Primorsky State Art Gallery
And on May 9, 1930, the board of the People's Commissariat of Industry adopted a resolution "On the speedy distribution of collections from the reserve funds of central museums to regional museums." It was proposed primarily to allocate collections for the Vladivostok State Regional Museum.
Active development of the Primorsky Museum of Local History (this is how the Vladivostok Regional Museum became known since 1938) and the huge value of the transferred artworks quickly made the issue of allocating the art department into an independent structural unit relevant.
>> In the future, the situation only worsens. Fans of fine arts are not satisfied with the quantity and quality of museum art exhibitions. Students of the Vladivostok Art School, and later the first in the USSR Far Eastern Institute of Arts, need constant and free communication with the creations of classics of painting, the opportunity to copy them
> In 1984, the gallery, in addition to the existing premises, received in operational management part of a two-storey building-monument of history and architecture in the center of Vladivostok, built in 1904 for a branch of the Russian-Asian Bank (architect Platon Evgenievich Bazilevsky (1856-1916).
Today, the collections of the gallery are more than eight thousand items of storage: paintings, graphics, sculptures, decorative art.
Primorsky State Gallery today is the main building located in the historical part of Vladivostok. There are halls of permanent exposition, an exhibition hall from museum collections, funds, restoration workshops of painting and graphics are placed here. The exhibition halls of the gallery on Partizansky Prospekt, 12, on the basis of which the Children's Museum Center, art studios operate, there is a scientific library with more than 11,000 printed publications, including the fund of a rare book. Since 2014, the Primorsky State Art Gallery has been a partner of the project to create the Hermitage-Vladivostok Satellite Center.
In recent years, a number of important cultural and exhibition projects for the region have been implemented at the Gallery sites, implemented jointly with domestic treasuries and famous foreign museums: "The Image of the Mother of God." Icons of the XVI-XX centuries" from the collection of the Historical Museum (2017); "Ivan Aivazovsky is a great marine painter. From the collections of museums of Russia" (2017); "The Great Karl" The works of K.P. Bryullov from the collection of the Russian Museum (2018); "The sovereigns and sovereigns are crowned patrons of the arts. To the 300th anniversary of the formation of the Russian Empire" (2019); "Botticelli. Master of Universal Art" from the collection of Uffizi Galleries, Italy (2019); "Miniatures of Babur-name in the collection of the State Museum of Oriental Art" (2020); "Valentine Serov" (2021); "Under the sky of Venice. Veduts of the XVIII century from the collection of Intesa Sanpaolo" Italy (2021); "Repin. "Far Close" (2022); "Energy of Color". Archetypes of avant-garde" (2023); "Artist and fairy tale" (2023).
Continuing active exhibition activities, in 2023 the Primorsky Gallery prepared an international exhibition project "Ivan Shishkin", which brought together nine participating museums and the Scientific Archive of the Russian Academy of Arts. In the halls of the Gallery there are more than one hundred and fifty works of painting, original and printed graphics of the master, and in the windows - memorial items and archival documents. From the collection of the Primorsky Art Gallery, the exposition was supplemented by the sketch of the 1870s “In the Spruce Forest”. Similar in composition drawing "In the forest". Fallen tree of 1878 is kept in the Russian Museum.
