Permanent expositions

Avant-Garde: The Great Experiment of Russian Art

Avant-Garde: The Great Experiment of Russian Art

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...
The Benois Wing
Russian Art of the First Half of the XIX Century

Russian Art of the First Half of the XIX Century

The exhibition shows masterpieces representing the variety of trends in the Russian art of the time (classicism, romantism and beginning in the second third of the XIX century realism). The works by academic school masters are also widely represented: the canvases by Karl Brullov (the ...

Ancient Art of ХII—XVII Centuries

Ancient Art of ХII—XVII Centuries

Collection of the Old Russian painting of the Russian Museum is one of the largest and most significant in Russia. It includes around six thousand icons. The permanent exhibition housed in the first four halls of Mikhailovsky Palace represents a part of this collection, the most valuab...

Russian Art of the XVIII Century

Russian Art of the XVIII Century

The exposition of Russian art of XVIII century is chronologically organized and presents the main stages and trends of Russian art of this time. One part of the display is dedicated to the time of Peter I and focuses mainly on the names of Ivan Nikitin and Andrei Matveyev, the greatest portraiti...

Russian Art of the Second Half of the XIX Century

Russian Art of the Second Half of the XIX Century

Even when it first opened back in 1898, the Russian Museum owned many canvases painted by such masters of the second half of the nineteenth century as Ivan Aivazovsky, Konstantin Makovsky, Ilya Repin, Vasily Polenov and Vasily Surikov. Although the selection of works before the revolution w...

Folk Art of the XVII-XXI Centuries

Folk Art of the XVII-XXI Centuries

Permanent exhibition of Russian Folk art of XVII-XXIth centuries includes some 1,500 exhibits. Arranged chronologically, they show history of the development of Peasant art and of local centres of artistic crafts, all their main kinds and genres.

Peter and Irene Ludwig’s Gift

Peter and Irene Ludwig’s Gift

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...
The Marble Palace
Ceremonial halls of St Michael’s Castle

Ceremonial halls of St Michael’s Castle

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...
Modern exhibition of Cabin of Peter the Great

Modern exhibition of Cabin of Peter the Great

Modern exhibition of the museum comprises items dating back to Peter I’s time, including memorial paraphernalia, such as: red broadcloth uniform, an oriental cane, a model of Peter I’s hand based on an imprint made at Lipetsk foundry in 1707, a wherry, and Peter’s armchair.