The House of Crafts

The department of Folk Art and Crafts of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum is based in the House of Crafts.

The House of Crafts hosts exhibitions, trade fairs, festivals, and cultural events.For more than 20 years, the School of Crafts has been operating, where children and adults learn the basics of folk crafts. Qualified teachers teach various types of fine and decorative arts: patchwork, Russian embroidery, lace-making, weaving, sewing, batik, knitting and other crafts. Classes are held during the day and in the evening.

And for the masters who have been trained in the courses at the School of Crafts, who have experience in creative activity, 10 club associations in various areas carry out their work.

During the year, there are guided tours of exhibitions, events, master classes in various areas of folk art, modular classes, where the visitor makes a product for himself. For those who want to buy souvenirs, there is a souvenir shop.

Every year in December, the exhibition of folk art of the Murmansk region "Nikolskaya Fair"is held.

The museum has a souvenir shop where you can buy stone ornaments, paintings, sets of postcards and other beautiful things. Before visiting the museum, you can get acquainted with the virtual tour on its website. On December 19, 1989, the first specialized exhibition hall was opened in Murmansk. This event was timed to coincide with the VII zonal exhibition "Soviet North". On January 17, 1990, the exhibition hall was transformed into the Murmansk Regional Art Museum and at the same time the works of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied art from the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore were transferred to its funds. The permanent exhibition of the art museum "Russian Fine Art of the XVIII-XX centuries" consists of several sections: the first of them is devoted to Russian art of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The section dedicated to Russian art of the twentieth century presents paintings, graphic works, sculpture and works of decorative and applied art.

The collection of graphics in the museum's collection is the most numerous. The permanent exhibition of the museum presents works of Moscow, Leningrad and Murmansk graphic artists. The museum owns a small collection of sculptures.

The Kola North has always had a special attraction for creative people. The painting section dedicated to Murmansk artists begins with the works of the oldest artists of the region. This section provides an overview of the current state of development of fine arts on the Kola Peninsula.

The exposition of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum is completed with works of decorative and applied art. Visitors can get acquainted with the main northern crafts: wood painting, making clay toys, bone carving, lace weaving, birch bark weaving, wood carving. Of particular interest are the Pomeranian goats-figures made of dough, since ancient times baked on the Tersk coast of the White Sea. The permanent exhibition of the art Museum gives an idea of the development of Russian fine art from the XVIII century to the present day.