Bashkir Art Museum named after M.V. Nesterov

Bashkir State Art Museum named after M.V. Nesterov is one of the oldest and largest museums in Russia: it was opened in January 1920. Located in an architectural monument of the early twentieth century - the former mansion of the merchant-timberman M.A. Laptev (building in 1913 in Art Nouveau style, architect - A.A. Shcherbachev).

The idea of creating a museum and the beginning of its collection belong to a native of Ufa, an outstanding Russian artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Academician of Painting M.V. Nesterov (1862-1942): in 1913 the artist brought a collection of Russian paintings and graphics collected by him in the second half of the XIX - early XX century, including works by I.E. Repin, I.I. Shishkin, N.A. Yaroshenko, V.D. Polenov, V.E. Makovsky, I.I. Levitanov, K.A., A.A. Gorin, and other famous artists. The gift included 30 works by M.V. Nesterov himself. Today, the collection of his works in the museum collection is one of the largest in Russia: 108 exhibits.

Unique in the collection of the museum is the collection of paintings by the “father of Russian futurism” D.D. Burliuk (1882-1967): 37 works (portraits, landscapes, still lifes, cubofuturistic compositions), dated 1915-1918 - the time of the artist's stay in Bashkiria. In terms of quantitative composition and quality, this is the largest museum collection of Burliuk works in Russia.

The museum collection presents unique monuments of ancient Russian art, Russian art of the XVIII - early XX century, Western European art of the XVI-XIX centuries, decorative and applied art of Russia and Europe, Soviet and Russian fine art, Bashkir folk decorative and applied art, modern fine art of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The total number of the museum collection is more than 12,000 exhibits.