Exhibition 'Milestones of Art'

About exhibition

At the Romanov Museum, the permanent exhibition 'Milestones of Art' presents works of art from various periods of Russian art. The exhibition is arranged across seven halls. The central hall features portraits of members of the Romanov dynasty (some works are on loan from the 'Imperial Hall' of the Arkhangelskoye museum-estate). Of particular interest to visitors is the exhibition devoted to Old Russian art of the 16th–19th centuries, titled 'Icon on Carving'. This hall displays devotional painting, sculpture and copper-cast works. The exhibition continues with halls dedicated to Kostroma noble portraiture of the 18th–19th centuries, landscape painting, art of the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, and halls devoted to the Russian avant-garde and socialist realism of the 1920s–1930s. The halls also exhibit decorative and applied arts that reflect the stylistic features of their eras: porcelain, ceramics and glass from the 18th–20th centuries. The unique art collection of the Kostroma Museum-Reserve is known in many countries. Works from the museum's collection have been repeatedly shown at international and Russian exhibitions. At the permanent exhibition 'Milestones of Art', residents and visitors of Kostroma can become acquainted with unique and outstanding masterpieces of painting, sculpture and decorative and applied arts.