Belarusian National Museum. National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha. National Art Museum: opening hours, address

The decision to establish 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 Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, it was transformed into the Yakut Museum of Fine Arts.

The basis of the museum's collection was 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 - early 20th century. Among the paintings, one can note a small landscape “Late Autumn” by I.I. Levitan with an autograph of his brother, confirming the authorship of the brush of the famous artist; sketches by V.D. Polenov from the Palestinian series; widely and freely painted still life "Bouquet" (1908) K.A. Korovin, which reflected the characteristic features of "Russian impressionism" and two portraits - attractive female images - "Lady in Black" (1864) by K.E. Makovsky and “Portrait of Elena (?) Snegireva” (1897) by V.E. Makovsky, originating from the Tsvetkovskaya Gallery. These works, by their pictorial merits and by the meaning of the names presented, initially set a qualitative level, which largely determined the ways of further formation of the collection.

Also in the collection are receipts 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, painting on scrolls by masters of Japan, China, Tibet and Mongolia of the 17th-20th centuries was transferred from the funds of the Museum of Oriental Art. Among these objects, of undoubted interest is Japanese folk miniature sculpture - the famous netsuke, as well as openwork Chinese carving. The Oriental art section continues to grow with donations and acquisitions from the museum.

A bright page in the history of museum work 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 economic sciences, professor Mikhail Fedorovich Gabyshev (1902-1958). The gift includes Italian masters - Niccolo Renieri (c. 1590-1667), Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687-1767), Dutch artists - Alexander 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 for Young Art "Here and Now"

Minsk, a city with a thousand-year history, is in itself a landmark of the European part of our continent and contains an incredible number of architectural and historical monuments that all Slavic peoples must visit, as this is the beginning of a common history. Often tourists choose to visit museums in an unfamiliar city. For Minsk, they are not uncommon. 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 holds 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, the Russian and Pushkin Museums and the Hermitage. Later, the collected collection was supplemented with 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.

After the end of the war, the gallery tried to recreate its collection anew and actively acquired paintings by Russian artists. The museums of Moscow and St. Petersburg also contributed to replenishing the exposition 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, erected according to the project 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. A modern banknote of 1000 Belarusian rubles has been awarded the right to be depicted on the front side of this building.

Over the years, the museum has continued to increase its holdings by purchasing masterpieces from private collectors and has returned a small fraction of what was stolen during the Second World War. The collection of the museum became so large that the building had to be expanded with the help of outbuildings and neighboring buildings.

In 1993, a decision was made 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 it in a beautiful building in a classical style with a glass dome roof. Now the museum building, in addition to the main exhibition, contains a storage and restoration workshops. Visitors can even watch the process of painting restoration. The halls display masterpieces of all historical eras of their native country, Western Europe, the East and Russia.

The National Art Museum today has the following collections of collections: Ancient Belarusian, Belarusian art, Russian art, European art and art of the East, and being an integral part of the cultural life of the Capital, the museum holds meetings with art critics and artists, organizes musical and literary evenings, presentations of books and painting by contemporary masters, as well as screenings of films about art and concerts.

The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus participates in the international campaign “Night at the Museum”, creates unique art projects, and offers visitors interactive programs. The museum has a permanent exhibition and updated temporary exhibitions.

A few years ago, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus launched and is already implementing a new project called "Museum Quarter". In the near future, this project will unite the complex of galleries and include modern pavilions, as well as shops selling replicas of the classics, works of art by contemporary 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 part of the cultural heritage of Belarus. In this way, 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 – day off

375 17 327 71 63

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The collection of ancient Belarusian art of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus is one of the largest in the country. It contains more than 1200 works of the 12th - early 19th centuries. The collections that make up the collection of ancient Belarusian art in the museum are extremely diverse and rich in content. They were formed in the post-war period through expeditions, the return of part of the pre-war funds of the museum, receipts from private individuals and government agencies.

Collection of ancient Belarusian arts and crafts includes archaeological finds from the excavations of ancient Belarusian cities of the X-XVI centuries. - household items that, in their execution, acquire the character of real works of medieval craft - chess pieces, household glassware, beads, jewelry. These are magnificent examples of sacred religious art - stone carved pectoral icons, encolpion crosses, as well as products of Belarusian goldsmiths - jewelers of the 16th-18th centuries: liturgical kelikhs, chalices, monstrances, salaries of the Gospels, chasubles for icons, votive silver plates. The collection also includes samples of weaving and embroidery of the 17th - early 19th centuries: church and church vestments made of fabrics of European and local production, fragments of the famous Slutsk belts of the second half of the 18th - early 19th centuries, belts of the Grodno manufactory.

In the 17th century "Belarusian carving" gained immense fame. Belarusian wood carvers and gilders created wonderful altars and iconostases not only in their homeland, but also in the Muscovite state. The Museum in its collections and expositions has highly artistic samples of such works as the Royal Doors from iconostases, carved columns, baroque cartouches, decorated with both relief cut-out carvings and images made in high relief technique and round, three-dimensional sculpture. In the sculpture and carving collection The ancient Belarusian collection of the museum contains such masterpieces of wooden plastic and sculpture of Belarus as the royal gates of the late 16th century. from the village of Voronilovichi, two late Gothic sculptures of archangels from the towns of Shereshevo and Yalovo, baroque sculptures from Polotsk and Kobrin.

