Nevyansk Icon Museum, icon museum in Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Nevyansk Icon Museum displays more than 300 religious artworks spanning the 18th to 20th centuries, representing Orthodox Christian painting traditions. The collection features hand-crafted icons with detailed workmanship and shows how the art form evolved across generations.

This regional painting style began in 1734 when local masters created an important icon of Mary. The museum itself was founded in 1999 to preserve this distinctive local tradition for future generations.

The name comes from Nevyansk, an 18th-century Old Believer centre in the Ural mountains, where a few workshops worked under raids and searches and painted only to order. Their clients were literate, wealthy Old Believers who knew what they wanted. The museum also shows works by Ural artists Brusilovsky, Sazhayev, Metelev and Alekseyev-Svinkin.

The museum is located at 15 Engelsa Street and opens daily from 11 AM onward. Admission is free, making it easy to visit the collection without needing to plan around ticket costs.

The museum also holds icons too damaged to restore, keeping them for their surviving fragments. Its restoration department, set up with the Shadr Sverdlovsk Art College, is described as the only one of its kind in Russia. The museum publishes a bulletin, five issues appeared between 2002 and 2017.