Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Academy of Watercolors and Fine Arts of Sergey Andriyaki

The Academy of Watercolor and Fine Arts is the only Russian university that uniquely combines training in the new specialty “Paintings of Fine Arts” and active museum and exhibition activities. It includes the Museum and Exhibition Complex (MEC) in the status of a state museum, located on four floors of the Academy. The total area of the equipped halls is about 3000 m2.

The exposition core of the IEC is the Watercolor Museum, located on the 1st floor. Its exposition includes more than 200 paintings and graphics of outstanding Russian and foreign artists of the XVI-XX centuries, reveals many secrets and techniques of their work.

Over the years of existence (since 2012) The Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Watercolor Academy has established itself as a full-fledged exhibition platform in Moscow, regularly organizing large-scale inter-museum projects that have earned wide professional and audience recognition. Participation in them has long been the norm for Russian museums. Our regular partners are: State Tretyakov Gallery, Research Museum at the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Rosizo, Union of Artists of Russia, numerous regional museums.

IEC has a publishing department and its own printing house, equipped with modern equipment for digital and offset printing. The Academy publishes unique albums and books on fine arts, catalogs of the most significant exhibitions and accepts commissioned publications from third-party customers.