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Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is one of the biggest Art museums in the Urals. It always develops, add its collections and tell people about the art life of their mother land. The main building of the museum is located in a very beautiful and picturesque place in the city: Historical Square. The funds of the museum take the area of two buildings: the first is on Voyevodin, 5 - The structure reconstructed in 1985 from the building of 18th century, and the second is on Vayner st.11 - previously the shop of Ekaterinburg Merchant, designed in 1914 by Mr. Bobykin K.T.

    Our museum is famous with a unique collection of Kasli cast-iron moulding and ,especially, with Kasli cast iron Pavilion. But besides the pavilion the museum has got quite a number of real masterpieces of Russian, West Europe, applied and modern Arts. The department of Russian Painting's got a big and constantly replenishing collection of icons, referring to 16-19th centuries. It is 700 items. Russian Art of the 2nd part of 18th - 1st quarter of 19th is introduced by the works of F. Rokotov, D. Levitzkiy,V. Borovikovskiy, V. Tropinin, K. Brullov,A. Venitsianov, I. Aivazovskiy. The Art of the 2nd part of 18th century is represented by so called artists-peredvizhniks V. Perov, I. Kramskoy, G. Myasoyedov. The end of 19th c. was the top of Russian painting and the time of creation of different art associations. The museum has several pictures of the Association "The World of Art" created by A. Benua, S. Sudeykin . Significant part of the collection of West Europe Art contents the pictures of Italian artists of 14-19th cc. Besides the drawings from France , Holland, Germany. The collection of Russian Avant-garde of 1910-1920 is the property of the museum. At the exposition on Vayner st. The pictures of K. Malevitch,V. Kandinskiy, M. Larionov, N. Goncharova,I. Mashkov Are represented as well

The Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts was established in 1936. Nowadays, it has two branches. One is located in the reconstructed building of the local railway factory's hospital, and the other – in the former house of merchant Bardygin – undergoes reconstruction now.

The museum has collections of the West European Arts of the XIV-XIX centuries, the Russian Arts of the XVII – early XX centuries, Russian avant-garde; the modern naïve art is next to the well-known Urals casting art and jewelry by local artists.

The key masterpiece is the Kasli cast-iron pavilion, which was made for the International Exhibition in Paris in 1900, and which is on the UNESCO list of history and culture monuments. The collection also has works by Russian avant-garde artists Kazimir Malevich, Natalia Nesterova and Mikhail Larionov, Wassily Kandinsky and others.

The museum invites visitors to exhibitions, master classes, musical evenings, concerts, lectures, author tours and artistic meetings.