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The Far Eastern Art Museum in Khabarovsk which recently celebrated its 90th anniversary may receive a new building thanks to the Far Eastern Concession mechanism. The project for the construction of the museum complex was discussed by the Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East Alexei Chekunkov and the Acting Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Mikhail Degtyarev.Even being a sophisticated museum visitor I must say that there is a world-class collection here. It would be very interesting for any tourist to see the masterpieces that have already been exhibited in the Far Eastern Art Museum. But when you go down to the storerooms you see that there are ten times more paintings historical artifacts weapons traditional clothes. They are not in the optimal storage conditions required for works of art. And they are simply not available to visitors. This of course needs to be fixed. We within the framework of the Far Eastern Concession mechanism together with the region are working on the issue of making one of the first concession projects a project for the construction of a new building for an art museum. So that it becomes a worthy repository of all the works of art that the Khabarovsk Territory is rich inThe project is currently at the concept approval stage. The financial model and structure of the project will be developed within six months. Part of the funds will be provided through the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East in the form of a capital grant for design and survey work and construction.The Art Museum in Khabarovsk is the easternmost of the Russian treasuries of works of fine art that are the glory of the national cultural heritage. Historically his collection is associated with the collections of the largest museums in the country - the Hermitage the Russian Museum the Tretyakov Gallery the Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin.Exhibitions are held throughout the year. One of the most popular is an exhibition of works of Soviet art. We hold it quite often at the request of our visitors. Now in the halls of the museum there are slightly more than 300 paintings. And another 3 thousand paintings are in storage. It is difficult to change the permanent exhibition masterpieces of European and Russian artists are presented there. These are Titian Veronese Aivazovsky Repin. Tourists are interested in these works. Tourists from China often want to see Repins paintings. These masterpieces are housed in the halls all the time. There are beautiful paintings in the storerooms. All of them could be exhibited said Anastasia Mikhailovna Bashchenko curator of the funds of the Far Eastern Art Museum.The idea of creating the first public gallery in the east of Russia belongs to the Amur Governor-General N.I. Grodekov. Thanks to his efforts at the beginning of the 20th century the first steps were taken in Khabarovsk to form a collection of fine art - the prototype of the future art gallery. The first paintings and sculptures arrived from the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1905.The main fund of the museum was formed in the 1930s thanks to the receipts of exhibits from the Museum of New Western Art the Tretyakov Gallery the Historical Museum the Russian Museum and the Hermitage. Through the efforts of the first director of the museum Peter Mikhailovich Pokrovsky the museum became the center of the scientific educational and cultural life of the city.Now the Far Eastern Art Museum has over 15 thousand works of fine art including canvases by the masters of Russian classics - S. Shchedrin G. Tropinin I. Aivazovsky V. Vereshchagin I. Shishkin I. Repin V. Surikov I. Levitan. There are drawings by A. Benois K. Somov A. Vasnetsov M. Vrubel V. Serov E. Lissitzky V. Stepanova P. Kuznetsov. The museum fund is replenished with works of contemporary artists
