October 22, 2021

Museums/Музеи

Музей истории и археологии Урала

Ленина, 69/10

Museum of History and Archaeology of the Urals

Lenina, 69/10

http://uole-museum.ru/museums/muzej-istorii-i-arheologii-urala/

Five floors preserve the history of the Urals from ancient times to the Soviet era.

A hall with rare wooden cabinet windows and portraits of Ural amateur local historians tells the "History of UOLE" (the Ural Society of Amateurs of Natural History, which founded the first museum in Yekaterinburg). "The ancient history of the peoples of the Urals" is represented by bird-like idols of the Itkul culture, fragments of ceramics, and a unique rod tip in the form of a squirrel's head. The neighbouring halls of "Shigir Pantry" will present the world's oldest wooden sculpture - the Big Shigir Idol, which is at least 11 thousand years old.

At the exhibition "Mountain World. On the ways of Siberia" you will learn more about the personality of Ermak and settlement of the Ural by Russians, development of Ural plants in XVIII-XIX centuries, merchants and Old Believers from Ekaterinburg, contribution of Ural residents to the Patriotic War of 1812. Among the valuable artifacts in these halls are copper tableware, coins, and cannons from Ural factories.

In the ethnographic exposition "On One Land, Under One Sky" you will "visit" a Mansi chum, a Bashkir yurt and a Russian hut, see traditional utensils and costumes of Ural peoples.

The Romanovs' Memorial Hall is devoted to Russia during the reign of Nicholas II and the death of the emperor's family. Here you can see authentic fragments of the interior and decor of the "special house" (the decor of rooms, bronze fittings, a fireplace from the dining room, a window grate from the basement) and even examine it in detail thanks to a scientific 3D reconstruction of the house of engineer Ipatyev and a chronicle of the tragic events of July 1918.

The exhibition “Ural to the Front” was renewed in 2015, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, and tells about the contribution of Ural residents to the victory - at the fronts, in factory workshops and on collective farm fields.

Музей природы Урала

ул. Горького, 4

Ural Nature Museum

ul. Gorkogo, 4

http://uole-museum.ru/museums/muzej-prirody-urala/

You will travel across the Sverdlovsk region from Denezhkin Kamen in the North to the Alexandrovsky Sopoks in the South, discovering the paleontological and geological collections, the curiosities of the Rarities Cabinet and temporary exhibitions.

You can see a model of the solar system and the jaw of a Helicoprion shark, a mammoth skeleton found for the first time in Russia in 1897 and the skeleton of a broad-horned deer, a block of malachite weighing half a ton, and Ural gems, taxidermy sculptures of red-listed animals, a collection of more than 670 kinds of insects, unique bas-relief paintings by Franz Schillinger, a stuffed Nile crocodile Kolya, the long-lived resident of Yekaterinburg Zoo, and other wonders...

Художественный музей Эрнста Неизвестного

ул. Добролюбова, 14

Ernst Neizvestny Art Museum

Dobrolyubova, 14

http://uole-museum.ru/museums/hudozhestvennyj-muzej-ernsta-neizvestnogo/

The only museum in Russia and the second in the world dedicated to the sculptor and philosopher Ernst Neizvestny. Was opened in 2013, during the Master's lifetime. The museum preserves and presents to the public Ernst Neizvestny's original works: small sculptures, graphic works, book illustrations and rare biographical photographs.

The five exhibition halls provide the visitor with an insight into the philosophy and major periods of Ernst Neizvestny's work. You will see the sculptor's acknowledged masterpieces: Heart of Christ, Centauress with Child, Atomic Explosion, Crucified Giant, Orpheus and many others, as well as a model of the monument Mask of Sorrow: Europe and Asia, dedicated to victims of Stalinist repression and opened in Ekaterinburg in 2017. The monumental statues by Ernst Neizvestny ("Lotus Flower" on the Aswan Dam, "Tree of Life" in Moscow's Bagration commercial and pedestrian bridge, etc.) are introduced by multimedia images on video walls.

Музейно-выставочный центр «Дом Поклевских-Козелл»

ул. Малышева, 46

Museum and Exhibition Centre "Poklevskiy-Kozell House"

Malysheva, 46

http://uole-museum.ru/museums/muzejno-vystavochnyj-tsentr-dom-poklevskih-kozell/

Екатеринбургский музей изобразительных искусств

ул. Воеводина, 5

Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

Voyevodina St, 5

The Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is the largest art museum in the Urals. Founded in 1936.

