Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts

The Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts was founded in December 1961 and 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 critic Boris Albertovich Bendik.

The museum is located in the historical part of the city, occupies three buildings connected into a single ensemble, which are architectural monuments of federal significance. In the past, these are merchant mansions built on the former Alexander Street (now Dzerzhinsky Street) in the late 70s of the XIX - early XX century. The Museum of Arts is the only one in the region, which houses the largest art collection, numbering about 25 thousand original works of 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 exposition provides an opportunity to trace the development of art and folk art in the region for many centuries, the collections cover the history from the V century BC to the 1990s. The museum presents objects related to the culture of Japan and China, as well as a collection of icon painting art of Ancient Russia.