Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F.A. Kovalenko

Krasnodar Regional Art Museum is the oldest in the North Caucasus. It was opened in 1904. Its founder Fedor Akimovich Kovalenko presented the city with his collection of paintings, books and archaeological values.

Currently, the museum fund has about 13,000 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied art. The collection of Russian art is represented by works from the main schools of icon painting - Novgorod, Moscow, northern - to the most daring creative searches of the 20-30s of the twentieth century, united by the common name "avant-garde". Particularly valuable areas presented in the museum’s collection are Russian avant-garde, Japanese color woodcut (XVIII – mid-nineteenth century), Dutch art of the XVI century, Russian and Soviet painting, as well as exlibris (XVIII–XX centuries).

Currently, the exhibition space of the museum is complemented by a virtual space using touch panels and an interactive book “Chronicle of Museum Life”. Pages of history”.