Permanent expositions

Held in the state rooms of St Michael’s (Engineers’) Castle, this large-scale exhibition of historical portraiture from the 17th to the 19th centuries features approximately 300 works of painting, graphic art, and sculpture from the collection of the Russian Museum and other leading national museums...

The Russian Museum’s collection of Old Russian painting is one of the largest and most significant in the country, comprising approximately 6,000 icons.

Avant-Garde: The Great Experiment of Russian Art permanent exhibition offers everyone an opportunity to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of remarkable experiments with form and colour and to acquaint themselves with the main avant-garde movements: Suprematism, Constructivism, Expressionism and F...

Arranged in chronological order, this section of the exhibition traces the principal stages and key trends in the development of 18-century Russian art. 

The permanent exhibition of Russian folk art from the 17th to the 21st century features approximately 1,500 works. Arranged chronologically, the display traces the development of peasant art and regional artisan centers across all major media and genres.

The State Russian Museum is the only museum in Russia featuring a permanent display of classic world art from the second half of the 20th century. In 1994–1995, the renowned German collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig, motivated by their deep interest in Russian culture, donated to the State Russian Mu...

On 19 May 2021, the ceremonial halls of St Michael’s Castle opened after major restoration. On 31 August 1951, the premises of the ceremonial halls of Emperor Paul I in St Michael’s Castle were provided to the Central Naval Library to hold stacks of books. In the St Michael’s Castle branch of the Ru...

Designed by Andrei Voronikhin in 1791–1792, the Mineral Study of the Stroganov Palace is rightly considered a masterpiece of 18th-century Russian architecture. The hall was intended to house Count Alexander Stroganov’s extensive library and to display his mine...

In December 1998, the renowned St Petersburg collectors Yakov Alexandrovich and Iosif Alexandrovich Rzhevsky donated their extensive collection of artworks to the State Russian Museum.