By the end of the 80s, it became clear that the needs of Leningrad is the Museum of Modern Art. I waited for him, like everyone else, i visited the exhibition with the participation of galleries that appear one after another in the city. In the artists of arts met with V. Pushkarev, who wanted to create a museum in Moscow, and M. Sheynbaum who collected works for arena. And I got to know with the collections of S. Laskin, N. Blagodatov, Loginov, Chudnovsky, Sidorov, Frontinsky.
Not wanting to compete with anyone in the value and quality of the collected works, wanted to find "your voice" in the selection of the works themselves and the world as a collection of fold that best suits my ideals in art. I studied and study the case constantly with friends and above all the artists of the older generation, unfortunately, has basically gone. Looking back, I see that the most expensive at the gathering were no pictures, but the people who gave them. Every success of the museum, and therefore my personal relations with our overall progress in the preservation of culture in Russia, and hence its future. For me, collecting works representing tradition, was not the main problem. Although it was necessary to provide guidelines that would better understand what to build next. Since the collection was started 20 – 40's, 50 – 80, and then the 90-ies of XX century. Now it becomes clearer where to go in collecting tomorrow.
Director of the State Museum "Tsarskoye Selo collection» Nekrasov.
The museum has collected more than six thousand paintings and drawings. Face "Tsarskoye Selo collection" primarily consists of the works of the Leningrad avant – garde 20 – 90 years of the twentieth century: V. Sterligova, M. Matyushina, V. Ermolaevoy, L. Yudina, K. Rozhdestvenskiy, P. Basmanov and others who can cover a broad concept "pictorial – plastic realism." There are works by artists of the Moscow avant – garde: V. Chekrygina, B. Endera, D. Mitrohina, T. Mavrinoy, D. Darana. A separate exposition of the museum is "Arefyevskiy krug" – one of the earliest artistic community in the history of the Leningrad underground: works A. Arefeva, R. Vasmi, Sh. Shvartsa, V. Shagina, V. Gromova. The museum has an active exhibition activity in Russia and abroad. Over 20 years of organized more than 300 exhibitions in museums and cultural centers in St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Cheboksary, Kostroma, in the cities of the Twin City Pushkin – Berlin (Neukölln), Kalamazoo (USA), Liepaja, Riga.
Hours of Operation:
Museum: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11.00 to 17.00.
Monday, Tuesday – are weekends.
Direction: daily from 9.00 to 18.00.
Saturday, Sunday – are weekends
Admission:
entrance fee – 70 rubles.
for students, pensioners and veterans of labor – 30 rubles.
right of free access by children under 6 years old, artists, students of art schools, museum workers, people with disabilities, blockades.
Friends, we draw your attention to the fact that the time and days of the State Museum Tsarskoye Selo collection may vary, so we recommend to call before visiting +7 (812) 466 – 04 – 60.
