Novosibirsk State Art Museum
Siberian art collection in the 1926 Sibrevkom building, with Roerich and Siberian galleries.
The museum was created by a government decree of January 1957 and opened its galleries to the public in December 1958 as the Novosibirsk Picture Gallery, built up from works transferred by the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum and the culture ministries. It took its present name in 2004. Since 1982 it has occupied the House of Regional Organisations on Krasny Prospekt, completed in 1926 to a design by the Siberian architect Andrey Kryachkov for the Siberian Revolutionary Committee and protected as a federal monument.
The holdings now run to more than twelve thousand paintings, drawings, sculptures and pieces of decorative art, covering Russian icons, eighteenth to early twentieth-century Russian painting, Western European art and twentieth-century work. The museum is best known for the sixty paintings and studies by Nicholas Roerich transferred in 1960 from the estate his son brought back from India, one of the largest such groups anywhere, and for its collection of Siberian art. It mounts up to seventy exhibitions a year, with temporary shows in separate halls on Sverdlova Street.
Highlights
- Around sixty paintings by Nicholas Roerich
- Kryachkov's 1926 Sibrevkom building, a federal monument
- Siberian art rooms, including works by Nikolai Gritsyuk
- Russian icons and eighteenth to twentieth-century painting