The museum is known for its collections, many of which are of global significance. One of them is a unique collection of the Ural artistic castings of the 19th-20th centuries, the central exhibit of which is the famous Kaslinsky cast-iron pavilion registered in the International catalogue of UNESCO as a rarity - the only architectural structure made of cast-iron in the world that is in the museum collection.

The section of Western European art of the XIV-XIX centuries is of great interest. Works by Italian, Flemish, Dutch, French and German masters are displayed there. The works of some painters, such as Rutilio Manetti and Francesco Rustici, are very rare and are represented only in Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts.

The exposition of Russian art of the XVII - early XX centuries is expressive and diverse in its composition. The works on display consistently reflect the main stages in the development of Russian art of that period. It features icon painting by masters of the Moscow school and the Russian province of the XVII-XX centuries, with a special focus on the local Uralic art of the so-called Nevyanskaya icon. The Russian painting of the 18th - early 20th centuries is represented by the paintings of such famous artists as V. L. Borovikovsky, V. A. Tropinin, A. G. Venetsianov, I. N. Kramramskin, A. I. Strzhalkovsky, V. I. Strzhalkovsky, V. V. Sokolov, A. I. Strzhalkovsky, V. I. Strzhalkovsky, A. N. Kramskin, etc. Kramskoy, Korzukhin, Yaroshenko, Savrasov, Shishkin, Repin, Kustodiev, Korovin, Benois, Sudeykin, Yuo Yong and others.

The vast collection of decorative-applied art of the Ural includes stone-cutting and lapidary art, displaying products of the traditional Ural crafts of the 18th - early 21st centuries, Zlatoust decorated weapons and engravings on steel, Nizhny Tagil painted tray and art of jewelry of the Ural and Moscow schools of 1970-2000-s' recognized masters.

Культурно-просветительский Центр Эрмитаж-Урал

ул. Вайнера, 11

Hermitage-Ural Cultural and Educational Centre

Vainera, 11

The main building of the Hermitage Ural Centre is a reconstructed and adapted cultural heritage site of the Merchant Bardygin House, built in 1912 to a design by the architect Konstantin Trofimovich Babikin, one of the most important figures in the architecture of Ekaterinburg in 20th century.

The ground floor is home to rooms for temporary exhibitions from the State Hermitage (St. Petersburg). The first project implemented in the restored halls of the historic building is the exhibition of 19th century French painting and sculpture from the Hermitage collection, From Romanticism to Impressionism. The exhibition introduces visitors to one of the most interesting and representative collections of French art in the world. It includes works by important masters such as Elisabeth Vigée-Le Bren, Horace Vernet, Jean Geschter, Antoine-Louis Bary, Paul Delaroche, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Prosper d'Epine, Auguste Rodin.

The permanent exhibition, which includes two sections entitled "The Art of the Ancient World" and "Western European Art of the 15th century to the Beginning of the 20th century", is located on the second floor of the Hermitage Ural Centre. Many of the displayed items were donated by the State Hermitage Museum as a token of appreciation for the storage of masterpieces during the years of the Great Patriotic War. Today they form an important part of the new permanent exhibition, recalling the events of the past and presenting a kind of "Hermitage in miniature".

On the attic floor of the historic building there is a memorial exhibition devoted to the feat of the museum workers who rescued the priceless exhibits in the deep rear. Immersed in the atmosphere of 1941, the visitor can become acquainted with the memories of the evacuated employees, rare photographs and graphic sketches of life in the Sverdlovsk branch of the Hermitage.

Музей наивного искусства

ул. Розы Люксембург, 18

Museum of Naive Art

Rosa Luxemburg, 18

The museum's collection is based on the collection of the well-known Ekaterinburg collector Evgeny Roizman, that he donated to the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts in 2015. The works were acquired or donated by him from artists and heirs over a period of twenty-five years of collecting. The foundation of the Museum of Naive Art is based on the idea of the Gift - the gift of creativity, acquired by non-professional artists through their labours and often in their late years; the gift of pure joy and undeniable truth, conveyed by the authors to the audience; the gift as a form of creation and a way for a museum to exist for all time. The permanent exhibition is the historical part - the story about the history of the collection and the protagonists of Urals naive.

Ельцин Центр
ул. Бориса Ельцина, д. 3

Boris Yeltsin presidential Сenter Ulitsa Borisa Yel'tsina, 3

At the Yeltsin Centre you can visit the museum, art gallery, cinema with original movies (with Russian subtitles). There are 3 restaurants, 2 cafes, book shop, Souvenir Shop El with unusual stuff from the Urals.

