Belarusian National art museum contains one of the most large collections artistic works. The museum is actively developing and has become a real art space of the Republic of Belarus.
National Art Museum: history
The history of this museum begins in 1939. When in the building of the communist agricultural school ( former building women's gymnasium) a state art gallery was opened. The gallery occupied 15 halls, in which there were departments of graphics, sculpture, and painting.
Museum workers actively collected works of art from museums in Belarusian cities. Several works were donated by Moscow museums and galleries. By 1941, the gallery's collection amounted to more than 2,500 works. Objects of painting, art industry, antique furniture and tapestries, Meissen and various mantel clocks were collected.
In 1941, on June 28, German troops entered Minsk. The gallery was looted and most valuable exhibits taken to Germany. The Minsk gallery did not have time to describe all the collected exhibits, so a huge part of them never returned.
After the war, only a small part of the works that were at exhibitions in Russia at that time were returned. Since 1944, the gallery was located in the House of Trade Unions. Two years later, the gallery contained about 300 works, including those by K. Bryullov, I. Levitan, and B. Kustodiev. Later they began to design a new building for it.
On November 5, 1957, a new building of the State Art Museum of the BSSR was opened. In 1993, the museum became known as the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus with an emphasis on the national art of the country.
Museum building
Initially, the museum building was planned to be located on the corner of Kirov and Lenin streets. The main entrance was supposed to be from Ulyanovskaya Street. The author of the project is M.I. Baklanov planned to create a building in the Empire style with columns and semi-circular windows.
The design ideas for the building had to be revised when another plot of land with adjacent buildings was allocated for it. Baklanov changed the design so that the new building would fit in with the buildings around it.
The National Art Museum significantly expanded its collection, and later extensions were added to the building. In 2007, the museum was reconstructed. The idea of the new architect of the building, Vitaly Belyakin, was to create a kind of museum city where the past and present are connected. Modern Museum decorated with decorative stucco, arches and columns, and the dome of the building is made of glass.
In the future, they plan to create a museum quarter in Minsk, in the center of which there will be a national art museum. The quarter will house new pavilions for works of art, souvenir shops and art cafes will open, and a sculpture park will be located in the courtyard.
Museum expositions
The museum houses about 27,000 works. The exhibits in the museum are divided into collections, which present collections of both national and world art. World art mainly represented by the works of masters of East and Western Europe.
The ancient Belarusian collection is represented by decorative and applied art, which dates back to the 10th-12th centuries, as well as medieval archaeological finds. Here you can see an ancient glassware, chess figurines, stone carved icons, wooden plastic objects, jewelry items for religious purposes (chalices, liturgical kelikhs).
The paintings of the National Art Museum are represented by the collection of Russian art of the 18th-20th centuries. Sculptures, objects of decorative and applied art and graphics number about three thousand exhibits. The collection includes works by Fyodor Bruni, Maxim Vorobyov, Dmitry Levitsky, Vasily Troponin and others.
In addition to those listed, the museum also houses collections of Belarusian art XIX-XX centuries, European art of the 16th-20th centuries and oriental art of the 14th-20th centuries.
Oriental art is represented by ceramics and porcelain, painted enamels, wood and bone carvings, paintings, miniatures, sculptures and weaving products.
Events
In addition to exhibitions, the museum hosts a lot of interesting events. A children's art workshop is open here for children. The museum hosts meetings with artists, master classes and musical evenings.
Over the years of its existence, the museum has established itself in research activities. NHM workers restore works of art and maintain an electronic catalogue. Albums and books about art are published. The last book, released by the museum, is dedicated to Belarusian artists XIX-XX centuries.
Visitors can attend lectures and interactive excursions dedicated to national and world art. In the museum art cafe, everyone can watch thematic films.
National Art Museum: opening hours, address
Exhibitions of expositions are open from 11.00 to 19.00, visitors can enter until 18.30.
Tuesday is a day off.
The price of excursions ranges from 50 to 165 thousand Belarusian rubles.
The National Art Museum is located in the city of Minsk, on Lenin Street, 20. It is located near Independence Avenue, near the stations and "Kulapovskaya".
Currently the director of the National Art Theater is Ivanovich Prokoptsov.
Conclusion
The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus is interesting a huge amount exhibits. The museum's collections represent the national white Russian art from ancient times to modern times, as well as European and Oriental art. Various entertainment and educational events take place on its territory.
Photo: National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha
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The National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha is one of the largest art museums in the northeastern part of Russia. Such famous public and government figures as A. Sofronov, M. Amosov, artists M. Nosov and P. Romanov participated in the creation of the museum. The museum has a very rich history, and in terms of the uniqueness of its collection it is a leader in the region Far East and Siberia.
