Tula Museum of Fine Arts

The Tula Regional Art Museum was founded in 1919 in an ancient building designed by Tula architect P.M. Zaitsev. Today it is one of the largest regional art museums. Its funds store more than 23 thousand works of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied art and folk art. The main pride of the museum, which is of the greatest interest, are the works of outstanding Russian artists of the XVI-XX centuries.

Among them are the original paintings by A. Antropov, V. Borovikovsky, V. Tropinin, I. Aivazovsky, I. Shishkin, I. Repin, G. Myasoedov, V. Surikov, V. Polenov, I. Levitan, B. Kustodiev, V. Serov and many others. The museum contains rare paintings by artists of avant-garde trends of the 1910-1930s, among which you can note the paintings of V. Kandinsky, A. Rodchenko, L. Popov, D. Shterenberg and of course K. Malevich. A separate hall is dedicated to the works of modern Tula authors. In addition to Russian art in the art museum you can get acquainted with the collection of Western European paintings of the 16th-19th century. Among them are paintings by Italian artists L. Bassano, O. Sammacchini, L. Giordano, D. Fetti, Dutch masters C. Molenard and J. Wonck, French C. Vernet, E. Lesuer and G. Robert. In addition to painting, the museum houses an extensive collection of sculptures by Russian and European masters, as well as fine samples of glass and porcelain products from leading European and Russian factories.