The name of Ivan Sotnikov (1961, Leningrad - 2015, St. Petersburg), artist and priest, marks a specific period of 35 years of St. Petersburg art. The first graphic ...
Marble Palace
Stroganov Palace
Vladimir Vasilkovsky. To the 100th Birth Anniversary
The exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Vladimir Sergeevich Vasilkovsky (1921-2002), an outstanding figure of St. Pet...
Benois Wing
The work of Ivan Shishkin (1832–1898) occupies a special place in history of Russian art. The major exhibition from the funds of the Russian Museum will provide an ...
Marble Palace
Aidan Salakhova. From the New Saints Series.
Aidan Salakhova is a famous Russian painter and sculptor, pedagogue, recent active gallery owner and public figure. Her career in recent years has been ...
The State Russian Museum
The exhibition brings together the works of Italian and Russian futur...
Benois Wing
Igor Grabar. For the 150th Anniversary of the Artist's Birth
The name of Igor Grabar (1871-1960) is inextricably linked with the Silver Age of Russian culture.
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Permanent and temporary exhibitions
Igor Grabar. For the 150th Anniversary of the Artist's Birth
22 july—20 september 2021
The exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the artist presents more than 120 paintings made in 1880s - 1950s. The exposition will include works from 17 Russian museums, as well as private collections in both Russian capitals.
23 june—30 august 2021
The work of Ivan Shishkin (1832–1898) occupies a special place in history of Russian art. The major exhibition from the funds of the Russian Museum will provide an opportunity to get acquainted with the unique talent of the greatest master of Russian landscape in all its diversity.
Permanent exhibition
The collection of the museum comprises works of the representatives of large schools that existed in Soviet times (e.g., Leningrad school of landscape painting of the 1930s - 1950s). The art of socialist realism, showing high artistic merit, clarity of plot, a tendency for "grand style", is reflected in the paintings by A.A. Deyneka, A.N. Samokhvalov, A.A. Plastov, Yu.I. Pimenov and many other Soviet artists who continued to work during the Great Patriotic War and in the second half of the XX century.
13 may 2019—19 may 2019
#MuseumWeek
5 february 2018—5 february 2018
Igor Baskin and D-sound project in the Benois Wing
Opening hours
| Monday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Mikhailovsky Palace, Benois Wing are open until 8:p.m. | |
| Tuesday | The Museum is closed |
| Wednesday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Sunday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Ticket offices close 30 minutes earlier
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2 Griboyedov Canal, St. Petersburg
Metro - Nevsky Prospekt
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Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
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