Things to do in Yekaterinburg, Urals District: The Best Art Museums

The Museum of Naive Art was opened in an old mansion on November 18, 2017, on the historic birthday of Ekaterinburg. The naive art collection of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is the largest collection of the Ural naive, formed on the basis of the collection of Yevgeny Roizman.

Ural branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts is a museum and exhibition center and a research organization. Established in 1999 the EbNCCA states its mission as introduction and dissemination of contemporary art in public urban spaces. Since 2005 the Center's team has implemented several big cultural projects, such as premier-retrospective of Ulay "Performing light", the public-art festival "Stolpotvorenie", international exhibition project "IN TRANSITION RUSSIA", two consecutive annual festival-laboratories "Art-Factory", and others.

Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is one of the largest art museums in the Ural region. The museum of fine arts has 2 buildings. They are located in the historical part of Yekaterinburg. The museum is famous for the unique collection of Kasli cast-iron moulding and ,of course, the Kasli cast iron pavilion. The collection includes works of Russian and European artists of XVIII-XX centuries. The museum has a collection of icons, including rare examples of the Orthodox icons of the XVI century.