The Sevastopol Art Museum was opened under the name of the Sevastopol Art Gallery on November 6, 1927 on the basis of part of the collection of the Yalta Art Museum, museums in Moscow and Petrograd . Museum address: Sevastopol , Nakhimov Avenue , 9. Since June 1, 2018, in connection with the start of repair and restoration work on the building on Nakhimov Avenue, the expositions are closed. For the period of repair work from the second half of August 2018 to 2020, a modified permanent exhibition works at 70 Prospect General Ostryakova (at the cinema "Moscow", on the 2nd floor).
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Museum History
The Yalta Art Museum was created from private collections of the Southern Coast of Crimea and the summer imperial residence in the Livadia Palace , nationalized in 1920 , and provided the largest share of the exhibits of the newly created gallery. Initially, the collection consisted of about 500 works.
In 1931, the foundation was laid for the department of Soviet art and an engraving office was created. In 1941 , on the eve of the beginning of World War II, the exposition of the Sevastopol Museum numbered two and a half thousand works of painting, graphic art, sculpture and decorative and applied art. During the second defense of Sevastopol, the main part of the meeting was removed due to the actions of the director of the art gallery M. P. Kroshitsky ; at the same time, the gallery contained part of the exposition of the Black Sea Fleet Museum , since the building of the military-historical museum was destroyed. After the war, the exhibits of the Sevastopol Art Gallery were in Simferopol , since Sevastopol was almost completely destroyed, and the museum building burned down. On November 5, 1956, the Sevastopol Gallery resumed work. Since 1965 it was called the Sevastopol Art Museum , in 1991 the museum was named after Mikhail Pavlovich Kroshitsky.
At the beginning of the 21st century , the museum houses over 8,000 works, including Renaissance monuments, paintings by “ small Dutch ” and Flemish masters, works of French art of the 17th – 18th centuries, samples of Meissen porcelain and West European bronze, canvases of Russian and Ukrainian painters of the 19th century, works Soviet and modern art. The funds of the museum received paintings by E. A. Steinberg (1882-1935, a painter who worked in Sevastopol in the 1920s) D. S. Bisti (1925-1990, a native of Sevastopol, vice president of the USSR Academy of Arts, people's artist of Russia) , the Yevpatoria battalist Yu. V. Volkov (1921-1991), Sevastopol artists E. A. Arefiev (1934-1977), N. V. Vasilenko (1933-1994) and others.