The Sakha Art Museum was founded in 1928. Its collection is based on 27 paintings from the State Tretyakov Gallery, which were donated to the republic. This collection consisted of characteristic examples of Russian painting late XIX– beginning of the 20th century A small landscape by I. Levitan deserves special attention among the paintings. Late autumn", sketches by V. Polenov from the Palestinian series, still life by K. Korovin "Bouquet", two portraits - "Portrait of Elena Snegireva" by V. Makovsky and "Lady in Black" by K. Makovsky.
In 1946, the art hall was transformed into the Yakut Museum fine arts, and in 1992 it was included in the list of objects of national and cultural heritage of the republic. In 1995, the Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after. Gabysheva to the State museum complex“National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha” with the functions of an organizational, methodological, research and educational center for all museums and art galleries located on the territory of the republic. In 1997, the National Art Museum of the RS received membership in the International Council of Museums.
Today the museum has more than 12 thousand exhibits, which include collections of Yakut, Russian and foreign art of the 16th – 21st centuries. The museum exposition consists of such sections as: “Domestic art of the 20th century”, “Art of Yakutia 1920-2000”, “Graphics of Yakutia”, “Russian art XVIII- XIX century", Yakut folk and decorative arts" and " Western European art XVI-XIX centuries.”
The museum is especially proud of its priceless collection of carved bones from the 19th-20th centuries, which is a unique cultural phenomenon.
Minsk is a city with thousand years of history in itself is a landmark of the European part of our continent and contains an incredible amount of architectural and historical monuments a must visit for everyone Slavic peoples since this is the beginning general history. Tourists often choose museums to visit in an unfamiliar city. They are not uncommon for Minsk. One of them is famous National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus.
One of the most interesting is the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2014. The museum's funds contain the largest collection of Belarusian and foreign art. The National Art Museum began its existence with the State art gallery, opened in 39 of the last century in 15 halls of the communist agricultural school, to display masterpieces collected from the museums of Vitebsk, Gomel, Mogilev and Minsk, as well as donated by the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian and Pushkin museums and the Hermitage. Later collected collection added unique items brought from castles and mansions of western Belarus, such as the famous Slutsk belts, portraits of the 16th–19th centuries. and French tapestries. The gallery did not have time to be evacuated during the Second World War and it was plundered. The location of most of the masterpieces remains unknown to this day.
At the end of the war, the gallery tried to recreate its collection anew and actively acquired paintings by Russian artists. Museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg also contributed to the expansion of the exhibition by donating several masterpieces. The gallery was renamed the State Art Museum on July 10, 1957, and on November 5 of the same year it moved to a magnificent building, decorated with allegorical sculptures, built according to the design of M. Baklanov, located on 2 floors in 10 halls and a large gallery. This building was the first museum building in the history of Soviet construction. The modern 1000 Belarusian ruble banknote was awarded the right to be depicted on the front side of this building.
Over the years, the museum continued to increase its holdings by purchasing masterpieces from private collectors, and returned a small fraction of what was stolen during the Second World War. The museum's collection became so large that the building had to be expanded with the help of extensions and neighboring buildings.
In 1993, they decided to reconstruct the museum building and rename it the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus. In 2007, the renovated museum again became available to the public. The architect V. Belyankin, responsible for the reconstruction, managed to combine modernity and history and materialize this in a beautiful building in classic style with a glass dome roof. Now the museum building, in addition to the main exhibition, houses storage and restoration workshops. Visitors can even watch the restoration process of paintings. The halls display masterpieces of all historical eras home country, Western Europe, East and Russia.
The National Art Museum today has the following collections: Ancient Belarusian, Belarusian art, Russian art, European art and the art of the countries of the East, as well as being an integral part cultural life Capitals, the museum holds meetings with art historians and artists, organizes musical and literary evenings, presentations of books and paintings by contemporary masters, and also holds film screenings about art and concerts.
The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus participates in the international “Night at the Museum” campaign, creates unique art projects, and offers interactive programs to visitors. The museum has a permanent exhibition and updates temporary exhibitions.
Several years ago, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus launched and is already implementing new project called "Museum Quarter". In the near future, this project will unite a complex of galleries and include modern pavilions, as well as shops selling replicas of classics, works of art by modern masters and, of course, books about art.
The museum quarter will also have a café, a courtyard with a sculpture park and a glass dome roof. In the courtyard you can enjoy live classical music, which is an integral addition to the cultural heritage of Belarus. Thus, National Art Museum will turn into the most interesting attraction to visit in Minsk.
