Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
The Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is the largest art museum in the Urals, Russia. It is on Voevodina Street beside the Iset River in Yekaterinburg. The city was called Sverdlovsk from 1924 to 1991.
The museum traces its origins to the Sverdlovsk Art Gallery, founded in 1936. Its collections include Russian avant-garde from the 1910s–1920s, later 20th‑century art, and works from the 1960s onward. During World War II, some Hermitage works were moved there for safety.
In the late 1970s the old ironworks area was turned into Historical Square. The new museum space opened in 1986 in a former 1730 hospital building. The gallery was given the status of a Museum of Fine Arts in 1988 and was renamed the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts in 1992 when the city’s name changed back to Yekaterinburg.
In 2015, local leader Yevgeny Roizman donated his naive art collection, leading to the creation of a separate Museum of Naive Art. The Naive Art building on Rosa Luxemburg Street 18 opened on November 18, 2017. This building was built in 1884 by architect A. I. Paduchev and is a local landmark; in Soviet times it housed communal apartments and later a recording studio for bands such as Chaif and Nautilus Pompilius.
The Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is famous for Kasli metalwork, including the Kasli cast-iron pavilion that was shown at the 1900 Paris World Exposition. The museum operates across several buildings.
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