The Sochi Art Museum is located on the Arts Square, which stretches along Resort Avenue for 270 meters. The monumental building of the museum was built in 1936 in the style of the Stalinist Empire, although it looks like an ancient Greek temple.
In the Sochi Art Museum, you can see artifacts from ancient treasures, as well as art objects and paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries. During the summer season, exhibitions of contemporary artists are often held here. The Art Museum is named after Dmitry Zhilinsky, a famous 20th century artist from Sochi.
After the completion of construction, the building did not immediately become a museum. Until 1972, it housed the City Committee of the Communist Party. As part of the Stalinist reconstruction program of Sochi, other monumental buildings were built in the center during the same years: the Winter Theater, the Primorskaya Hotel and others.
The largest find of ancient times, which are kept in the Art Museum, is the “Mzymta treasure”. It was found in 1997 in the vicinity of the resorts of Krasnaya Polyana, on the Mzymta River. The objects of the treasure date back to the 1st century BC and belong to the Sarmatian era.
The halls of the Sochi Art Museum are very spacious. In the exposition of Russian Art of the 19th-21st centuries, you can see paintings by famous artists (Aivazovsky, Polenov, Shishkin and others), as well as works by novice authors. There is also an interesting collection of Russian graphics of the 19th and 21st centuries.