Minsk, st. Lenina, 20
11.00 – 19.00 (museum)
11.00 – 18.30 (ticket office), Tue – closed
375 17 327 71 63
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The decision to create an art museum was made in September 1943. The art hall, which existed since 1925, received the status of an independent institution in 1946, and at the same time, by order of the Department of Arts of the Council of People's Commissars of the YASSR, it was transformed into the Yakut Museum of Fine Arts.
The basis of the museum’s collection is 27 paintings from the funds of the State Tretyakov Gallery, donated to the republic back in 1928. This small collection represented a selection of characteristic examples of Russian painting of the second half of the 19th century– beginning of the 20th century. Among the paintings one can note the small landscape “Late Autumn” by I.I. Levitan with his brother's autograph confirming the author's ownership of the brush famous artist; sketches by V.D. Polenova from the Palestinian series; widely and freely written still life “Bouquet” (1908) by K.A. Korovin, which is reflected characteristic features"Russian impressionism" and two portraits - attractive female images- “The Lady in Black” (1864) K.E. Makovsky and “Portrait of Elena (?) Snegireva” (1897) by V.E. Makovsky, coming from the Tsvetkovskaya Gallery. These works, by their pictorial merits and the significance of the names presented, initially set a qualitative level that largely determined the path for the further formation of the collection.
The collection also includes items from the storerooms of other museums. In 1954-1955, a small but interesting collection of small sculptures made of bronze and bone, porcelain, objects with cloisonne enamel, and scroll paintings by masters of Japan, China, Tibet and Mongolia of the 17th-20th centuries were transferred from the funds of the Museum of Oriental Art. Among these items, Japanese folk miniature sculpture - the famous netsuke - as well as openwork Chinese carvings are of undoubted interest. The section of oriental art continues to grow due to gifts and acquisitions of the museum.
A bright page in the history of museums in the republic was the gratuitous transfer in 1962 of more than 250 works of Western European art of the 16th-19th centuries from the family collection of the famous Yakut scientist, Doctor of Economics, Professor Mikhail Fedorovich Gabyshev (1902-1958). As part of the gift it can be noted Italian masters- Niccolò Renieri (c. 1590-1667), Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687-1767), Dutch artists- Alexandra Adriansen (1587-1661), Frederico de Moucheron (1633-1686), excellent portraits of an unknown Flemish master of the first quarter of the 17th century.
The museum has a large number of works that can be considered as programmatic for the creative heritage of many Yakut artists.
Winner of the competition "Changing Museum in a Changing World" 2009 Project "Biennale of Young Art "Here and Now"
In this issue, the project “Museums of Belarus together with BELKART” invites you to virtual tour by the National Art Museum. This is the place where a unique collection of art objects is collected, originals by Aivazovsky, Shishkin and Pukirev are kept. Read below to see how rich and varied the National Art Museum’s collection is. In every big city there are special places. There are places that people visit to be considered fashionable; there are places that give you the right to be named cultured person; and there are those that you come to at the call of your soul and heart, those in which you begin to understand that the beautiful and delightful are very close. For 76 years now, there has been a place in Minsk where people come to enjoy its picturesque splendor. And this place is the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus. The exhibition, branches and storage facilities of this museum contain more than thirty thousand works, which form twenty diverse collections and make up two main museum collections: a collection of national art and a collection of art monuments of countries and peoples of the world.
The official history of the museum begins on January 24, 1939, when, by resolution of the Council People's Commissars The BSSR State Art Gallery was created in Minsk. IN post-war years the gallery received a new status: from now on it was the State Art Museum. And finally, in 1993, a brand name appeared, by which we know the museum today. 
The pre-war period of the Gallery's work under the leadership of Nikolai Prokopievich Mikholap (1886–1979) was a time of intensive formation of art collections. For amazing short term employees managed to do an incredible amount of collecting exhibits: the most valuable works religious art in churches and churches; large funds of painting, graphics and decorative and applied art have been collected from the funds of museums in Belarus. Several works from their funds were donated Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin and State Hermitage Museum. The collection of the new gallery also includes works by famous Russian Soviet artists. 
