Museum of the History of Stone Cutting and Jewelry Art

Yekaterinburg. What to see? Museum of stone carving and jewelry art with emerald room.

The stone-cutting factory in the Urals was established in 1726 and made a huge contribution to the processing of stone, opened many techniques for working with stone to the world. You will recognize many vases of jasper, malachite and marble located in the halls of the museum, because a huge number of them were made for the best palaces of St. Petersburg and Moscow in the 18-19 centuries.

Visiting the malachite hall, you will learn how Ural malachite differs from African malachite, marvel at the work of talented Ural masters.

Malachite has always been for Ural masters a reserved, fairy-tale stone, much is written about it in the tales of the famous Urals Pavel Petrovich Bazhov.

Visiting the Bazhov Hall, you will learn many characters of the Ural tales in stone and paintings by masters from Palekh, donated to the museum in 2002. The paintings are written in the famous technique of lacquer painting.

The unique cut stones of the Ural masters delighted many crowned especially, close to the royal court of the Romanovs. After all, the cutting factory and multiple mines in the Urals belonged to the royal family. The factory created a huge number of donors from stone and unique jewelry. Many of them decorate the halls of the museum.

The hall of modern jewelry art will not leave anyone indifferent. The beauty of stone, silver and gold, citrines, pomegranates, alexandrites, jasper and quartz, emeralds and rauchtopazes has been inspiring Ural jewelers to create unique collections for more than one century.

A large number of figurines made of stone, animals and berries, Ural slides from gems of masters of different times, including modern ones, Alexei Antonov, for example, with his almost living sculptures, and you will find in the museum of stone carving art.

The Emerald Room, operating since 2015, talks about emeralds. The only emerald deposit in Russia is located in the Sverdlovsk region. Here you will see collectible samples and jewelry collections with emeralds.