Alatyr Art Museum

The Alatyr Art Museum was opened on March 25, 1993, as a branch of the Chuvash State Art Museum.

The basis of the exposition of the museum were 200 paintings and graphic works transferred from the collection of the museum "Alatyr Museum of Local Lore", 32 works of the former People's Art Gallery stored in the children's art school, 53 graphic sheets of the artist-teacher D.S. Shuvalov. In 1995, the museum became an independent municipal cultural institution. Over the years of its existence, the museum fund collected about 2 thousand works of painting, graphics, sculpture, folk and decorative and applied art.

The Alatyr Art Museum presents the works of fellow countrymen and those whose life and creative activity were associated with the Alatyr Territory and the city of Alatyr from the end of the XIX century to the present. In the halls of the museum, the works of graduates of the Alatyr Art and Engraving School are exhibited: V.K. Bobkov, F.S. Bykov, V.D. Voronov, N.P. Karacharskov, O.A. Konyashin, V.M. Michurin, N.V. Ovchinnikov, L.P. Podlyasskaya, A.A. Prytkov, R.F. Teryukalova, V.K. Timofeev and others.

Many left a huge mark in the history of Russian and national art of Chuvashia, Mordovia, Tatarstan - V. Kudelkin, E. Nozdrin, S. Scriabin, B. Belousov, N. Kamenshchikov.