Polotsk Art Gallery

Art Gallery is located in one of the buildings of the former Jesuit College, a monument of architecture of XVIII century. The total area of the museum is 900 m2. The exhibition Gallery presents a collection of religious crafts XII-XIX centuries, Iconography XVIII-XX centuries, Secular portrait painting of the XVIII century, Arts Belarus twentieth century. Art Gallery has two exhibition halls to display changing exhibitions and art salons. Polotsk Municipal Art Gallery was opened February 20, 1981 as a branch of Local History Museum.. In 1985 she joined the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve (NPIKMZ). From 1981 to 1991 Art Gallery housed in the building of the Epiphany Cathedral, a monument of architecture of XVIII century which was formerly the Cathedral of the Epiphany Monastery founded in the XVI century. In 1992 in connection with the transfer of a building of the Epiphany Cathedral of the Diocese of Polotsk, the activity continued Art Gallery in the Museum of the Belarusian printing. Since 2002 the Art Gallery, a branch of the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve (NPIKMZ), is located in one of the buildings of the former Jesuit College, opened in 1581 on the instructions of King of Poland Stefan Batory. After the 1784 construction of the new buildings of the collegium headed Gabriel Gruber - known in Europe architect, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian. According to the project in 1788 was a three-story building built specifically for the museum. Among the collection of historical and natural science plans, the museum was a picture gallery, the collection that have been painting of Salvator Rosa Verona, Warsaw painter Shimon Chekhovich, Ignatius of Dorati, Augustine Nedvetskogo, Malachowski and others, copies Towel Raphael, Titian and Rubens. The walls were decorated with frescoes Gallery made by the city of Gruber.