Museum of P.N. Krylov

About the company:

Telephone: (4872) 41-04-60

Address: 300004, Tula region, Tula, Kutuzov str., 10

Passage: Buses No 16, 25, 28, shuttle taxi No 16, 21, 40 to the stop "Museum of P.N. Krylov"

Working hours: * Daily from 10 to 17, except Sunday

Entrance fee: * For Russian citizens: full - 50 rubles; children - 10 rubles; preferential - disabled, participants of the Great Patriotic War - free; for foreign tourists - 100 rubles.

Internet:
www.museum.ru/M2355 - official page

Email: eMail('krilovmuz','mail.ru',')

poster, events and excursions

Commemorative dates and annual events:
Opening date is 19.09. 1997

May 18	- Museum Day.
September 19	Birthday of the museum
April 1	- Smile festival.
September 1	- Flower festival.
22 August	- Birthday of P.N. Krylov

Description:
The museum is dedicated to the life and work of the outstanding Soviet artist Porfiry Nikitich Krylov (1902-1990), Hero of Socialist Labor, a full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, People's Honourer of the USSR, laureate of Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, honorary citizen of the hero city of Tula, one of the famous triad of cartoonists Kukryniks.

Arriving in the spacious bright halls of the Museum of P.N. Krylov, you will not see caricatures and caricatures - here you will see the soul of the artist, his amazingly bright and poetic vision of the world, the ability to find beauty sometimes even in the most ordinary things. You will certainly be fascinated by the native landscapes of Russian nature, and the exotics of distant countries, and wonderful children’s portraits, and magnificent floral still lifes with their unique and unfading beauty. In total, the museum exhibits more than 250 paintings and watercolors of the master.

P.N. Krylov Museum is also the Center for Children’s Aesthetic Education, it actively cooperates with schools and kindergartens of the city under the program of museum pedagogy. Museum staff developed cycles of classes and scenarios of museum holidays. In addition to annual holidays, there are holidays dedicated to memorable dates in Russian culture. A good tradition was the holding of annual Olympics in the history of fine arts, as well as local history for high school students. An important form of work of the museum is the program "The whole family - to the museum", aimed at uniting children and adults in acquaintance with the beautiful world of fine arts.

Building(s):

The museum building is a typical building of the cinema, opened in 1962. After the decision to transform the cinema into a museum (1995) during the reconstruction, according to the project of Tula architect Pavel Zaitsev, the facade was supplemented by an extension, which gave the building a new, unique look.

Founder: Cousin Marina Nikolaevna, born 1939

Main excursions:
Life and work of P.N. Krylov

Additional services:
kiosk or shop, lecture hall or cinema

Educational services:
Lecture cycles on fine arts, museums of the world, folk and Orthodox holidays, children's art studio, school of needlework

Local attractions:
Tula Kremlin
Museum of Weapons
Samovar Museum
Museum of Fine Arts

professional

Main officers: *
Head: Kondakova Nina Viktorovna, tel. (4872) 41-07-01
Senior Researcher: Olga Kuznetsova, tel. (4872) 41-04-60
Researcher: Zimina Svetlana Evgenyevna, tel. (4872) 41-04-60
Researcher: Mechetina Olga Alexandrovna, tel. (4872) 41-04-60

Headquarters:
(4872) 41-07-01

Address:
300012, Tula, St. Engels, 64

Opening and foundation dates:
open: 19.09. 1997

Budgetary status:
Russian subject

Organizational and legal form:
non-profit

Type of organization:
culturally

Classification of the organization:
Historical, Personal or Memorial, Artistic

Areas of organization:
exhibition and exhibition 678.5 n 2.
parkland 1ga

Number of staff:
23 of them are scientific

The average number of visitors per year:
13500.

Superior organization:
Tula Museum of Fine Arts - M1587

Storage units:
314 of which 314 items of fixed assets