Krasnoyarsk Art Museum named after V.I. Surikov

In this ancient mansion of the early XX century architect V.A. Sokolovsky today is the central building of the Krasnoyarsk Art Museum named after V.I. Surikov. The museum was founded in 1957 and has been open to visitors since 1958. It was called the Krasnoyarsk Regional Art Gallery. Since 1983, it was renamed the Krasnoyarsk Art Museum named after V.I. Surikov and received a historical building in the Art Nouveau style in the center of Krasnoyarsk at 20 Paris Commune St. The collections of the museum contain collections of ancient Russian art, decorative and applied art, Russian art of the XVIII – early XX century, in particular the works of I.E. Repin, I.K. Aivazovsky, V.A. Tropinin, I.F. Khrutsky, A.A. Ivanov, A.P. Bogolyubov, K.E. Makovsky, I.N. Kramsky, I.I. Shishkin, etc.

A special pride of the museum is the extensive collection of paintings by V.I. Surikov - 78 works. The museum also houses a collection of twentieth-century art, including works by V.V. Kandinsky, K.S. Malevich, A.M. Rodchenko, L.S. Popova, I.E. Grabar, V.V. Lebedev, S.V. Gerasimov, etc. Most of the collection consists of works by Krasnoyarsk artists of different generations.