House of Marc Chagall, Biographical museum in Vitsebsk, Belarus.
The House of Marc Chagall is a biographical museum in a brick building in Vitsebsk, Belarus, where the painter spent his childhood and youth. The rooms display personal objects, documents, and works connected to his early years.
Chagall's father built the house at the start of the 20th century, and it served as the family home during the artist's childhood and early youth. In the 1990s it was converted into a museum dedicated to his ties to Vitsebsk.
Chagall grew up in a Jewish family in Vitsebsk, and the city's streets and rooftops appear again and again in his paintings. Visitors who know his work will recognize familiar scenes reflected in the surroundings of the house.
The museum is small and easy to visit at a relaxed pace in about an hour. Going earlier in the morning tends to be quieter, which makes it easier to take in the objects and documents on display.
The research library with over 3,500 volumes on Chagall and the avant-garde is not in the House-Museum but in the Art Center at 2 Putna Street. The same Art Center holds printed graphics by Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger alongside Chagall's Dead Souls illustrations.
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