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 the development of icon painting in two historic regions of the Russian North – Obonezhie …
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 items belonging to 19 – first half of 20 century also including the works of …
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, St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and other artistic centers of the country. Many works of the collection …
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 art, as well as theater decorative art. It reflects the historic way of development of …
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 the Hermitage, Russian Museum, Tretyakov Gallery and private collections. The gold reserves of the collection …
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 700 exhibits. Its main part is made up by the book and easel graphic works …
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, Finnish and other schools of painting of 16 – 20 centuries. One of the most …
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