Perm State Art Gallery, Art museum in Perm, Russia
The Perm State Art Gallery is an art museum in the Russian city of Perm that holds around 50,000 artworks spanning the 15th to 20th centuries. The collection features Russian and European pieces along with regional folk art.
An art department opened in 1902 within Perm's Scientific and Industrial Museum, founded in 1890; the art museum itself opened on 7 November 1922. In 1932 it moved into the Transfiguration Cathedral, built 1793–1832 to Ivan Svyazev's design, and in 1936 was renamed the Perm State Art Gallery. The cathedral was returned to the Orthodox Church in 2023, and a new building by architect Sergei Choban opened on 31 March 2026.
The gallery's name dates to 1936, when the museum became the Perm State Art Gallery. Its core holdings came from expeditions of the 1920s led by founders Aleksandr Syropyatov and Nikolai Serebrennikov, who gathered Perm wooden sculpture, gold facial and ornamental embroidery, religious objects and Stroganov icons. Later expeditions of the 1960s–1990s added folk icons, costume, ceramics, weaving and painted wood.
The museum is currently undergoing relocation to a new building at the Shpagin Factory site and visitors should check ahead before planning a visit. Opening dates may shift, so confirming current status online is recommended.
During World War II the gallery stored collections of the State Russian Museum, evacuated from Leningrad, and housed a workshop making agitation posters led by director Nikolai Serebrennikov; many of those posters later entered the gallery's own collection.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 93,850 contributors worldwide.