Location: Kurortny prospekt 51
Tel. 8622 622 947
Open: 10:30am- 5:30pm Tue- Sun
Entrance Fee: Adult R100, Children R50
The Sochi Art Museum named after Dmitry Zhilinsky is a cultural
and educational institution in the Central District of the city of
Sochi.
The building was built according to the project of the
academician of architecture I. V. Zholtovsky in 1936, it was
intended for the Commissioner of the All-Russian Central Executive
Committee of the USSR for the construction of the resort city of
Sochi-Matsesta. For several decades, the City Committee of the CPSU
was located here. The building of the art museum is an architectural
monument of federal significance. The end face of the building from
the side of Kurortny Prospekt is decorated with a sculpture of a
bricklayer by N. K. Wentzel.
Since 1972, the Sochi Exhibition
Hall has been located here, since 1976 - the Sochi Art Museum.
The museum has collected about 6,000 exhibits of ancient,
Russian, Soviet, foreign art in the following sections: painting,
graphics, sculpture, arts and crafts, art crafts.
The
permanent exhibition covers the period from the 1st century BC. to
contemporary art and represents the Mzymta treasure, as well as such
masters as V. E. Makovsky, M. K. Klodt, L. F. Lagorio, P. P.
Konchalovsky, S. V. Gerasimov, P. V. Williams, I. I. Mashkov, S.
Nekritin, N. I. Andronov, D. D. Zhilinsky.
The exhibition
halls host monthly exhibitions dedicated to the art of individual
artists, creative associations, representing collections of public
and private collections. The museum has an art salon where you can
buy works of art, art antiques, works of jewelry masters, products
of folk art crafts and the Kaliningrad Amber Combine.
Municipal budgetary institution of culture of the city of Sochi
"Sochi Art Museum. Dmitry Dmitrievich Zhilinsky" is the legal successor
of the State Exhibition Hall of Fine Arts in the city of Sochi,
established by order of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR dated June
24, 1971 No. Committee of the Sochi City Council of Deputies dated
February 03, 1988 No. 65 "On the transformation of the Sochi Exhibition
Hall into the Sochi Art Museum."
The building in which the MBUK
of Sochi "SHM them. D.D. Zhilinsky, built in 1936 according to the
project of academician of architecture Ivan Vladislavovich Zholtovsky,
is rightfully considered not only the city-forming beginning of the city
center, but also one of its main architectural monuments of the 30s of
the last century. This is no coincidence, for many years the building
housed the administrative center of the Commissioner of the All-Russian
Central Executive Committee of the USSR for the construction of the
resort city of Sochi - Matsesta.
History of MBUK Sochi D.D.
Zhilinsky" covers almost half a century. During this time, starting from
1972, when the building was being reconstructed - an architectural
monument of federal significance and the museum was called the
Exhibition Hall of Fine Arts, it never stopped scientific and
educational, fund and exposition-exhibition work. A large number of
paintings by Soviet artists of the 1930s - 1980s were donated by Sochi
health resorts.
Over the period of its existence, the museum has
been visited by more than three and a half million people. Up to 8
expositions of permanent and temporary storage are exhibited in the
Sochi Art Museum at the same time, which arouse the constant interest of
residents and guests of the resort.
Over the years, the museum
has hosted exhibitions from the collections of museums in Italy (Genoese
mezzaro), Germany and Austria (Contemporary Art of the 20th century),
Great Britain (Magic Pencil and video art "Burnt Verses"), major museums
in the USSR and the Russian Federation, including exhibitions from State
Hermitage Museum, State Art Gallery of Armenia, photo exhibitions
dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia, personal
exhibitions of N. and S. Roerichs, D.D. Zhilinsky, Z.K. Tsereteli and
others.
In 2020, the museum was named after our famous countryman
- People's Artist of the RSFSR, Academician of the Academy of Arts of
the USSR, professor, laureate of State Prizes, Soviet and Russian
painter and graphic artist Dmitry Dmitrievich Zhilinsky.
Currently, the museum has a magnificent collection of 6,485 items. The
collection of the museum represents the fine arts of different
historical periods, in a chronological sense, the collection of the
museum opens with antique silver of the 1st - 2nd centuries. AD, then an
ancient Russian icon of the 18th-20th centuries, a collection of
paintings, drawings and works of decorative and applied art of the
19th-20th centuries.
On the eve of the XX Winter Olympic and XI
Winter Paralympic Games in 2014, the museum was equipped with modern
equipment, including the installation of the Holographic Pyramid
software and hardware complex with multimedia content, 3D monitors, 3D
cabin, audio guides, virtual stand attendant, information and sensory
kiosks. Outdoor LED screens are located on the square in front of the
museum building. Especially for the museum, the attractions "Journey to
the Picture" and "Draw a Picture", "Sphere" and "Magic Hall" were
developed.
The museum has all the conditions for accessibility
for people with disabilities, including two elevators and a lift, audio
guides for the museum's permanent collection in three languages -
Russian, English and French.
Over the entire period of its
existence, the museum has been visited by more than 3.5 million people,
and today it can be said with confidence that the Sochi Art Museum is a
true scientific and educational center and a leading center of culture
on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus.