Alexander Labas: Drawings and Watercolours from the Russian Museum Collection
Alexander Labas (1900–1983) was one of the founders of the Easel Painters’ Society (OST, 1925–1932), a gr...
Benois Wing
Benois Wing
Inspired by the Classics: Neoclassicism in Russia
This exhibition is dedicated to Russian Neoclassicism, an early 20th-century art trend that, alongside avant-garde, was influential in shaping Russia...
St Michael’s Castle
Timur Novikov’s Wedge. The New Academy of Fine Arts
This exhibition commemorates 65 years since the birth of Timur Novikov (1958–2002), artist and founder of two movements – New Artists in ...
Marble Palace
Ancient Myth and the Modern World
The exhibition includes around 70 paintings and sculptures from the mid-20th century to the early 21st, taken from the Russian Museum collection and from artists’...
Stroganov Palace
The name of Stanislav Zhukovsky (1875–1944) is inseparably connected with the flourishing of lyrical landscape in the Silver Age of Russian culture.
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- 27 july—28 july 2023 > The State Russian Museum Important information for the participants of the second Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg
- 29 june 2023 > Marble Palace Pianist Vladislav Mikhalchuk in the Marble Palace
Reconstruction of the courtyards of the Mikhailovsky Palace will pass without closing the museum for visitors - Events
Reconstruction of the courtyards of the Mikhailovsky Palace will pass without closing the museum for visitors
24 march 2016—24 march 2016
Reconstruction of the courtyards of the Mikhailovsky Palace will pass without displacement of the funds and closing the museum to visitors.
The first phase of the project includes covering of one of the courtyards (left) with translucent light and installation the elevator to ensure the complete availability of the Mikhailovsky Palace exhibitions to people with disabilities.
One of the tasks of the first phase of the project is the development of the museum exhibitions: the establishing of the Republican Centre of the Russian graphic art and the Graphic Cabinet in St. Michael’s Castle.
Also, the Russian Museum will be able to proceed to the restoration of the Throne Hall (267.2 square meters), the Resurrection Hall (348, 5 sq.m.), Arabesque Gallery (137 sq.m.) and other halls in St. Michael’s Castle. These works will begin after moving of the Central Naval Library (2200 square meters) from the Mikhailovsky Castle, which will start in May 2016.
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