Permanent exhibition of the Novosibirsk State Art Museum

About exhibition

The Novosibirsk State Art Museum has been taking shape since 1958 as a traditional collection of classical and contemporary Russian art, supplemented by a small section of foreign art, which allows it to present the stylistic development and the genre and individual diversity of painting, graphic art, sculpture and applied arts from the 16th to the 21st centuries. The core of its collection comprises works received from the funds of the Ministries of Culture of the RSFSR and the USSR, from the reserves of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the State Hermitage, the A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Pavlovsk Palace Museum and other Russian collections. Highlights of the exhibition include works by D. G. Levitsky, V. A. Tropinin, I. M. Pryanishnikov, I. E. Repin, V. I. Surikov, A. Ya. Golovin, Z. E. Serebryakova, N. I. Mashkov, R. R. Falk, P. P. Konchalovsky, F. K. Yuon and N. K. Roerich. The foreign art section includes casts of ancient sculpture, graphic works and paintings by European masters of the 16th–20th centuries.