The Novokuznetsk Art Museum was founded by Order No. 52 of August 8, 1961 on the basis of the City Art Gallery, which was opened in 1957 as a department of the Stalin Museum of Local Lore. Initially, the museum was called the Kemerovo Regional Museum of Soviet Fine Art in the City of Stalinsk (now the city of Novokuznetsk).
The museum gradually grew its collection and in 1992 it was renamed the Novokuznetsk Art Museum.
From 1961 to 1981, the museum was located on the ground floor of a residential building at 3 Metallurgov Street. Then it received a room at 62 Kirov Street. There it occupied the first floor of a residential building. The design of the exhibition halls was made according to a special project proposed by the architects of “Kuzbassgrazhdanproekt” B. Gorbunov and I. Kuznetsov.
In the new premises of the
museum, a permanent exhibition was created. It took several years to develop
it. In the second half of the 1990s, sections dedicated to icon and decorative
and applied arts were added to it.
