Sevastopol Art Museum named after M.P. Kroshitsky
About museum
The building was constructed at the end of the 19th century and was damaged during the Great Patriotic War. In the mid-1950s it was carefully restored. In 1925 paintings by Russian and Ukrainian masters of the second half of the 19th — early 20th centuries were brought from the State Museum Fund of the museums of Moscow and Leningrad. Works of art nationalized in the early 1920s from palaces and estates on the southern coast of Crimea were also added. In 1927 a picture gallery was opened. In 1965 it was renamed the Sevastopol Art Museum, and in 1991 it was given the name of Mikhail Pavlovich Kroshitsky. During the Great Patriotic War more than 1,000 valuable exhibits were evacuated from besieged Sevastopol; they returned in 1956.