17 october 2018—14 january 2019
An exhibition on the occasion of the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx offers a comprehensive overview of images of the influential thinker in Russian culture and everyday lif...
Benois Wing
St Michael’s Castle
Unexpected Malevich. From the Archive of A. A. Leporskaya, Donated to the Russian Museum
15 november 2018—21 january 2019
The exhibition will present drawings by Kazimir Malevich donated to the Russian Museum by R. F. Strimaitis, ac...
Stroganov Palace
Lazar Khidekel (1904–1986). Towards the History of the Russian Avant-Garde
21 november 2018—14 january 2019
The exhibition will present over 80 works by Lazar Khidekel — a prominent figure of the Russian avant-garde — from the colle...
Marble Palace
Russian Daily Life in the Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries
22 november 2018—14 january 2019
The exhibition presents a “cross-section of Russian life” in genre scuplture from the mid-19th century to the present day.
St Michael’s Castle
12 december 2018—11 march 2019
Dashi Namdakov's work is closely tied to the national Buryat culture, Mongolian epos and the legends and parables of Buddhism, and distinguished by academic precision, particular...
Benois Wing
Headscarves and Shawls in Russia from the 18th to the 21st Century
20 december 2018—11 march 2019
The exhibition will present more than 600 works of various types of textile art, painting, graphics, decorative and applied art, an...
Marble Palace
The work of Andrei Dubov, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, is associated with the consistent development of key categories of painting: color, composition, and space. Focusing...
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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. |
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Permanent and temporary exhibitions
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Permanent exhibition
On the 26th of May 2005 in St Michael's (Engineers) Castle a renovated open sculpture fund was opened. 134 artworks of the end of the 19th century — the beginning of 20th century were presented. The State Russian Museum was the first in the national museum practice to create public stocks in its palaces.
Faces of Russia. Portrait Gallery of the Russian Museum
Permanent exhibition
The new Faces of Russia. Portrait Gallery of the Russian Museum permanent exhibition in the St. Michael’s (Engineer’s) Castle presents the evolution of the portrait in the Russian art from the so-called parsuna portraits of the beginning of the 18th century till the works of the Soviet time.
St.Petersburg Society During the Romanov Era
Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition shows Russian art of the first half of the XIX-th century, the time when St.Petersburg established itself as complex and contradictory unit of the urban and social environment. It was during this period that concept «St.Petersburg Society» was formed, expressed in terms of people and social groups.
12 december 2018—11 march 2019
Dashi Namdakov's work is closely tied to the national Buryat culture, Mongolian epos and the legends and parables of Buddhism, and distinguished by academic precision, particular expressiveness of character, and accuracy in rendering movement.
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