The name of Ivan Sotnikov (1961, Leningrad - 2015, St. Petersburg), artist and priest, marks a specific period of 35 years of St. Petersburg art. The first graphic ...
Marble Palace
Stroganov Palace
Vladimir Vasilkovsky. To the 100th Birth Anniversary
The exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Vladimir Sergeevich Vasilkovsky (1921-2002), an outstanding figure of St. Pet...
Benois Wing
The work of Ivan Shishkin (1832–1898) occupies a special place in history of Russian art. The major exhibition from the funds of the Russian Museum will provide an ...
Marble Palace
Aidan Salakhova. From the New Saints Series.
Aidan Salakhova is a famous Russian painter and sculptor, pedagogue, recent active gallery owner and public figure. Her career in recent years has been ...
The State Russian Museum
The exhibition brings together the works of Italian and Russian futur...
Benois Wing
Igor Grabar. For the 150th Anniversary of the Artist's Birth
The name of Igor Grabar (1871-1960) is inextricably linked with the Silver Age of Russian culture.
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Permanent and temporary exhibitions
Portraits of Count Nikolai Sheremetev: New Revelations
22 july—20 september 2021
Amerling was one of the best masters of children’s portrait of his time. The portrait of the little Count Sheremetev discovered in the State Russian Museum is the only work of the master in Russia so far. The exhibition will feature portraits of Nikolai Sheremetev made by various artists in various techniques - painting, miniature, sculpture, original and printed graphics from the collection of the State Russian Museum, the State Hermitage Museum, the Ostankino Estate Museum (Moscow), the State Historical Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Ancient Art of XIV-XVII Centuries
Permanent exhibition
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 valuable works of XII-XVII centuries created in the major art centers of Old Russia: Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir, Suzdal, Moscow, and Yaroslavl.
Russian Art of the XVIII Century
Permanent exhibition
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 portraitists and leaders of the secular Russian art of this time. Genre of portrait of the middle and second part of XVIII century is presented by such artists as Ivan Vishyakov, Alexey Antropov, Ivan Argunov, Fyodor Rokotov.
18 march 2020—30 march 2020
New timetable in Mikhailovsky palace from March 18 - 30
15 february 2018—15 february 2018
Classical music in the Russian Museum
Collections
Among the museum collections of Russian icon painting, the icon collection of the Russian Museum, alongside the Tretyakov Gallery and the Moscow Museum of History, has pride of place. The collection numbers more than five thousand icons from the twelfth to the early twentieth centuries. The collection of Old Russian art and craft work, sculpture and applied art stands on a par with the collections of the largest museums in Russia. It is one of the most important collections, providing a view of the development of Russian decorative and applied art over the centuries — from the ninth to the seventeenth.
Also in the Mikhailovsky Palace:
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. |
Ticket offices close 30 minutes earlier
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Metro - Gostiny Dvor, Nevsky Prospekt
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Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
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