The Khimki Art Gallery was opened on December 24, 1993.
The museum was established based on the private collection of Sergey Nikolayevich Gorshin, a researcher, expert in wood preservation and forest protection, Doctor of Technology, Honored Scientist and Engineer of the RSFSR, and honorary citizen of Khimki. He collected artworks for over 50 years.
The museum houses artworks by representatives of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions, associations “Mir iskusstva” (World of Art), the Union of Russian Artists, “Blue Rose”, and “Knave of Diamonds”, as well as Soviet realist painters of the 1930s–1950s.
Nowadays, the museum collection features over
16,000 artifacts, including paintings, drawings, statues, posters, picture
cards, and postcards.
