State Regional Art Museum "Liberov-Center"

Unique in its essence, the Liberov Center Museum was created on June 14, 1994 as a monographic museum – the museum of the creative heritage of Alexei Liberov.

He was a People’s Artist of Russia, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, a laureate of the Repin State Prize, an honorary citizen of the city of Omsk, a public figure, the founder of the art and graphics faculty at the Omsk State Pedagogical Institute.

In 1994, the governor of the Omsk region issued a decree on the establishment of the Liberov Center museum. The museum opened its first exposition in December 1994 in the building on the street. Lenin, 3, because the mansion on the Duma from 1994 to 1999 underwent major repairs. At the same time, an art studio for creatively gifted children, an associated UNESCO school, began to work in the museum, in which more than 300 children study annually.

The museum collection includes more than 3,500 pieces of paintings and graphics, archival materials, children's drawings. The central place in the funds is occupied by the works of Alexei Liberov, his associates and students. Among them are Omsk artists and teachers Rostislav Cherepanov, Valentin Kukuytsev, Gennady Shtabnov, Anatoly Chermoshentsev, Stanislav Belov, Georgy Kichigin, Alexander Makarov and others.