Chuvash State Art Museum

The museum has a significant collection of works of domestic and foreign art. There are exhibitions, excursions, lectures, meetings with the creative intelligentsia, presentations, concerts.

In 1939, the Chuvash State Art Gallery was established, which separated from the department of the IZO of the Local History Museum. The basis of its funds was 293 works of painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative and applied art of artists of Chuvashia, Russian and Soviet masters. This event was timed to the opening of the exhibition in the then inactive Vvedensky Cathedral. By the end of 1939, the art gallery had 1,036 items of storage.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the gallery funds were preserved.

In 1972, the former mansion of F.P. Efremov was transferred to the art gallery. In the 1980s, expeditions to Chuvashia, the regions of compact Chuvash residence laid the foundation for the collection of Chuvash folk art. In 1985, the Cheboksary hosted the VI Zone Exhibition "Big Volga". According to the project of architect V.D. Shatilov, a new three-storey building was built. The gallery was renamed the Chuvash State Art Museum. The new building housed a permanent exposition of Chuvash fine art, and in the old “Efremovsk” mansion exhibited works of Russian and Western European art of the XVII – early XX century.