Current exhibitions

The State Russian Museum, with the support of VTB Bank, presents the official exhibition of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Great Women: Images in Russian Art. Unprecedented in its scope and scale, the exhibition is held in the Mikhailovsky Palace, the main building of the Russian Mu...

Vasily Tropinin, a leading portrait painter of the early 19th century, is the subject of a new exhibition at the Russian Museum. Housed in ten rooms of the Marble Palace, the exhibition is the first major retrospective of the master’s work to be...

The State Russian Museum and PJSC Sberbank present an exhibition of unprecedented scale dedicated to the works of Ivan Shishkin, one of the central figures of Russian art. For the first time at the Russian Museum, his magnificent paintings will be shown in&nbs...

The Russian Museum, with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and VTB Bank, presents the large-scale exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Pyotr Konchalovsky. The Benois Wing showcases works from the collection of the Russian Museum, 18 leading museums across the...

The Glass and Stone exhibition at the Stroganov Palace brings together mineralogical specimens and artistic practice. At the heart of the display lies a resonance between geology, captured in its mineral form, and works of glass art that echo the textures and aesthetics...

The exhibition at the Marble Palace of the Russian Museum, marking the 125th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Akimov, an outstanding figure in 20th-century Russian culture, invites viewers to appreciate the scale of this remarkable artist’s achievement. He was the founder and director of one of t...

This small-scale exhibition in Room 82 of the Benois Wing is dedicated to the memory of the distinguished art historian Nikolai Novouspensky, who gave more than fifty years of service to the Russian Museum. The display presents sixteen works by great mast...

The exhibition in Academic Rooms 14 and 15 of the Mikhailovsky Palace features around 100 engravings and lithographs from the Russian Museum collection, offering a glimpse of the St Petersburg suburbs through the eyes of 19th-century artists, including Andrei ...

The state rooms of the first floor of the Stroganov Palace are occupied by the exhibition The Villa of a Russian Patron, a fantasy of an exquisite country house belonging to a collector and patron of the arts. In each room, nearly one hundr...