The Sevastopol Art Museum named after Mikhail Pavlovich Kroshitsky is located in a late-19th-century building in the center of Sevastopol.
The collection is based on paintings by Russian and Ukrainian artists of the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century. These paintings were brought specifically for the museum’s exhibition in 1925 from the State Funds of Moscow and Leningrad Museums. The development of the collection began with artworks from palaces and estates on the Southern Coast of Crimea that were nationalized in the early 1920s and exhibited at the Yalta Art Museum until 1927. The Sevastopol Art Gallery was opened to the “widest possible audience” on November 6, 1927. In 1991, the museum was renamed after Mikhail Kroshitsky, an honored artist of Ukraine who was the museum’s director between 1939 and 1958 and saved more than a thousand valuable exhibits during the Great Patriotic War.
Nowadays, the museum houses
over 10,000 works of painting, graphic art, sculpture, and decorative and
applied arts. The permanent exhibition includes unique works from the Italian
Renaissance period, beautiful paintings from the Golden Age of Dutch and
Flemish painting, works by French artists of the 17th–19th centuries, as well as pre-revolutionary Russian art.
