Exhibitions of the Cultural and Educational Center "Hermitage-Urals"

About exhibition

The exhibition and memorial building of the "Hermitage-Urals" Center is located in the merchant Bardygin’s house, built in 1912. The building is a cultural heritage site and was transferred to the Sverdlovsk Art Gallery in 1936. It became the main storage site for the State Hermitage’s collections during the Great Patriotic War (World War II), which shaped the subsequent reconstruction concept: all three floors are in one way or another connected with the Hermitage, either through exhibitions or historically. On the first floor there is a hall for temporary exhibitions, including shows from the State Hermitage. The second floor houses a permanent exhibition of Western European art, much of which was gifted by the Hermitage to the Sverdlovsk Art Gallery (since 1988 — the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts) in gratitude for preserving its collections during the Great Patriotic War. The third floor contains a memorial zone dedicated to the events of the evacuation period.