Regional Museum of Fine Arts

Every city has a place that can be called heart and soul. In Stavropol, this place can be called the Regional Museum of Fine Arts. The more beautiful the city, the more beautiful its soul, and the Stavropol soul of the city is truly beautiful!

"Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts" was founded in December 1961 by order of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, opened to visitors in November 1962.

The initiative to create the museum belonged to the Board of the Stavropol branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR and art historian Boris Albertovich Bendik (1920-1993), who became the first director of the museum and was engaged in the first decade of its existence acquisition of the collection.

Located in the historical part of the city, the museum occupies three, connected into a single ensemble of buildings, which are architectural monuments of federal significance. In the past, these are merchant mansions built on the former Alexandrovskaya Street (now Dzerzhinsky Street) in the late 70s of the XIX-early XX centuries.

The Museum of Arts is the only one in the region with the largest art collection, numbering about twenty-five thousand genuine works of art representing Russian and foreign art of the XVI-XXI centuries. The museum has a collection of auxiliary, reproduction, archival funds, a collection of art photography. The museum is one of the most prestigious visiting cards of the Stavropol Territory. There is its own educational complex, which includes a library, a reading room, a methodical room, museum classes, where there are places for classes, drawing, there is a game corner for the youngest visitors. Classes on educational programs, museum pass are held here, which are designed for the aesthetic development of children and youth and assistance in the study of subjects of the humanitarian cycle.