Museum "Tsarskoye Selo Collection"
Near the Tsarskoye Selo Youth House, at the intersection of Magazeynaya and Leontyevskaya streets, it’s hard not to notice a building with a hanging bay window - the Tsarskoye Selo Collection Museum, which attracts attention with its unique architecture in the Art Nouveau style with Gothic decorative elements. The house was built in 1909 for the widow of State Councilor Maria Stetkevich according to the design of the architect G. G. Golly.
Address:
Pushkin, st. Magazeynaya, 40, St. Petersburg
Telephone:
(812) 466-04-60
Before the revolution, the councilor occupied the first floor; she rented the second floor to the priest's family.
After 1917, they decided to “densify” the house - its premises were distributed as communal rooms. The previous residents had to make room. In this status, gradually deteriorating, the house existed until 1987, until artists became seriously interested in its fate. By this time, the building was finally converted into non-residential use and resettled. As for his condition, it was impossible to call it anything other than deplorable. The authorities seriously raised the issue of demolition. However, an initiative group of artists managed to defend the future museum. State Museum “Tsarskoye Selo Collection”
In February 1990, the public organization “Gallery” opened here, a year later the first permanent exhibition appeared, and in 1992 the museum acquired its current name: “Tsarskoye Selo Collection”.
The status of a state museum was awarded in 1996. And in 2009, the building was completely restored in accordance with its original appearance. The founder of the museum and its permanent director to this day is Alexander Nekrasov. Today the museum is a collection of exhibits of painting, graphics, sculpture, and, more recently, also photographs of authors of the twentieth century, more precisely, the period from 1917 to the beginning of this century.
In total, its holdings contain more than 4,000 works of art, eloquently demonstrating the life and spiritual trends of the official (Union of Artists), but even more so of the unofficial creative environment - the so-called underground. Currently, the museum has five exhibition halls, in which permanent exhibitions are divided by period: works of the 30s-70s, works of the 70s-2000s.
They present works by artists of the Arefiev Circle (A. Arefiev, R. Vasmi, V. Gromov, V. Shagin, Sh. Shvarts), students of M. Matyushin, V. Favorsky, V. Sterligov, G. Dlugach, masters of the circle P. Kondratiev, the “Circle of Artists” society and others. The unique atmosphere of the museum is created by personal items that once belonged to the masters.
The interiors of the museum are decorated with chairs from the spouses Vladimir Sterligov and Tatyana Glebova, a sideboard painted by them, a palette used by Ustyugov, and an easel from Kostrov’s workshop. This small but cozy “laboratory” of contemporary art today lives a rich and fulfilling internal life.
Temporary thematic exhibitions are regularly held here, the museum participates in visiting and exchange projects, and maintains creative contacts with foreign organizations. It has its own training workshop for adults and children, and a hall where the best works of students are exhibited. The museum also has a “special art department”, where children and people with disabilities have the opportunity to be creative. This project is innovative for St. Petersburg and so far has analogues only abroad. The main concept of the creators united under the arches of the Tsarskoye Selo Collection is plastic realism. Artists developing this direction explore the form created by nature itself, comprehend the essence of the most ordinary things, the harmony of everyday life.
After 1917, they decided to “densify” the house - its premises were distributed as communal rooms. The previous residents had to make room. In this status, gradually deteriorating, the house existed until 1987, until artists became seriously interested in its fate. By this time, the building was finally converted into non-residential use and resettled. As for his condition, it was impossible to call it anything other than deplorable. The authorities seriously raised the issue of demolition. However, an initiative group of artists managed to defend the future museum. State Museum “Tsarskoye Selo Collection”
In February 1990, the public organization “Gallery” opened here, a year later the first permanent exhibition appeared, and in 1992 the museum acquired its current name: “Tsarskoye Selo Collection”.
The status of a state museum was awarded in 1996. And in 2009, the building was completely restored in accordance with its original appearance. The founder of the museum and its permanent director to this day is Alexander Nekrasov. Today the museum is a collection of exhibits of painting, graphics, sculpture, and, more recently, also photographs of authors of the twentieth century, more precisely, the period from 1917 to the beginning of this century.
In total, its holdings contain more than 4,000 works of art, eloquently demonstrating the life and spiritual trends of the official (Union of Artists), but even more so of the unofficial creative environment - the so-called underground. Currently, the museum has five exhibition halls, in which permanent exhibitions are divided by period: works of the 30s-70s, works of the 70s-2000s.
They present works by artists of the Arefiev Circle (A. Arefiev, R. Vasmi, V. Gromov, V. Shagin, Sh. Shvarts), students of M. Matyushin, V. Favorsky, V. Sterligov, G. Dlugach, masters of the circle P. Kondratiev, the “Circle of Artists” society and others. The unique atmosphere of the museum is created by personal items that once belonged to the masters.
The interiors of the museum are decorated with chairs from the spouses Vladimir Sterligov and Tatyana Glebova, a sideboard painted by them, a palette used by Ustyugov, and an easel from Kostrov’s workshop. This small but cozy “laboratory” of contemporary art today lives a rich and fulfilling internal life.
Temporary thematic exhibitions are regularly held here, the museum participates in visiting and exchange projects, and maintains creative contacts with foreign organizations. It has its own training workshop for adults and children, and a hall where the best works of students are exhibited. The museum also has a “special art department”, where children and people with disabilities have the opportunity to be creative. This project is innovative for St. Petersburg and so far has analogues only abroad. The main concept of the creators united under the arches of the Tsarskoye Selo Collection is plastic realism. Artists developing this direction explore the form created by nature itself, comprehend the essence of the most ordinary things, the harmony of everyday life.
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Telephone:
(812) 466-04-60
Working hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 11.00 to 17.00
Address:
Pushkin, st. Magazeynaya, 40, St. Petersburg
