Chelyabinsk Museum of Art, Chelyabinskaya oblast, Russia
The Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts is the only art museum of the classical type in the Southern Urals.
The collection of the museum contains more than 16,000 items reflecting the development of regional, Russian, Western European, Eastern art.
The date of birth of the museum is June 6, 1940, when the Chelyabinsk city art gallery was opened in the building of the Alexander Nevsky Church on the Al area. In 1940, the gallery received 106 paintings and drawings from the State Russian Museum. The transferred items, as well as works with the exhibition “South Urals in Painting”, which was held in 1936-1939, represented the famous capital and local masters, formed the basis of the museum collection. The founder and the first director of the museum was L.P. Klevensky (1894-1977). A significant contribution to the development of the museum was made by its director in the 1950s GN Lapin (1895-1970). It was during these years that the museum’s collection was housed in a historical building – an object of cultural heritage of federal significance – the passage of the Yaushev brothers.
The initiator of the organization of the second museum site as a branch of the Picture Gallery (since 1985 – the Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Urals, since 2005 – the halls of the Museum of Arts) became KN Sidorov, head of the Department of Culture (from 1971 to 1988, director of the Chelyabinsk Regional Picture Gallery). The museum acquired modern administrative status in 2005, when the two museums merged – the Chelyabinsk Regional Picture Gallery and the Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Urals. SO Tkachenko became the director of the educated museum.
When there was a merger of two museums – the Chelyabinsk Regional Picture Gallery and the Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Urals. SO Tkachenko became the director of the educated museum. when there was a merger of two museums – the Chelyabinsk Regional Picture Gallery and the Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Urals. SO Tkachenko became the director of the educated museum.
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