Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Art museum in Tsentralny District, Novosibirsk, Russia.
The Novosibirsk State Art Museum occupies the former Sibrevkom building on Krasny Avenue, a grey stone structure with a shallow central dome and a red banner reading "РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ ХУДОЖЕСТВ". Its projecting entrance bears the inscription "ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННЫЙ МУЗЕЙ" above dark double doors, and two statues stand on the roofline flanking the dome.
The gallery was created by a resolution of the RSFSR Council of Ministers on 16 January 1957 and opened to visitors on 27 December 1958, with Mikhail Mochalov as its first director. It first occupied the ground floor of a five-storey residential building on Sverdlov Street. In 1982 it moved into the former Sibrevkom building, whose 1926 part was designed by architect A. D. Kryachkov and is a monument of republican significance; an annex was added in 1948. In 2004 the picture gallery was reorganised as a museum.
The museum displays works by Russian painters trained in Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, where Western and Russian traditions meet on the same walls. Visitors can see how these influences shaped the way Russian artists approached light, color, and subject matter.
The museum occupies the former Sibrevkom building on Krasny Avenue, sharing it with the Wax Figure Museum, the Novosibirsk Toy Museum and the Theatre of Artistic Doll. The entrance is under the red banner marked "ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННЫЙ МУЗЕЙ", up a few steps from the street. The 1926 Kryachkov wing is a listed monument, and a 1948 annex adjoins it.
Sixty works by Nicholas Roerich, painted in the last decade of his life, came to the gallery in 1957 under the artist's will; the Himalayan landscapes of that bequest draw particular attention. The building also houses a wax figure museum, a toy museum and a puppet theatre.
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