The Yeltsin Centre Art Gallery in Yekaterinburg is a venue for exhibitions presenting art from various directions from the 20th and 21st centuries. Working hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-21:00

Exhibitions:

1)     Project "MJK-1980". From 3 September to 24 October. Art Gallery. Special project of the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art.

2)     "Saints of the Undivided Church". Till 5th of September 2021. Mon-Sat 10:00-21:00. Free entrance, Round Hall, 3rd floor.

A unique exhibition of icons, mosaics and miniatures by contemporary iconographers is dedicated to the Christian saints of the West from the 2nd to 11th centuries. This is the period of the united, undivided Church up until the Great Scheism of 1054, which means that saints are venerated by both Orthodox and Catholic Churches.

3)     Free Russia Square Photo Exhibition. 19 August - 10 October 2021. Free entrance, Foyer of Yeltsin Center cinema-conference hall.

August 1991 coup d'etat is the most important event in the modern history of Russia. On August 19, the citizens of the country protested against the coup attempted by the top Soviet leaders, who had united to form the State Committee of the State of Emergency. People took to the streets of the cities, building barricades, going on strike to defend the political and economic reforms which had already begun in the USSR.

The exhibition is based on the story of Konstantin Makhmutov. He arrived in Moscow on August 20, unaware of what was happening. He was a photographer for a newspaper in the town of Rudnyy in Kustanay oblast in the Kazakh SSR. At first it seemed to him that Moscow lived its usual life. But after stepping out of the metro in the centre of the capital, he saw tanks and barricades, he left everything and began to take photographs. Looking through his photos today we can see not only the faces of White House defenders or soldiers, but also the material signs of those days - improvised objects used to build barricades, homemade posters, radio receivers... Details captured by a camera make it possible not just to learn about the events of those times but to feel them.

Museum. . Working hours:Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-21:00

The idea to organise the exhibition according to the "7 days" principle, where every day is related to a crucial moment in the country's history, belongs to the famous Russian director Pavel Lungin.

The exhibition consists of nine rooms. It opens with the Labyrinth - a room dedicated to the history of the Yeltsin family against the turbulent background of the 20th century. From there you get to a complex of seven halls under the general name "Seven days that changed Russia" - they tell about the first president of Russia and his era.

Day one (Hall 2). "We're waiting for change!". How Perestroika started in the USSR.

Day two (Hall 3). "The August Putsch". The exposition in this hall is based on historical artefacts and conveys the atmosphere of those dramatic days. You will definitely feel it once you are on the barricades erected by the White House defenders on the 19th of August.

Day three (Hall 4). Unpopular measures. On the economic situation in Russia in the 1990s. You'll walk along empty counters and play an interactive game with stocks.

Day four (Hall 5). The birth of the Constitution.

The pictures and documents in this room will help you to understand how the President of Russia felt in the critical situation of October 1993 and at what price he paid for the harsh decisions of the state. The story that emerges from the documents and artefacts in this room is not embellished - you will see these events as the Muscovites saw them in the autumn of 1993.

Day five (Hall 6). "Vote or lose".

Campaign materials and documents which were for internal use only for the 1996 election campaign. The videos, T-shirts, badges were the outside of the campaign. But its essence is the grueling, brinkmanship of the candidate who won the race.

Day six (Hall 7). A presidential marathon.

Seventh day (Hall 8). Farewell to the Kremlin. On 31 December 1999, Russia's first president announced his resignation. He did it at 12 o'clock Moscow time - all channels broadcasted the president's address, which had been recorded the day before. You can see with your own eyes what was behind the scene.

You have a chance not only to learn all the details of the transfer of presidential power, but also to visit the working office of Boris Yeltsin. It is not a scenery. The furniture, the items, the papers on the desk - everything here is genuine. In fact the cabinet just moved to the museum from the Kremlin.

Hall of Liberty (Hall 9). This hall is central in the Museum of the first president of Russia. Here you can hear what the word 'freedom' means to all kinds of people - from former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to actress Liya Akhedzhakova, from the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton to TV presenter Ivan Urgant, from writer Mikhail Zhvanetsky to musician Andrei Makarevich. Don't agree with them? You have the opportunity to state your own position. A special studio in this hall gives you the chance to record a video which will later be shown on screens in the "Hall of Freedom". In this way, each of you can become a participant in an open discussion about civil rights and freedoms