Collection of ancient Belarusian icon painting and sacred painting- one of the most valuable in our country. This largest collection of works of Belarusian icon painting in Belarus reflects the history of the development of original religious painting, the history of the Belarusian icon from the end of the 15th century (the image of the Mother of God Hodegetria from Sluchchina) to the first decades of the 19th century. Monuments of the beginning of the 19th century still retain the traditional features of the classical Belarusian icon: carved gilded and silvered backgrounds, special iconography of plots and images. Pearls in the collection of ancient Belarusian icon painting - the icon "Savior Pantokrator" from Byten and "Mother of God Hodegetria" from Dubenets - works of the second half of the 16th century, "The Resurrection of Christ" from the middle of the 17th century from Bezdezh, "The Nativity of the Virgin" 1649.

It is known that Belarusian artists of the 16th-18th centuries, as a rule, did not sign their works. Nevertheless, the museum's collection contains several works, by the inscriptions on which one can recognize the names of their authors - artists of the 18th - early 19th centuries: Vasily Markianovich from Slutsk, Foma Silinich from Mogilev.

The core of the portrait collection make up portraits of the former Radziwill collection from the castle in Nesvizh. It is complemented by the so-called "Sarmatian portraits" - portrait images of the Belarusian gentry in traditional "Sarmatian" costumes from various private estate galleries and the Grodno Brigitte Monastery (portraits of Krzysztof and Alexandra-Marianna Veselovsky and their adopted daughter Griselda Sapieha). A part of the portrait collection of the ancient Belarusian collection is constantly exhibited in the branch of the museum "The House of Vankovichi" - from works of the 17th century. to estate portraits of the 19th century, where the traditional Belarusian Sarmatian portrait features of conventionality and representativeness are still preserved: family coats of arms and informative inscriptions, conditional movements, a frozen expression, special attention to the image of the costume.

Most of the ancient Belarusian collection of the museum, which, in addition to the above, also includes a collection of handwritten and early printed books, was found during the museum's expeditions around Belarus and entered the museum funds in the 1970-1990s. mainly from closed churches and churches. Many works were significantly damaged. They were diligently strengthened by restorers and now, despite even fragmentary preservation, they delight with the harmony of colors and the accuracy of the drawing.

There are monuments in the ancient Belarusian collection that entered the museum collections of Belarus back in the 1920s, survived during the Great Patriotic War, and were returned after it from abroad. In the second half of the 1940s - 1960s. they returned to the art museum, laying the foundation for the ancient Belarusian museum collection.

The Belarusian National Art Museum contains one of the largest collections of art 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 the state art gallery was opened in the building of the communist agricultural school (the former building of the women's gymnasium). The gallery occupied 15 halls, in which there were departments of graphics, sculpture, and painting.

Museum workers actively collected works of art from the museums of the cities of Belarus. Several works were donated by Moscow museums and galleries. By 1941, the gallery's fund consisted of more than 2,500 works. Paintings, art industry, antique furniture and tapestries, Meissen and various mantel clocks were collected.

On June 28, 1941, German troops entered Minsk. The gallery was looted and most of the valuable exhibits were 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 returned. Since 1944, the gallery has been housed in the House of Trade Unions. Two years later, the gallery had about 300 works, including K. Bryullov, I. Levitan, B. Kustodiev. Later, a new building began to be designed for her.

On November 5, 1957, a new building of the State Art Museum of the BSSR was opened. In 1993, the museum began to be called 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 at the corner of Kirov and Lenin streets. The main entrance was supposed to be from the side of Ulyanovsk street. Project author M.I. Baklanov planned to create a building in the Empire style with columns and semicircular windows.

The design ideas for the building had to be revised when another piece of land with adjacent buildings was allocated for it. Baklanov changed the design to match the new building with the surrounding houses.

The National Art Museum significantly expanded its fund, 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 the present meet. The modern museum is decorated with decorative stucco, arches and columns, and the dome of the building is made of glass.

In the future, it is planned 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 contains about 27,000 works. The exhibits in the museum are divided into collections, which represent collections of both national and world art. World art is mainly represented by the works of masters of the East and Western Europe.

The ancient Belarusian collection is represented by arts and crafts dating back to the 10th-12th centuries, as well as medieval archaeological finds. Here you can see ancient glassware, chess figurines, carved stone icons, wooden plastic items, religious jewelry items (chalices, liturgical kelikhs).

The paintings of the National Art Museum are represented by a collection of Russian art of the 18th-20th centuries. Sculptures, objects of arts and crafts, and graphics comprise 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 of the 19th-20th 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, painting, miniatures, sculptures and weaving.

Events

In addition to exhibitions, a lot of interesting events take place in the museum. For children, a children's art workshop is open here. The museum hosts meetings with artists, master classes and musical evenings.

For all the years of its existence, the museum has established itself in research activities. Workers of the National Art Museum carry out the restoration of works of art and maintain an electronic catalog. Albums and books about art are published. The latest book published by the museum is dedicated to Belarusian artists of the 19th-20th centuries.

Visitors can attend lectures and interactive tours dedicated to national and world art. In the museum art cafe, everyone can watch themed films.

National Art Museum: opening hours, address

Exhibitions of expositions are open from 11.00 to 19.00, the entrance of visitors is carried out 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 artistic Ivanovich Prokoptsov.

Conclusion

The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus is interesting with a huge number of exhibits. The museum's collections represent national Belarusian art from ancient times to the present, as well as European and Oriental art. Various recreational and educational activities are held on its territory.