RGGU Museum description and photos - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

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The Museum of the RSUH "Other Art" was opened in 2000 at the Museum Center of the Russian State University for the Humanities. The Other Art Museum is dedicated to unofficial Russian art from 1950 to 1970. The collection of Leonid Prokhorovich Talochkin became the basis of the museum's collection.

Before the 1917 revolution, the Shanyavsky People's University was located in the old part of the building of the Russian State Humanitarian University. After the Great Patriotic War, a part of the building was built in the “Stalinist Empire” style. This is where the Other Art Museum is located. The collection of the museum includes more than 1500 works of art. The basis of the exhibition is made up of works by artists of the sixties. Present in the exhibition and later works of the late 1990s.

The circle of artists, whose works are presented in the museum is impressive. These are the works of the masters of the Soviet underground: A. Abramov, S. Bordachev, V. Weisberg, B. Beach, R. Gerlovin, Y. Zharkikh, A. Zverev, V. Kalinin, Y. Kosagovsky, D. Krasnopevtsev, V. Kropivnitskaya and L. Kropivnitsky, E. Neizvestny, V. Nemukhin, V. Pyanov, A. Rabin, M. Roginsky, E. Rukhin, A. Kharitonov, O. Tselkov, V. Yankilevsky, S. Shutov and others.

The Museum Center of the Russian State University for the Humanities also houses the Academic Art Museum. I.V. Tsvetaeva, the Hall of Art of Ancient Mexico and the Exhibition Hall, which hosts a variety of exhibitions, including international ones. The Museum Center of the Russian State University for the Humanities today is a cultural and educational center and an innovative research area, where the concept of "Education through the arts" is being implemented.

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