Top 10 Art Museums in Volga District, Volga District

The Mordovian Republic Fine Arts Museum named after S.D. Erzia is one of the dynamically developing cultural and educational centres of the Republic of Mordovia, the Volga Region and Russia. The museum collection is based upon the sculptures by Stepan Erzia, a world-known artist, the pictures by Fedot Sychkov, a remarkable painter, Ilya Repin's pupil, the collection of Russian art of the 19th and the 20th centuries, the works of modern artists, folk and applied arts. Despite a comparatively short term of its existence in the cultural area of Russia, the museum already has much experience in organizing regional, state and international art exhibitions. The museum, being an integral part of the world cultural area, takes a lively interest in new creative and constructive contacts and in the ways of organizing the art exhibitions, symposiums and other cultural events connected not only with the fine arts, but also with history, literature, ethnography etc. The scientific and creative potential of the Mordovian Fine Arts Museum makes it possible to develop the museum work successfully within the context of the European cultural values. It serves the development of integration processes, because Culture and Art are the two great forces connecting people of different cultural and religious traditions.

The art and exhibition complex of the Museum of history and culture of the Middle Kama region opened in 1995. Located in the former merchant's cottage, the monument of cultural heritage of Federal importance. Giving mayor merchant-lumberman P. A. Bachinina 100 years ago became a symbol of the new aspirations of the architecture, the epitome of the art Nouveau ideas of the harmony of beauty and use. Cottage Bashenina set the tone not only in architecture but also in the cultural life of Sarapul. Today, the art and exhibition complex "Villa Bashenina" invites residents and guests to get acquainted with the unique history of the house and its inhabitants, to enjoy the beauty of the old Park, make a wish at the fountain, photographed in the interiors of merchant houses. In the halls of authentic paintings by Russian and European artists of XIX - XX centuries, carved furniture, dishes, musical instruments and much more.

FUTURO is a contemporary art gallery in a unique historical place in the center of Nizhny Novgorod. We do not only sell art, graphic, sculpture, photos, art-objects of novice and well-known Russian artists. FUTURO is a multiplatform space, which combines functions of an exhibition hall with high-grade curatorial projects, a lecture platform, a cinema, a concert hall, a theatre and an art-incubator.