"The Art of Preserving":
The main building of the Irkutsk Art Museum will be open for free visits from November 12 to December 12, 2016 Automatic translate

Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukacheva joins the Art of Preservation project, organized by Sberbank in honor of the 175th anniversary of the company. This large-scale cultural and social project brought together 18 museums in 17 cities of the country: as part of the Sberbank campaign, cultural institutions open their doors to free access. For example, a museum named after A.S. Pushkin is participating in a bank project in Moscow, and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

The main building of the Irkutsk Art Museum will be open for free visits from November 12 to December 12, 2016. Especially for the Sberbank project, the museum has significantly updated the permanent exhibition. It was decided to place works from the storerooms in the halls, which aroused the greatest interest among visitors during the period of temporary exhibitions. In particular, the halls of Western European art will feature works by Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.

In the hall of Russian art of the second half of the 19th century, next to the famous work of Ilya Repin, “The Pauper. Girl-fisherman "will appear another work of this artist from the museum -" Italian "(1870).

Another striking exhibit is BF Rybchenkov’s painting Leningradskoye Shosse, which left Irkutsk for almost a year to participate in the exhibition Russia: By Air, Train, and Car, under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The exhibition was first held in the capital of Italy, then in Moscow.

Significantly updated exposition of Japanese art. Visitors will be able to see unique and rarely exhibited engravings of ukiyo-e (images of a changing world), fans and porcelain dishes. Also, new exhibits from the storerooms will complement the exposition of silver and porcelain in the halls of the museum.

As part of the project, the museum will conduct day and evening tours. December 3, 2016 - the International Day of the Disabled - a special excursion program will be presented. Recall that today special conditions are created for people with disabilities in the Irkutsk Art Museum: in the main building of the museum, people with limited mobility can use the stair-lift.

As part of the ceremonial presentation of the action, the guests were invited, together with the artist Gennady Kuzmin, to paint the painting “Facade of the building of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum”.