Art in the Far East: Art Museum in Khabarovsk

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

Every resident of the Far East knows the art museum in Khabarovsk.

For citizens, this is not just a repository of beautiful historically and artistically valuable works. First of all, it is a modern socio-cultural center, which is interesting for professionals and amateurs, adults and children. Active educational activities have made the museum an important part of the public life of the Far East.

How the museum was created

The Far Eastern Art Museum in Khabarovsk has existed since 1931, but in fact it all started much earlier.

Thanks to the governor-general of the Amur region, military writer N. Grodekov, the cultural sphere began to develop in the Far East: a public library and a museum were opened in Khabarovsk, which exhibited ethnographic and archaeological collections. In 1902, Grodekov created an art gallery: at his request, paintings, graphic and sculptural works were sent from the Imperial Academy of Arts. But soon the governor-generalleaves, and there is practically no intelligentsia in the city that would support the development of the gallery…

Only in the 30s, when the cultural life of the region was concentrated in Khabarovsk, it was proposed to restore the gallery. Thus began a new history of the art museum in Khabarovsk.

At the direction of the Council of People's Commissars, museum institutions such as the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery sent 5 wagons with works of art to the Far East. They were placed in a nice mansion on the banks of the Amur River, where the club of officials and officers was located before the revolution.

Museum Today

Today, the Khabarovsk Art Museum (DV) occupies an area of 1124 sq. m, annually it is visited by more than 100 thousand people. It is the largest collection of fine art in the region: it contains about 14 thousand paintings, sculptures, ceramics.

The museum collection is represented by the following expositions:

• Russian art of the 19th–20th centuries;
• contemporary art;
• art of the Far East;
• Western European art;
• indigenous art of the Far East.

Great interest is the branch of the museum in the village. Sikachi-Alyan, where the aboriginal culture of the peoples of the Pacific region is represented. Only here you can see sike - Nanai wedding robes, carpets created by the hands of Ulchi and Nanai craftsmen, various ritual objects, bone carving.

You just need to pay special attention to thiswhen visiting the museum:

• icons created by the masters of Ancient Russia in the 15th century;
• paintings by such famous masters of Europe as Titian, Veronese, Rubens;
• etchings by Dürer;
• old weapons;
• Meissen and Berlin porcelain;
• salon furniture from France;
• works by artists of the 19th century: Tropinin, Shishkin, Levitan, Repin;
• works by the great representatives of the 20th century: Vrubel, Benois, Serov, Vasnetsov.

Tours

The Khabarovsk Art Museum offers visitors various excursions:

1. Overview. Within 45 minutes you can learn the history of the creation of the largest art collection in the Far East, the features of the architecture of the building, and get acquainted with the best exhibits.
2. Russian art. The guide will tell you about the features of Russian fine art on the example of graphics and painting, objects of decorative and applied art, from the 15th century to the present.
3. Western European art. In 45 minutes you can get acquainted with the originals of the great masters of European painting schools of the 15th-19th centuries.
4. In the depository. Visitors have the opportunity to see unique rare items up close.

But the walls of the museum are not limited to the possibilities of studying art: after all, together with the staff of the Far Eastern Art Museum in Khabarovsk, you can go on educational walks around the city. Walking or walking-bus tours allow you to get to knowarchitectural appearance of the city and features of urban sculpture. The excursion "Street of Three Museums" is popular - on Shevchenko Street, in addition to art, there are 2 more museum institutions: local history and archeology.

Programs

The Far Eastern Museum is not just a repository of rarities. It is the center of enlightenment and education. Employees have developed about 10 educational programs aimed at different audiences and ages. There is a guide school, lectures and master classes, musical and poetry evenings and balls.

Exhibitions are regularly held where you can get acquainted with contemporary art, the work of the closest neighbors in the region: Japan, Korea.

Planning a visit

The address of the Art Museum in Khabarovsk is simple: Amur embankment, st. Shevchenko, house 7.

Museum doors are open to visitors all days except Monday, from 10 o'clock. The museum closes at 6 pm.

The cost of visiting is 250 rubles. for adults and 100 r. for students aged 16-18. For students under 16 years old, admission is free. Pensioners and students purchase tickets at a price of 60 rubles.

When visiting the museum as part of an excursion, you will have to pay 60-100 rubles. from a person. A number of categories of citizens have the right to enter the museum for free.

You can take pictures with your phone in the museum for free, you will have to pay 200 rubles for shooting with a camera.