Art Museum

Unique

So many icons from the 14-17th centuries. The docent is excellent and very passionate about the artifacts in this museum. There are wooden sculptures, folk art, embroidery, ceramics and very beautiful...

Icons, Folk Art & Bone Carvings

We stopped at Archangel during a cruise. One of the places visited was the Fine Arts Museum. This museum is one of the largest in Russia and holds a collection of more then 30,000 pieces, much of ...

a way to understand Arkhangelsk and the region, past and present

I really loved this museum and wish I could have spent more time there. I tried to read about it in advance but found the website lacking as well as travel book descriptions. What I found, howeve...

One of the objects in Archangelsk, clearly worthy of attention.

Original Text

The collection of the northern icon is certainly worthy of attention. And it is very sad, of course, that the museum is in a degraded state, as is almost everything in the region.

Unexpectedly interesting

Original Text

Good collection of Russian avant-garde, carvings on the bone, wonderful exhibition of the northern icon. Especially good cut icons. During my visit there was a wonderful exhibition of handwritten books with ...