Kurgan Regional Art Museum

Kurgan Regional Art Museum named after G.A. Travnikov was opened on August 14, 1982. It is one of the young art museums in the Russian Federation. In 2020, the museum was named after the People’s Artist of Russia, honorary citizen of the Kurgan region Herman Alekseevich Travnikov.

The museum collection is based on the collection of the art department of the regional local history museum. The museum funds store more than 10 thousand works of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied art, icon painting, handwritten and old printed books. These are examples of classical Russian art from the beginning of the XX century to the first decades of the XXI century, including the works of authors of the former republics of the USSR. The section of religious art includes exhibits of the XVIII - early XX century. The collections of Russian original and printed graphics contain works of the XIX - early XX century. Approximately a third of the collection represents the art of local authors.

The brand of the museum is one of the largest collections of watercolors in Russia, numbering more than 4 thousand works. Among the most popular museum projects by the audience and the art community are all-Russian exhibitions of watercolors, watercolor festivals “Aquafest”, master classes of leading Russian watercolors, interregional thematic exhibitions.

The museum is a platform for the implementation of creative ideas of young people and joint events with musicians and artists, regional philharmonic, theaters and libraries. The annual events “Night of Museums” and “Night of Arts”, children’s quests and theatrical complex classes, master classes for adults and children on experimental techniques of fine arts and decorative and applied creativity, multi-day classes “Children’s Creative Intensive”, open theme areas on the streets and in the parks of Kurgan are popular. For many years, the museum art studio for children “Rodnichok” has been successfully working.