The 10 Best Art Museums in Russia, Russia

The State Tretyakov Gallery is the national treasury of Russian fine art and contains more than 180,000 works of painting, sculpture and graphics created by generations of Russian artists.

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.

Lipetsk Folk, Decorative and Applied Arts Museum was opened in 2006 and is one of the youngest museums in Lipetsk region. The Museum's collections comprise about 6132 exhibits. The Museum has collected and carefully stores objects of peasant everyday life, fascinatingly beautiful traditional folk costumes and items of folk arts and crafts of Lipetsk land. That is why a fine permanent display of theMuseum is dedicated to the Folk Arts of the Lipetsk regionA spacious showroom the Museum holds temporary exhibitions where everyone can learn and feel the beauty of various kinds of decorative and applied arts. The Museum runs the "School of Crafts" on ceramics, artistic and traditional doll, lace making, weaving, felting and patchwork. For schoolchildren, family groups and everyone concerned the Museum offers classes and workshops that provide an opportunity to enter the world of folk culture and to feel as a potter, master of toys or lace-maker. Every year the Museum attracts more than 20.000 people. Opening hours: daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed: on Mondays and the last Friday of each month.

One of the most famous art museums in the world, this museum is housed in the Winter Palace, and contains over 2.7 million exhibits including some of the world's greatest works of art.