Museum of a painting named after G.V. Myasnikov

A unique museum of this kind in Russia and the world. It does not have a permanent exposure. The attention of visitors (the hall is designed for 37 seats) is represented by one single painting, a detailed story about which is preceded by a slide film about the life and work of the artist. The session lasts 45 minutes. It includes a slide film telling about the culture of the era when the artist lived and worked. On slides, viewers get acquainted with the work of the master, his most significant works. At the end of the film, the curtain opens and the audience sees a picture, the screening of which is also accompanied by explanatory text and music.

All literary and musical compositions were staged according to the scripts of Moscow writer V.I. Porudominsky, directed by L. B. Velednitskaya . The text was read by leading actors of the capital's theaters: Mikhail Ulyanov, Oleg Efremov, Oleg Tabakov, Rostislav Plyatt and others. Director of slide films V. P. Sazonov.

The museum is located in a building that is an architectural monument of the second half of the XIX century.

The author of the idea and the initiator of the creation of the museum is Georg Vasilievich Myasnikov (1926-1996), the second secretary of the Penza regional committee of the CPSU. On March 6, 2002 the museum was given his name, and a memorial plaque dedicated to G.V. Myasnikov was opened on the museum building. After the opening of this museum, according to Academician D. S. Likhachev, the "Penza Museum Renaissance" began.

In January 2013, it was closed for re-equipment with new multimedia technologies and repairs. The museum is currently operating as usual. Every day, except Thursday, at 13:00 a session for single visitors is mandatory.

According to the Russian edition of Forbes magazine (2011), the museum is one of six notable museums in the world (under No. 3) dedicated to one thing that deserves everyone’s attention ^[2] .

From 1983 to the present, the museum has exhibited 20 paintings and one icon:

• V.I. Surikov, " Taking the Snow Town " (1983, from the collection of the State Russian Museum )
• N. N. Ge " Peter I interrogates Tsarevich Alexei in Peterhof " (1983, from the collection of the State Russian Museum)
• P. A. Fedotov “ Matchmaking of the Major ” (1984, from the collection of the State Russian Museum)
• A. A. Plastov “Spring” (1984, from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery ),
• V. Popkov “The Overcoat of the Father” (1985, from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery)
• I. Ya. Repin “Vostochnitsy” (1985, from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery)
• I. I. Shishkin “Ship Grove” (1986, from the collection of the State Russian Museum)
• Titian “Portrait of a Young Woman” (1987, from the collection of the State Hermitage )
• KS Petrov-Vodkin “After the Battle” (1987, from the collection of the Museum of the Armed Forces )
• V. L. Borovikovsky "Portrait of Prince Kurakin " (1988, from the collection of the State Russian Museum)
• A. K. Savrasov “Spring Day” (1989, from the collection of the Vladimir Art Museum)
• Rembrandt and Jan Victors “Abraham and the Three Angels” (1990, from the collection of the State Hermitage)
• V. M. Vasnetsov “ Carpet-plane ” (1991, from the collection of the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum )
• I.I. Levitan “October” (1992, from the collection of the Samara Museum of Art )
• B. M. Kustodiev " Portrait of F. I. Chaliapin " (1994, from the collection of the State Russian Museum).
• Icon of the Mother of God of Kazan (2005-2009, from the collection of the Penza diocese ).
• I. I. Shishkin “Aspen Forest” (2009—2013, from the collection of the Penza Art Gallery )
• Denis Santalov (Penza, contemporary artist) “The temple is under construction ...” (2013—2015)
• Franz Winterhalter “Portrait of Varvara Dmitrievna Rimsky-Korsakova” (2015—2016, from the collection of the Penza Art Gallery )
• K. D. Flavitsky “ Princess Tarakanova ” (2016—2017, author's repetition from the collection of the Penza art gallery )
• I.K. Makarov “Girls-sisters (Portrait of Lisa and Natasha Arapovs)” (from the collection of the Penza Art Gallery )

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• Penza Museum of one painting on the site "Museums of Russia"
• Museum building on Penza map with panorama
• Museum of one painting to them. G.V. Myasnikov on the website of the Government of the Penza Region
• Museum of one painting on the site of the III summer Spartakiad of students of Russia, held in Penza
• Renewal of the exposition of the world's only museum of one painting , the Express TV channel, 02/25/2009

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