443099, Samara, ulitsa Kuybysheva, 92
Closed Tuesdays
Director: Vladimir Nikolayevich Vostrikov
Tel. (846) 332-23-50, Fax: (846) 333-46-50
E-mail: artmus@samtel.ru
1897: the art department of the Samara Public Museum; 1914: the art department of the Samara Gubernia Museum; 1919: the art department of the Samara Gubernia Research Museum; 1918: the art department of the Mid-Volga State Museum of Regional History; 1937: the Kuybyshev Regional Art Museum; 1976: the Kuybyshev Regional Art Museum; 1991: the Samara Regional Art Museum. Open to the public since 1897.
In 1897, a group of Samara artists created an art department at the city’s public museum. The core of its future collection was made up of a gift of paintings. The department subsequently acquired the collections of the Shikhobalov merchant family, brewery owner Alfred von Wakano and other Samara collectors. After 1917 it took over the collections of the Samara archeological and ethnographical society.
The Samara Art Museum is one of the most prestigious in the Volga region. Its collection includes some 15,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures and pieces of applied art. Its core is comprised of Russian art of the 16th to 21st centuries. The culture and art of Samara is allotted a special place in the museum. The permanent display also represents the art of Western Europe, China, Japan and India. In addition to the main building on 92 Kuybyshev Ulitsa, which shows classical and avant-garde artworks from Russia and abroad, there is a contemporary art department (1 Kuybyshev Ploshchad). The latter location also houses the Valentin Purygin Studio Museum and the Vasilyev Family Memorial Museum.
It occupies the building: of the former Volga-Kama Bank, built in 1915
The museum has a branch in the village of Shiryayevo, in the Shiryayevo Museum and Tourism Complex:
- The Ilya Repin Memorial Museum (a one-story wooden house, the former estate of the peasant Alexeyev, late 19th century). The branch is located in the house where Ilya Repin and Fyodor Vasilyev stayed in the summer of 1870. The foundation owns documents and artworks concerning the history and culture of the region, including relics of peasant life and reproductions.
- The A.V. Shiryayev memorial museum (1890)
- The Vdovin estate museum (featuring the exhibition «Russian artists in the Samara Gubernia»)
