Add review about Museum of Fine Arts. S.D. Erzi

In importance this republican museum is probably the main one in Saransk . He owns the world's most extensive collection of works by the well-known sculptor Stepan Dmitriyevich Erzy . The museum's collection has more than 200 exhibits created by the sculptor . Also in the museum you can see a collection of paintings by the People's Artist of the Republic of F . @ Syutkov . Sychkova and another Mordovinian - portraitist And . . Makarova . In addition, the museum has a fairly extensive collection, kinds of fine art: sculpture, alive inventory, graphics . Here exhibitions on Russian art of the 18th-19th centuries, as well as contemporary art, works by local masters and arts and crafts .

are open. In 2002 the museum was ranked by the republican government to especially valuable objects cultural heritage of the Mordovian people.

The museum has a rather extensive collection, in which all kinds of fine art are represented: sculpture, painting, graphics.

The museum was opened in 1960 . He occupied a house on Sovetskaya Street, the current exhibition hall museum . At that time the museum He named the name . Sychkov and was called the art gallery . In 1987 . there was a reorganization, during which the gallery became a museum, and a new name was given to him in 1995 . The main building of the museum consists of two parts . The western part was built earlier and the end of construction in 1976 . was timed to the centenary of the birth of Erzi . The Eastern Corps was built in 1985 . Two parts are connected to each other by a gallery on the second floor . @ In 2001 the . buildings were completely restored . The third building, in which the exhibition hall is located, was built oen in the middle of the 20th century and stands next to the building of the drama theater; they are connected by a small inset .

There are only eight halls on two floors in the museum . Here are collected works reflecting all the periods of Erzie's creativity: 198 sculptures, five paintings, three drawings and two hundreds of pieces of rare South American breeds wood the artist started to work . A part of the exhibits arrived here from the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg . There are about 600 genre paintings in the collection of works . Sychkova . Other exhibits, samples of Russian pre-Soviet art, were also transferred to the museum from Russian the museum , The Tretyakov Gallery and other cultural institutions of the country . Here are collected about 350 works, including the works of Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Korovin, Savrasov and t . d . Among them a special place is occupied by more than 20 portraits And . K . Makarova, born in Saransk .

Video tour of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. SD Erzya, part 1

The collection of graphics presents no less than high-profile names: here you can see the drawings of remarkable Russian artists of the 18th century: Shishkin, Egorov, Kiprensky. It also presents etchings of the 19th century with paintings by Repin, Shishkin, Ge, Polenov. The beginning of the 20th century in museum collections is represented by the creations of Serov, Benoit, Ostroumova-Lebedeva

The collection of icons of the museum consists mainly of works from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. The sculpture collection is the least widely represented, there are a little more than 20 sculptural exhibits in the museum, but among them there are works by such outstanding masters as Rastrelli and Pimenov.

The collections of paintings, drawings and sculptures of the Soviet period are especially curious. In total, more than 2,500 works have been collected here. In the collection you can see watercolors, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, book illustrations.

The Museum of Fine Arts has several branches . Firstly, it is the Museum of Mordovian folk culture, founded in 1999 .; it is located on Sovetskaya street, in the pre-revolutionary building, ranked on the monuments of urban architecture . The collection of this museum has collected more than 3, 5 thousand . exhibits, among which - national costumes and household items, tools, church art objects, sculptures from the tree, as well as documents and photographs . There are several thematic halls dedicated to folk festivities, the life of women in Mordovia villages, rituals and beliefs .

The second branch of the art museum is the Erzya House Museum, which is located in c le Baevo in Ardatov district. The museum was established in 1976 and occupies a traditional wooden cottage near the place where the family estate of the sculptor's family was located. The museum is easily recognized by the monument at the entrance.

The third branch of the Museum of Fine Arts is located in the village Kochelaevo, Kovylkinsky district. This is the House Museum of the artist Sychkov.

Practical information

Address: st. Communist, 61. The exhibition hall is located at ul. Soviet, 29. Museum of Mordovian folk culture is located at ul. Sovetskaya, 19.

The Museum of Fine Arts is located in the heart of Saransk, a five-minute walk from the cathedral, opposite the Democratic Street. Here you can get from the railway station by bus No. 7 or by bus number 20 or from the bus station by trolleybus No. 12 or by buses No. 1E, 6 and 26.

Working time: daily from 9:00 to 18:00, except Monday

Input: $ 150 (February 2015).