Perm State Art Gallery

Perm State Art Gallery is the largest regional art museum in Russia. Opened on November 7, 1922. The gallery from 1932 to 2023 was located in the building of the Savior-Transfiguration Cathedral, which is an architectural monument of the XIX century. At the end of 2023, she moved to the temporary premises of the Telta plant, where storage facilities and a hall for temporary exhibitions were allocated.

The collection of the gallery includes about 53,000 authentic works of art of various genres, schools and trends, countries and eras. The permanent exhibition presents Russian art (XVIII – early XX century) from the work of academic artists to representatives of different trends of the Russian avant-garde; art of Western Europe (XV–XVIII), including paintings by masters of the Italian Renaissance (XV–XVI); a unique collection of ancient Russian painting (XVI–XVII), created in the workshops of Moscow, Middle Russia, the Russian North and the Urals; the famous collection of “Permian gods” (XVII–XIX), which is the largest collection of Russian temple wooden sculpture in the country.