The Tula Museum of Fine Arts was opened in 1919. It is the largest regional museum in Russia and the Tula region. The museum’s collection totals more than 25,000 works. It features painting, graphics, sculpture, folk, decorative and applied art.
The unique collection of Western European art is one of the largest among the country’s regional museums: it houses masterpieces by famous masters such as Orazio Sammacchini, Leandro Bassano, Luca Giordano, Domenico Fetti, Daniel Seghers, Pieter Nason. The works by Russian and contemporary artists of the 16th—20th centuries, such as Vasily Tropinin, Ilya Repin, Vasily Surikov, Isaac Levitan, Boris Kustodiev, Ivan Aivazovsky, Konstantin Korovin, and many others are the pride of the museum’s collection.
The unique collection of Western European art is one of the largest among the country’s regional museums: it houses masterpieces by famous masters such as Orazio Sammacchini, Leandro Bassano, Luca Giordano, Domenico Fetti, Daniel Seghers, Pieter Nason. The works by Russian and contemporary artists of the 16th—20th centuries, such as Vasily Tropinin, Ilya Repin, Vasily Surikov, Isaac Levitan, Boris Kustodiev, Ivan Aivazovsky, Konstantin Korovin, and many others are the pride of the museum’s collection.
