Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts

About museum

The museum opened on September 30, 1944. The gallery was created under the difficult conditions of wartime. Moscow and Leningrad provided Tagil with paintings from the reserve collections of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum, and specialists from Sverdlovsk helped to exhibit the works. The Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts houses an excellent collection of works of Russian art from the 18th to the early 20th century. Here you can see paintings by the famous Russian portraitists of the late 18th — early 19th centuries Vladimir Borovikovsky and Vasily Tropinin, seascapes by master Ivan Aivazovsky, modest provincial landscapes by the Peredvizhniki Ivan Shishkin, Alexei Savrasov, and Isaac Levitan, and fine portraitists Ilya Repin and Ivan Kramskoi. The Russian art exhibition (18th — early 20th century) also includes works connected with Nizhny Tagil — Vasily Raev, who lived on the Demidov estate at their invitation in 1837–1838, and Vasily Khudoyarov, a member of the famous family of Tagil painters of the 19th century. The true pearl of the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts collection is the painting "The Holy Family" ("Madonna del Popolo", "Tagil Madonna"), painted in 1509 and attributed to Raphael Santi. The museum organizes a large number of exhibitions; master classes are held every week, creative meetings and concerts take place, and there are art clubs. The museum is also embellished by the Park of Soviet Sculpture.