Sochi Art Museum named after Dmitry Dmitrievich Zhilinsky

About museum

The museum building is rightfully considered not only the city-forming core of the town center, but also its main architectural monument of the 1930s. The building was constructed in 1936 to a design by Academician of Architecture I. V. Zholtovsky as the administrative and cultural center of the USSR VTsIK Commissioner for the resort city of Sochi–Matsesta. The history of the Sochi Art Museum began in 1972 during the building's reconstruction, and until 1988 the museum was called the Exhibition Hall of Fine Arts. During their work, the museum's researchers carried out active collecting. Thanks to this, many paintings from the 1920s–1950s were transferred to the museum's holdings from Sochi sanatoria. As a result of this systematic collecting, Ministry of Culture Resolution No. 158 of May 1988 granted the exhibition hall the status of an art museum. Today the museum holds more than six thousand items in its main and scientific-auxiliary collections.