Orenburg Regional Museum of Fine Arts

Orenburg Regional Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1960, opened in 1961. The museum is located in a building built in the early XIX century by architect Mikhailo Malakhov for the City Duma. The basis of the collection of the museum was the collection of works by the academician of painting, one of the most interesting representatives of the late movement Lukian Vasilyevich Popov (1873-1914), who was born and worked in Orenburg for many years.

The collection of the museum contains works of ancient Russian, Russian, Soviet and Western European art, from the end of the XVI century to the present day, including painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied art. Russian art of the XIX century is represented by various genres, mainly landscape. Among the works of I.K. Aivazovsky, L.F. Lagorio, A.K. Savrasov, N.N. Dubovsky, V.E. Makovsky, V.D. Polenov, F.A. Malyavin and others.

The main concept of the museum is a reflection of the artistic life of the region in the general context of the development of Russian national culture. A significant place in the collection is occupied by works of Orenburg painters, as well as exhibits that are somehow related to local history and culture. Over the past two decades, an interesting collection of naive paintings by Orenburg artists has been collected, the name of one of them - S.G. Stepanov - is included in the world encyclopedia of naive art.

The Museum of Fine Arts presents almost all art crafts of the Ural region, among them is a unique collection of the world-famous Orenburg down scarf (shallies and openwork webs). The museum carries out active collecting, scientific and popularizing activities, organizes a wide range of exhibitions, scientific readings, lectures, museum "Mondays" and is one of the most important cultural centers of the city and the region.

The museum hosts excursions to the permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions. Special attention is paid to the audience by the halls of L.V. Popov and expositions of Russian and decorative and applied art.