The Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1960, and it remains the only art museum in the region. In 2010, it was named after the artist Ilya Mashkov. The current collection of the VMFA includes more than 11,400 works. The exhibition displays all types of fine art: painting, graphic art, sculpture, decorative, and applied art.
The collection houses the works by foreign masters, the domestic portraits of the 18th—19th centuries, the works by the Wanderers (a group of Russian realist artists), the gems of the Russian landscape, and works of Russian art of the 20th century: the works by Ilya Mashkov, Robert Falk, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Aristarkh Lentulov and other authors.
