Penza Regional Art Gallery named after K.A. Savitsky

Penza Regional Art Gallery named after K.A. Savitsky was founded in 1892 by the will of the Penza Governor General N.D. Seliverstov (1830-1890) and is one of the oldest and largest art museums in Russia. Today, its collection includes almost 30,000 works of art.

The museum occupies two historical buildings in the historical and cultural part of Penza: “Peasant Land Bank” – a two-storey stone mansion of the Art Nouveau style of the early XX century, built according to the project of academician A. I. von Gauguin, and a building in the classical style, built in the late XVIII century, known as the “Governor’s House”.

In 1955 the gallery was named after K.A. Savitsky. Currently, the collection is more than 28 thousand works, including: paintings by F. Rokotov, D. Levitsky, L. Miropolsky, I. Makarov, I. Repin, K. Flavitsky, I. Aivazovsky, I. Shishkin, K. Makovsky, A. Savrasov, A. Bogolyubov, I. Levitan, A. Kuindzhi, N. Goncharova, K. Korovin, A. Lentulov, R. Falk. In the halls of foreign art are exhibited paintings by J. Vignali, A. van Ostade, M. Hobbema, S. Luttiheis, J. Jansens. P. Mignara F.K. Winterhalter. A diverse collection of art of the Soviet period, contemporary art of Russia, widely represented Penza art school.

The permanent exhibition of the museum can satisfy the most demanding visitor. Here are more than 1,000 of the best works from the collection of the museum, built on the principle of academic series. The real pride of Penza is a unique, the only museum in the world - the Museum of one painting, a branch of the Penza Art Gallery. Another branch of the Penza Art Gallery is the Museum of Glass and Crystal of Nikolsk, founded in 1789 at the Nikolsk-Bakhmetevsky Plant as an exemplary room. Currently, the museum has 14,600 works in its collection, and its collection is recognized by art critics as the best glass collection in Russia.