Collection

The collection of foreign artists’ works started to form in 1960. The painting section is represented by 50 works of the Dutch, Venetian, German, French,… Read More »WESTERN EUROPEAN ART

The Fine Arts Museum contains a unique collection of art works on the theme of the Karelo-Finnish epic poem “Kalevala”. At present, it counts about… Read More »Epic Poem Kalevala in the Art of Karelian, Russian and foreign artists

The collection of fine arts of Karelia of 20 century has about 3 thousand works and includes paintings, sculptures and graphic works, decorative and applied… Read More »KARELIAN ART OF XX CENTURY

The Museum possesses a most valuable collection of Russian art of the 20th century. It counts about four thousand works created by artists from Moscow,… Read More »RUSSIAN ART OF XX CENTURY

Today Russian art is represented by paintings, graphics and sculptures (over 600 exhibits). A large part of the collection came in the early 1960s from… Read More »RUSSIAN ART OF EARLY XVIII-XX CENTURIES

The collection of folk art counts over 2000 works. It includes collections of costumes, embroidery, weaving, wood carving and painting, birch bark, copper and ceramic… Read More »DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ART OF KARELIA OF XIX-XX CENTURIES

The gem of the museum is the icon collection containing 2500 exhibits. Nearly all the icons were collected on the territory of modern Karelia reflecting… Read More »ANCIENT RUSSIAN ART (icon painting) XV-XIX centuries