After the reunification of the Western Belarusian lands with the BSSR in September 1939, the Art Gallery received works from nationalized estates and castles of Western Belarus, including part of the collection of the palace of the Radziwill princes in Nesvizh. Thus, the collection was replenished with a rich collection of Slutsk belts, French tapestries of the 18th century, portrait painting XVI – XIX centuries. At the beginning of 1941, the funds of the State art gallery The BSSR already had 2,711 works, of which 400 were on display. Gallery team, research fellows and art historians were in anticipation of a huge front of work to describe and study each monument, creating a catalog museum collection. But... But the Great began Patriotic War. In the first days of the war, the fate of the entire meeting was tragic. In a short period of time it will disappear without a trace. The collection was prepared for evacuation, but they were unable to save it and were not taken out. IN in full force and in complete safety art collection in Minsk appeared before the conquerors. The collection of the art gallery ceased to exist, and its loss can be called irreparable. The fate of the pre-war collection of the art gallery is still unknown. The second stage of the museum’s history is associated with the 33-year ascetic activity of the Honored Artist of the BSSR, Director of the Gallery since 1944, Elena Vasilievna Aladova (1907 – 1986), who headed the department of Russian and Belarusian art before the war. Thanks to the energy and enthusiasm of the few first employees, who worked selflessly, often until late at night, the museum literally “rose from the ashes.” Despite the post-war devastation, the government of the republic allocated considerable funds to purchase works for the Gallery. Russian museums helped again: State Museum them. A.S. Pushkin, State Russian Museum. E.V. Aladova obtained permission to build a special building for the Gallery. In 1957, the museum celebrated a housewarming in interiors that are familiar to all of us to this day. A tour of the exhibition at the National Art Museum begins with those halls that received visitors back in the 50s. Today it houses Russian art of the 18th – early 20th centuries. The collection of this period includes more than 5 thousand pieces of painting, sculpture, graphics and decorative and applied art created by Russian masters. In the exhibition halls you can get acquainted with the work of K.P. Bryullova, S.F. Shchedrina, I.K. Aivazovsky, V.G. Perova, N.N. Ge, I.E. Repina, I.I. Shishkin and many other luminaries of Russian art. 
However special attention should be given to the canvas of V.V. Pukirev “Unequal Marriage”, which became a kind of classic of the genre. The thing is that the Art Museum displays a version of this work, a repetition, written in 1875, i.e. 13 years after the artist created the first version of the work. Today big brother" Unequal marriage"Kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery. 
In 1993, construction began on a new museum building - an extension to the main building. This made it possible to significantly expand the exhibition area. Almost this entire building is dedicated to our national art, starting from the 12th century. and ending with contemporary artists. Having passed through the sliding portal from the “old” to the “new” building, you find yourself in a completely different museum. This contrast makes a visit to the Art Museum more memorable and varied. The expansion of the area made it possible to provide exhibition halls, which meet modern exhibition requirements and the needs of visitors. Special equipment made it possible to display real artifacts of Belarusian art of the 12th – 18th centuries for public viewing. These include numerous icons, ancient carved temple decorations, and manuscripts. Of course, it is in such special conditions that our truly national treasure- Slutsk belts. This meeting alone is worth a visit to the Art Museum! 
Of course, at the National Art Museum you can get acquainted with more than just the culture of one nation. There are two more exhibitions here, which allow you to travel beyond the borders of Belarus. Exhibition “Western European Art of the 16th – Early 20th Centuries” introduces the works of both famous and little-known artists, representing various schools, eras and movements of European art. The exhibition “Art of the Countries of the East of the XIV – XX Centuries” is also of considerable interest. The history of this collection dates back to the late 1950s, when the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China transferred a significant collection of works of decorative and applied art of China to the museum. Today the collection features traditional types art of the countries of Western, Middle, Central, South and Southeast Asia, the Caucasus and the Far East: painting and sculpture, miniatures and art folk painting, weaving and artistic metal, ceramics and porcelain, painted and cloisonne enamel, wood, bone, stone carvings, painted and carved varnishes. 
The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus has long ceased to be just a museum. It is simultaneously a concert venue, a lecture hall, an interactive location, and a temple of art. Minsk residents (and not only) are looking forward to the annual events that have already become traditional and gather, it seems, half the city - “Night of Museums” and “Verasneva Evenings”. Numerous concerts for almost every musical taste - from classical to experimental alternative performers - are held here almost every week. Interactive programs have long gained fame as the most unusual museum trend, turning the museum into a kind of flagship of this type of activity. Lectures and master classes are organized for each exhibition, which makes it possible to gain a deeper understanding of the material. With such a rich program, the whole family can spend the whole day at the museum with great pleasure. You can even take a tasty break here by stopping by the only art cafe in the country. You can visit the Art Museum at almost any convenient time, and once a month you can do it for free. A museum is a whole life! Only the lazy can afford to pass this life by. 
National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus,
Minsk, st. Lenina, 20, tel.: +375 17 327 71 63
Opening hours: 11:00 – 19:00
Ticket office and entrance for visitors: 11:00 – 18:30
Closed: Tuesday
The cost of an adult ticket to the permanent exhibition in 2016 is 50,000 rubles, and a discounted ticket is 25,000 rubles. Price excursion services– from 100,000 rubles.
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