Sevastopol Art Museum

The Sevastopol Art Museum was opened under the name of the Sevastopol Art Gallery on November 6, 1927 on the basis of part of the collection of the Yalta Art Museum, the museums of Moscow and Petrograd. The address of the museum: SevastopolSevastopol, Nakhimov Avenue, 9.

At the beginning of the XXI century, the museum houses over 8000 works, including Renaissance monuments, paintings by "little Dutch" and Flemish masters, works of French art of the XVII-XVIII centuries, samples of Meissen porcelain and Western European bronze, canvases by Russian and Ukrainian painters of the XIX century, works of Soviet and modern art. The museum's funds received paintings by E. A. Steinberg (1882-1935, a painter who worked in Sevastopol in the 1920s) D. S. Bisti (1925-1990, a native of Sevastopol, vice-president of the USSR Academy of Arts, People's Artist of Russia), Yevpatoria batalist Yu. V. Volkov (1921-1991), Sevastopol artists E. A. Arefyev (1934-1977), N. V. Vasilenko (1933-1994) and others.

Since June 1, 2018, due to the start of repair and restoration work of the building on Nakhimov Avenue, the expositions in it have been closed. For the period of repair work from the second half of August 2018 to 2020, the modified permanent exhibition worked at 70 General Ostryakov Avenue (at the Moscow cinema, on the 2nd floor).

In 1931, the department of Soviet art was founded and an engraving cabinet was created. In 1941, on the eve of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the exposition of the Sevastopol museum numbered two and a half thousand works of painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative and applied art. During the second defense of Sevastopol, the main part of the collection was removed thanks to the actions of the director of the art gallery M. P. Kroshitsky; at the same time, part of the exposition of the Museum of the Black Sea Fleet was located in the gallery, since the building of the military history Museum was destroyed. After the end of the war, the exhibits of the Sevastopol Art Gallery were located in Simferopol, since Sevastopol was almost completely destroyed, and the museum building burned down. On November 5, 1956, the Sevastopol Gallery resumed its work. Since 1965 it was named the Sevastopol Art Museum, in 1991 the museum was named after Mikhail Pavlovich Kroshitsky.

The Yalta Art Museum was created from the private collections of the Southern Coast of Crimea and the summer imperial residence in the Livadia Palace, nationalized in 1920, and provided the largest share of the exhibits of the newly created gallery. Initially, the collection consisted of about 500 works.

The Sevastopol Art Museum was opened under the name of the Sevastopol Art Gallery on November 6, 1927 on the basis of part of the collection of the Yalta Art Museum, the museums of Moscow and Petrograd. The address of the museum: Sevastopol, Nakhimov Avenue, 9.