Exhibition in the Orangery of the Tver Art Gallery

About exhibition

The palace orangery is an integral part of the architectural and park complex of the Tver Imperial Palace. Its construction is connected with the palace's reconstruction in 1864–1871 under the direction of architect A. I. Rezanov. The building was erected in the forms of the Louis XVI architectural style and was used for growing and forcing plants to decorate the palace and garden. A scientific restoration of the building was completed in 2021. Today it houses the exhibition halls of the art gallery and a winter garden. In the orangery's exhibition halls visitors can learn about the history of the palace garden's layout and view rotating exhibitions of graphic and decorative-applied arts. The winter garden features the exhibition "Plants of the Palace Orangeries", dedicated to the orangery's 150th anniversary (1870–2020). The "green collection" was recreated based on plant inventories from 1883 and 1908 found in the archives. In addition, visitors will see some masterpieces of the plant kingdom that were cultivated in other imperial residences — from the Northern Capital to the southern shore of Crimea. Visitors can learn here about the history of Russian palace orangeries, the development of the fashion for plants, and discover interesting old cultivars and little-known species of flowers that have survived as echoes of a glorious past, often only in Russia.