Rybinsk Museum-Preserve, Historical museum-reserve in Rybinsk, Russia.
The Rybinsk Museum-Preserve occupies the former Bread Exchange (Khlebnaya Birzha), a 1912 building by Moscow architect A. V. Ivanov in the Russian style that dominates the Volga panorama. Its collection of over 100,000 items includes Western European graphics, painting, sculpture and applied art, Russian icons, and the Kukryniksy works donated by Nikolai Sokolov.
The museum was founded in 1910 and its building was completed in 1912, designed by Moscow architect A. Ivanov on the banks of the Volga. Over time it grew into a major repository of European art for the surrounding region.
The museum's foreign art collection is the largest in its region, with Western European prints from the 16th to 19th centuries by Agostino Carracci, Hendrick Goltzius and François Boucher, plus paintings by Melchior d'Hondecoeter and Jan van Huysum. Decorative arts include 16th- to 18th-century majolica from Faenza and Urbino, Meissen and Sèvres porcelain, and Chinese Ming and Qing pieces.
The museum sits right on the Volga waterfront, making it easy to find from the town center. Plan to spend a good amount of time inside, as the galleries spread across multiple rooms with varied collections.
The museum's foreign art collection is the largest in its region. Among its Western European paintings are works by Melchior d'Hondecoeter, a Dutch painter of the 17th century known for large bird scenes, shown alongside Jan van Huysum and Balthasar van den Bossche.
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