The State Museum of Fine Arts of Orenburg has for many years been a cultural heritage not only of the city itself, but of all of Russia. The museum contains a huge number of rare and unique exhibits, and also actively holds impressive educational events and exhibitions that simply can not leave visitors indifferent.
The article describes the Museum of Fine Arts of Orenburg, tells about the history of its occurrence. The article also contains a detailed description of the museum's exhibition events, cultural and leisure programs and special performances organized by its employees.
Museum
The Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts is a unique collection of all kinds of objects of past eras. By its type, it refers to institutions whose fund consists mainly of works of art.
Address of the Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts: Orenburg, 29 Kashirin Lane.
For many years, museum staff has been maintaining, restoring and exhibiting a wide variety of collections, including works of ancient Russian, Russian, Soviet, Western European and Oriental art. In addition to Russian art, the museum’s collection includes exhibits from Japan, Greece, Romania, Norway, Denmark, Yugoslavia and many other countries.
The genre division of the values collected by the museum is also striking. Within its walls are objects of painting, graphics, sculpture, arts and crafts, as well as elements of architecture.
The museum carefully stores the works of I.K. Aivazovsky, A.K. Savrasov, F.A. Malyavin and many other prominent representatives of the Russian school of painting.
Despite the great variety of exhibits displayed in the museum, the institution’s employees consider preserving the artistic culture of their native land and reviving the folk traditions of the Orenburg region to be the main priority.
The museum collection exhibited a large number of paintings and sculptures made by local craftsmen.
The art of various artisans of Orenburg is widely represented: the museum contains a considerable number of folk art objects, including the famous down shawls of regional production, which have long become a symbol of the city.
History
The history of the Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts originates from the building of the State Duma, which was built in the middle of the century before last by architect Mikhail Malakhov. In 1960, the Orenburg Regional Committee decided to create an art museum on the basis of the former building of the City Duma, and the next year the building was completely renovated, and the first exhibits were placed at the disposal of the museum.
They became objects from the donated collection of Lucian Popov, a famous collector and connoisseur of painting. It was his collection for many years that was located in the main hall of the museum.
In 2012, the museum opened an updated central exhibition hall, which periodically exhibits works by great masters of painting and sculpture.
Since 2014, the museum has been called the Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Orenburg.
Exhibitions
The Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts constantly holds various exhibitions dedicated to not only famous people or holiday dates, but also various historical events, as well as cultures of different nations.
The exhibition “Dolls and Holidays in Japan” is very popular among children and adults, which presents original Japanese dolls from the century before last, as well as attributes of various religious and secular holidays of the Land of the Rising Sun.
A biographical stand entitled “Salvador Dali: Surrealism is Me” has been regularly shown to everyone for more than a year. The exhibition is particularly highly attended, as, in addition to the reproductions of the paintings of the great master, it also contains draft working materials by Dali, his diary notes and drafts.
Exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts of Orenburg are very popular with both city residents and foreign tourists. People from all over the world come to the city to appreciate the incredible beauty of Russian art.
The museum’s traditional exhibition and musical event “Wonderful smells of the New Year” has been loved by adults and children for many years. It tells about the first perfumery products traditionally produced for the holiday, the first New Year's cards and examples of old congratulations are shown.
Collections
The Museum of Fine Arts of Orenburg has a huge number of thematic collections, each of which is dedicated to a particular artist or historical era.
The museum presents the “Collection of decorative and applied art”, “the Collection of naive art”, “the collection of Soviet art of the 50s”.
Each of the collections was carefully selected by the museum staff and passed the test of time and audience sympathy.
The museum also houses a unique collection of Orenburg downy shawls, which has no analogues not only in Russia but throughout the world. It presents more than two hundred samples of knitted scarves, including one of the first such scarves created in the Orenburg region.
Courses
Since 2009, the Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts has been conducting free courses on drawing and studying the theory of art painting. The courses are available to everyone without age restrictions and are incredibly popular among both children and the adult population of the city.
Pupils of the studio gain a wide artistic horizons, learn to understand artistic trends, analyze the specifics of creating various works of art, gain skills in drawing and drawing, learn to own various art materials: tempera, gouache, oil paints, pastels.
Also on the basis of the museum’s art courses there is a lecture on the history of world art, in which you can listen to a course of lectures covering the colossal period of world art.
Matinees
A good festive tradition for the Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts was the holding of New Year's musical mornings for children of preschool and school ages.
Costumed performances played by the museum staff represent a fascinating journey into the fabulous world of art and mythology. In addition to fun contests, educational programs and interesting games, all visitors to the matinee will find historical quizzes, congratulations from fairy-tale characters and sweet gifts.
Literary and artistic programs
The Orenburg Regional Museum of Fine Arts in Orenburg has long been developing its own concept of a unique educational program, the essence of which is to analyze the painting by “reading it” under the guidance of an experienced teacher and art critic.
Children learn to describe the picture, highlighting the main and secondary details of the image, determining the character of the characters and the atmosphere of the background surrounding them.
Visitors to the program can work both singly and in pairs or groups. Such a system of interaction develops in children the ability to cooperate with each other, to analyze what they saw, to highlight the main thing, as well as the skills to describe the key processes of what is happening around.
Virtual tour
Thanks to a special program, anyone can visit the museum from anywhere in the world where there is an Internet network. Remote access to the museum is absolutely free and available at any time. The user will be able to see all the main halls of the museum, visit a large number of exhibitions and see the latest exhibitions, including unique art objects located in the vaults.
The program allows the user to choose in which order to visit the halls of the museum. Also, an Internet visitor can get all available information about any museum exhibit.
Tours
Museum staff regularly conduct tours of the exhibition halls of the institution. There are several types of excursions:
- full (includes visits to all the halls of the museum, accompanied by an experienced art guide);
- selective (the visitor chooses the halls that he would like to visit accompanied by a specialist);
- Sightseeing (study tour through the halls of the museum, giving a general idea of the institution).
