Exhibition 'Monumental Sculpture of Saint Petersburg'

About exhibition

On the first floor of the New Exhibition Hall a permanent exhibition, 'Monumental Sculpture of Saint Petersburg', has opened, telling the story of the museum's open-air collection. You will see models and designs of monuments, as well as works on paper from the museum's collection. Saint Petersburg is rightfully called the birthplace of Russian monumental sculpture. It was here that the national school of monumental sculpture originated and has developed over three centuries. Monuments, regardless of when they were created (despite stylistic differences), shape the city's artistic environment, offering a rare opportunity to see 18th-century sculptures alongside contemporary works that often revive images of the distant past. This dynamic connection between eras and the city's spaces became the main principle behind the 'Monumental Sculpture of Saint Petersburg' exhibition, whose central aspect is the opportunity to see, in one place (in the gallery), sculptural models and graphic works from the museum's collections representing the most striking examples of Saint Petersburg's monumental sculpture over three centuries.