The collection of the Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum started in 1895 as an art section of the Historical and Archaeological Museum of the Simbirsk Provincial Scientific Archival Commission. After the revolutionary events of 1917, the museum included nationalized collections of Simbirsk nobility, industrialists, and merchants. During the next years the museum received numerous artworks from the Fine Arts Department of the People’s Commissariat for Education, the State Museum Fund, the Pushkin House of the Academy of Sciences, and the State Hermitage Museum. These collections, which are deeply rooted in the history of the Simbirsk region, make the modern Ulyanovsk Museum an unique and individual place. Today, the collection of the Ulyanovsk Museum has more than 13,600 authentic works of art — paintings, sculpture, graphics, antique ceramics, porcelain, and furniture.
The permanent exhibition “Masterpieces of the Ulyanovsk Art Museum” displays the best examples of international art from the museum’s collection. The exhibits include paintings by Russian artists Dmitry Levitsky, Fyodor Rokotov, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Karl Bryullov, Ivan Aivazovsky and others, still lifes and landscapes by Dutch masters of the 17th century, works on religious and mythological themes by artists from Spain and France, works by unknown domestic artists of the 18th century, including portraits of Russian emperors. Vasily Perov’s painting “The Apprentice Boy” and Alexander Ivanov’s study “Olive Trees”, that was created in the process of preparing for “The Appearance of Christ to the People”, are the highlights of the museum’s collection.
The permanent exhibition “Masterpieces of the Ulyanovsk Art Museum” displays the best examples of international art from the museum’s collection. The exhibits include paintings by Russian artists Dmitry Levitsky, Fyodor Rokotov, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Karl Bryullov, Ivan Aivazovsky and others, still lifes and landscapes by Dutch masters of the 17th century, works on religious and mythological themes by artists from Spain and France, works by unknown domestic artists of the 18th century, including portraits of Russian emperors. Vasily Perov’s painting “The Apprentice Boy” and Alexander Ivanov’s study “Olive Trees”, that was created in the process of preparing for “The Appearance of Christ to the People”, are the highlights of the museum’s collection.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
