Irbit Museum and Exhibition Center

About museum

The Museum and Exhibition Center is the first venue of the Irbit State Museum of Fine Arts, where for 32 years, from 1974 to 2006 (until the opening of the Museum of Ural Art), the entire life of the museum was concentrated: collections management and preservation, exhibition activities, and educational and research work. All exhibitions—both from the museum’s own collections and traveling shows—were held here; all events were organized here, including seminars and press conferences with specialists from museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Today it is a space for temporary exhibitions: exhibitions from the museum’s own collection and visiting shows are held in the center’s four halls. Another hall—the “Vishneviy” (Cherry) Hall—is used as an auditorium with 60 seats, and also for exhibitions, concerts, and film and video lectures. In the “Vishneviy” Hall there is an exhibition dedicated to the history of the museum, “Half a Century of the Irbit Miracle,” which presents archival documents, photographs, posters, and video films that reveal the milestones in the founding and development of the now widely known museum from the Ural hinterland. The Museum and Exhibition Center houses the information technology department, whose functions include preparing electronic versions of all the museum’s publications: catalogs, albums, brochures, posters, invitations, and press releases.