Vyatka Art Museum named after V.M. and A.M. Vasnetsov

About museum

On December 5 (18), 1910, the Vyatka Art Museum named after V.M. and A.M. Vasnetsov was opened — the first art-historical museum in the north and northeast of Russia. The founding of the museum and the formation of its collections are associated with members of the Vyatka Art Circle and with the art historian N. G. Mashkovtsev. The museum's collection comprises 22,410 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, icon painting, decorative-applied and folk art, and photography. Russian art of the 18th to the first half of the 19th century is represented by portraits by V. L. Borovikovsky, S. S. Shchukin, K. P. Bryullov, V. A. Tropinin; landscapes by S. F. Shchedrin, M. N. Vorobyov; and works by I. I. Shishkin, V. G. Perov, V. M. Vasnetsov, I. E. Repin, F. A. Vasilyev, V. I. Surikov and other artists. The museum also presents movements and creative associations in art of the late 19th — early 20th centuries, as well as monographic collections of artists native to the Vyatka region. The museum provides a comprehensive overview of 20th-century Russian art.