Erarta, Contemporary art museum in Vasilyevsky Island, Russia

Erarta is a contemporary art museum on Vasilyevsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia, showing works by Russian artists from recent decades. The building rises through five floors with paintings, sculptures and installations arranged in bright exhibition rooms that span multiple levels.

The museum opened in 2010 as the first private institution dedicated to contemporary art in Saint Petersburg. Since then it has grown its collection steadily and evolved into a space hosting performance art and digital projects.

The name joins "Era" and "Arta" to mean "the era of art". Two entrance sculptures, Era and Arta by Dmitry Zhukov, personify it. Inside, wall-art murals cover the interiors, and on the third floor 50 rentable YOUnits display visitors' own design, photography or collage work.

The museum occupies a five-storey building on Vasilyevsky Island; its entrance is marked by two sculptures, Era and Arta, by Dmitry Zhukov. Inside, several cinema halls show Art-Animation on the third floor and the Black Square cartoon in another. Allow time for the temporary exhibitions, of which around 30 are staged each year.

Some galleries feature animated paintings where projected elements move slowly and bring scenes to life. The venue also stages theater pieces without actors, using only light, sound and moving objects to tell stories.