Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum

About museum

The Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum is one of the oldest museums in the Volga region, and it preserves an important cultural heritage of significance for all of Russia and the world. The museum's collection began to form in 1895 as the art section of the historical and archaeological museum of the Simbirsk Governorate. In the museum's central hall you can see masterpieces of Russian art of the 18th–19th centuries, including Dmitry Levitsky's famous "Portrait of Catherine II", works by Karl Bryullov, Alexander Ivanov, Ivan Aivazovsky, Dmitry Martynov and Konstantin and Alexander Makovsky. The museum's gallery presents rare works of Western European art of the 16th–17th centuries, including works by Spanish, Italian and Dutch artists. In honor of the Year of Germany the museum is presenting an exhibition of German artists of the 17th–19th centuries. Of particular note is a work by the master of secular and court portraiture Franz Xaver Winterhalter, which was for a long time kept in storage.