — the Kazantsev Merchants' House. After extensive repair and restoration work, it was opened in May 2006. The museum's exhibition space consists of 13 halls arranged in a convenient enfilade layout. The museum features permanent exhibitions "Masters of Ural Art" and "Artistic Jewelry", as well as temporary thematic and solo exhibitions. The Ural Art Museum includes the memorial studio of A.A. Kazantsev, where items from the Ural artist's workshop are kept, including an etching press, a flatbed printing press and the printmaker's tools, which allows museum staff to discuss printmaking in a hands-on way. The museum's collection, numbering more than 5,000 objects, showcases the work of many leading Ural artists: Ivan Slyusarev and German Melentyev, Alexander Burak and Nikolai Chesnokov, Gennady Mosin and German Metelev, Vitaly Volovich and Misha Brusilovsky, Boris Semenov and Lev Weibert, Andrey Antonov and Lyudmila Kruzhyalova.