Exhibitions of the Serpukhov Museum

About exhibition

The Serpukhov Historical and Art Museum occupies a prominent place among Russia's regional museums, largely due to the richness of its art collection. It contains a number of first-class—and in some cases even unique—works that provide a fairly complete picture of the various stages in the development of national art and of the main Western European artistic schools. The museum's current exhibition of Russian art includes canvases by G. I. Semiradsky, A. A. Kharlamov, K. E. and V. E. Makovskys, N. A. Yaroshenko, I. K. Aivazovsky, A. K. Savrasov, I. I. Shishkin, I. I. Levitan, V. D. Polenov, V. V. Vereshchagin, and V. M. Vasnetsov. The Western European art section features paintings from the Flemish, Dutch, Italian, French and other schools of the 16th–19th centuries. Equally significant in cultural and historical terms are the sacred relics and icons, furniture, sculptures, graphic works, examples of decorative and applied arts and pottery, textile samples, rare books and documents preserved in the museum's collections and on display. The museum's art collection is housed in a 19th-century mansion designed by the well-known architect R. I. Klein and formerly owned by the Serpukhov merchants and manufacturers the Maraevs. The building is a cultural heritage site of regional significance.