Current exhibitions

The painter Ivan (Hovhannes) Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Gaivazovsky, Haivazian), born on 17 (29) July 1817 and died on 19 April (2 May) 1900, requires little introduction. Few masters in the history of Russian art have resonated as deeply with such diverse audienc...

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...

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...

A small-scale exhibition devoted to Tatyana Manturova (1921–1999) opens in Room 82 of the Benois Wing. An outstanding specialist in Russian sculpture, she devoted fifty years to the Russian Museum. From 1949 to 1999 she worked in the Department of&nb...

A large-scale exhibition of works by Pelageya Shuriga is opening at St Michael’s (Engineers’) Castle of the Russian Museum. The exhibition features around 130 works of sculpture, graphic art, and decorative arts by this vibrant and distinctive Leningrad artist, spanning her career from graph...

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...

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...