Matjushin House, Avant-garde art museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Matjushin House is a wooden residential building from the 1840s that now functions as a museum dedicated to Russian avant-garde art movements. The rooms display paintings, drawings, and archival materials that document the development of these artistic currents.
Mikhail Matyushin and Elena Guro acquired this residence in 1912 and transformed it into a center for experimental art. In the first half of the 20th century, it became an important location for the development of new artistic concepts in Russia.
In the 1910s and 1920s the flat of Mikhail Matyushin and Elena Guro became a headquarters of Russian Futurists: Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky visited or lived and worked here. Matyushin, a violinist and composer, built violins by hand, and examples of his instruments are shown in the museum.
The museum occupies the wooden two-storey house at 10 Professor Popov Street, on Petrograd Side. The memorial workshop of Mikhail Matyushin and the room of Elena Guro form part of the display, alongside two halls covering the avant-garde before and after 1917. The building was reconstructed after a 1990 fire and opened as a museum in December 2006.
The house preserves the original living environment of Matyushin, where he conducted his experiments connecting color perception with musical compositions. This rare opportunity to explore the spaces where such experimental research took place offers insight into the daily practice of an avant-garde artist.
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