Russian Museum
Established | 1895 |
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Coordinates | 59°56′18.931″N 30°19′55.996″E / 59.93859194°N 30.33222111°E |
Type | Art museum and Historic site |
Visitors | 2,260,231 (2021), second globally[1] |
Website | Russian Museum Website |
The State Russian Museum (
Creation
The
After the
Architecture
The main building of the museum is the
Some of the halls of the palace retain the Italianate opulent interiors of the former imperial residence.
The project of Benois Building (or 'Corpus Benua') was developed in 1910-1912 by the famous Russian architect
Collection
Today the collection shows Russian art from the 10th century up to the 21st century, covering all genres from the old Russian icon painting to contemporary art.[6]
Restoration of the museum property
All process on the restoration of works of art in the Russian Museum is carried out at the Museum Valuables Restoration Service.
The need to set up a special restoration workshop at the Russian Museum was first raised in 1906. At that time, the artist and restorer A. Boravskiy drew up his famous project to set up a restoration workshop at the Russian Museum.[7] However, owing to a lack of funds, he was not destined to succeed.
It was in 1922 that the restoration workshop of the Russian Museum was established. Its first director was the painter-restorer N.A. Okolovich. The restoration workshop consisted of two sections: the main one, which worked for the Museum, and the regional one, which was engaged in saving cultural monuments in Petrograd and other cities of Russia.
In 1935, the Conservation and Restoration Department was divided into laboratories and sections: painting, new painting, sculpture, applied art and folk art.[8]
During the 1950s and 1960s, new workshops were set up. In 1953, a workshop for graphic arts restoration, in 1954 for Old Russian painting, in 1961 for wooden sculpture, decorative carving and furniture and a workshop for textile restoration, in 1969 for plaster and stone sculpture and 1970 for applied art.
At present, the restoration department is made up of 16 workshops (sectors) for all types of materials, employing, its figures, 95 people. and gilded carving, carved icons and wooden sculpture, picture frames, plaster and stone sculpture, contemporary art objects (established in 2010). The department is staffed by artists with the highest and the highest restoration category. The department includes a sector of chemical and biological research and a sector of the history and theory of museum restoration.
In 2014, the Department of Restoration of Museum Properties restored 4,511 exhibits, of which 280 were restored with special complexity. 5,930 exhibits were prepared for 77 museum exhibitions (preparation of preservation reports, preventive conservation and restoration, packing and unpacking of exhibits). 150 meetings of the Restoration Commission were held, at which the most important issues on the research and methods of restoration of museum exhibits were considered.[10]
As of 1 January 2019, the Department of Restoration of Museum Estates was transformed into the Service of Restoration of Museum Estates.[11]
Exhibits
The Ethnographic Department was originally set up in a building specially designed by Vladimir Svinyin in 1902.[12] The museum soon housed gifts received by Emperor's family from representatives of peoples inhabiting various regions of the Russian Empire. Further exhibits were purchased by Nicholas II and other members of his family as State financing was not enough to purchase new exhibits. In 1934, the Ethnographic Department was given the status of an independent museum: the Russian Museum of Ethnography.
Málaga branch
The city of Málaga, home to thousands of Russian expats, signed an agreement to host the first overseas branch of the State Russian Museum, which opened in March 2015. Works displayed in the Malaga branch range from Byzantine-inspired icons to social realism of the Soviet era. They are on display in 2,300 square metres (25,000 square feet)yards) of exhibition space in La Tabacalera, a 1920s tobacco factory.[13][14][15]
Gallery
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The Angel with Golden Hair (12th century)
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Dionisius, Harrowing of Hell (1495–1504)
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Simon Ushakov, The Mandylion (1658)
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Ivan Nikitin, A Malorossian Hetman (c. 1720s)
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Dmitry Levitzky, Portrait of Glafira Alymova (1776)
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Dmitry Levitzky, Portrait of Countess Anna Vorontsova (c.1790)
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Karl Brullov, The Last Day of Pompeii(1830–33)
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Ivan Aivazovsky, The Ninth Wave (1850)
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Ilya Repin, What freedom! (1903).
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Ilya Repin, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–91)
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Victor Vasnetsov, Knight at the Crossroads(1882)
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Vasily Surikov, Taking a Snow Town (1891)
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Isaak Levitan, Lake(1900)
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Léon Bakst, Ancient Horror (1908)
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Portrait of Chaliapin(1921)
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Black Square(1923)
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Boris Kustodiev, Bathing (1921)
See also
- Art Culture Museum
- Collections of the Russian Museum
- Fine Art of Leningrad
- List of museums in Saint Petersburg
References
- Art Newspaperannual visitor survey, published March 28, 2022
- ^ a b c "Государственный Русский музей" [Russian Museum] (in Russian). Culture.ru. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ^ Lee Cheshire and José da Silva (27 March 2023). "The 100 most popular art museums in the world—who has recovered and who is still struggling?". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
- ^ Italianate opulent interiors Archived 2005-02-20 at the Wayback Machine, Russian Museum, Russia.
- ^ "Корпус Бенуа" [Corpus Benua] (in Russian). Culture.ru. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ^ "10 фактов о Русском музее" [10 Facts about the Russian Museum] (in Russian). Culture.ru. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ISSN 2307-5937.
- ISSN 1817-6976.
- ^ "История создания и развития Службы реставрации музейных ценностей Русского музея". restoration.rusmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
- ^ "Отчет о работе Отдела реставрации Русского музея за 2014 год". restoration.rusmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
- ^ "История создания и развития Службы реставрации музейных ценностей Русского музея". restoration.rusmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
- ^ Russian Museum. Accessed 8 July 2008.
- ^ Pes, Javier; Rojas, Laurie (27 May 2014). "Russian art museum to open Spanish satellite". The Art Newspaper.
- ^ "Russian museum to open €5m branch in Spain". The Local.
- ^ "Málaga branch - Русский музей". en.rusmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
External links
- Russian Museum website (in English)
- Interiors of the Michael Palace I (in Russian)
- Interiors of the Michael Palace II (in Russian)
- Interiors of the Michael Palace III (in Russian)
- Virtual tour of the Russian Museum provided by Google Arts & Culture
- Media related to Russian Museum at Wikimedia Commons