Kaliningrad Oblast Museum of Fine Arts, Art museum in Kaliningrad, Russia.
The Kaliningrad Oblast Museum of Fine Arts occupies the former Königsberg Stock Exchange, a pale yellow stone building of 1875 designed by Heinrich Müller. Its facade has round-arched windows between columns, a carved frieze and a long raised inscription. Inside are eight halls of 150 to 500 square metres, plus a low grey entrance block marked "ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ".
The gallery opened on 24 November 1988 in a building at Moskovsky Prospekt 60-62, with works transferred from the Kaliningrad Regional History and Art Museum. In 1989 it received the monographic watercolour collection of A. E. Lopukhin (1897-1986). In October 2016 the regional government decided to move it because of the building's poor condition, and in June 2018 it relocated to the former Königsberg Exchange, built in 1875 to a design by Heinrich Müller (1819-1890).
The museum's name changed in November 2017 from the Kaliningrad Oblast "Art Gallery" to the Museum of Fine Arts. Its graphic collection grew through the international biennial "Kaliningrad–Königsberg", held since 1990 with artists from nine Baltic countries; over 600 works by 200 authors were gathered this way.
The museum occupies the 1875 former Königsberg Stock Exchange on Leninsky Prospekt, a short walk from the city centre. The entrance is a low grey block with metal letters reading "ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ" and a poster for children's art studios; dark glass doors open beneath it. Eight halls of 150 to 500 square metres lie inside.
The museum occupies the former Königsberg Stock Exchange, built in 1875 to a design by Heinrich Müller. In the Soviet period the building housed the Palace of Culture for Sailors and later the Regional Youth Culture Centre. The building is a 19th-century architectural monument.
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