In 2022, the State Historical Museum will celebrate its 150th anniversary. In honor of the anniversary, major exhibition projects will continue to open at the GIM. In the new year, the Tula branch will show a series of exhibitions from the museum's collection, some of the exhibits will be on display for the first time.
"Next year we will have a busy program. The Historical Museum will continue to receive not only "gift exhibitions" from leading Russian cultural institutions, but also the second exhibition within the framework of the project "Treasures of Italian Museums in the Historical Museum". The Historical Museum will also delight residents of Tula, where several exhibitions from the museum's collection will be held," says director Alexey Levykin.
"Albrecht Durer and his era. German engraving of the end of XV-XVI centuries from the collection of the Historical Museum", March 1 – April 4
The exhibition will feature engravings by the greatest German Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer, as well as works by his prominent contemporaries and compatriots, kept in the collection of the State Historical Museum. The collection reflects a wide range of themes and a variety of engraving techniques typical of German art of the time. The exhibition will introduce the audience to the highest achievements of printed graphics, such as the famous "workshops" of Durer's prints, two of which are in the collection of the Historical Museum — "Melancholia I" and "St. Jerome is in his cell." The exhibition will also feature coins, weapons and objects of decorative and applied art that existed in Germany at the turn of the XV–XVI centuries.
"Faberge and the Court Jewelers", April 12 – October 3
The exhibition is dedicated to the jewelry art of the Russian Empire in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This period entered the history of art as the "era of the Russian Renaissance." Leading artists turned to the creation of decorative and applied products, including silver and gold, and began to cooperate with jewelry companies. The synthesis of art resulted in unexpected artistic solutions for precious products of this period. The exhibition will feature works by outstanding Russian masters such as Ignaty Sazikov, Ivan Chichelev, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Ivan Khlebnikov, and the Grachev brothers.
A special role in the flourishing of jewelry was played by the court supplier of the Russian Imperial Court and many royal courts of Europe, Carl Faberge, whose name has become synonymous with jewelry genius. A separate section of the exhibition is dedicated to his works, telling about the contribution of the master to the Russian jewelry business, which has more than 1,000 years of history.
"Merchant portrait of the XVIII – early twentieth century from the collection of the Historical Museum", November 8, 2022 – March 27, 2023
"Antique Vases", October 25, 2022 – January 30, 2023
The exhibition presents the history of the art of ancient Greek vase painting from the middle of the second millennium to the third century BC. The earliest vessels are from the island of Crete and Mycenaean craterisks (XV—XIII centuries BC). Vase painting of the late Archaic and classical times is illustrated with black–figured ceramics of Corinth and Athens. The heyday of ancient Greek vase painting of the VI–V centuries BC is represented by black-figured and red-figured vessels of Attic masters. The exhibition will also feature the products of the masters of Southern Italy of the IV century BC. Among the exhibits are vases not only from former private collections, but also from regular excavations in the Northern Black Sea region, on the territory of modern Russia and Ukraine, which read the history of the Greek colonies on the shores of the Black Sea.
