Dinner invitation

Exhibition September 20 − December 15, 2019
The department of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum "Cultural and Exhibition Center of the Russian Museum" hosts an exhibition from the collection of the State Russian Museum"Invitation to dinner".

The exposition presents sixty works of painting, graphic arts, decorative and applied art of the 18th-21st centuries, revealing the visual embodiment of the traditions of the Russian feast, feasting merchants and noble or modest peasant dinners.

Genre paintings and still lifes offer to plunge into the atmosphere of different eras through the prism of plots of famous brush masters. From a feast lunch to a modest ration of herring with bread, which became a symbol of the period of the Civil War. The colorful feast "Cookbook of the Russian Museum", complemented by art objects and photographs, will help visitors to get a more complete picture of the diverse wealth of Russian history

Based on site materialsMurmansk Regional Art Museum.

Galleries at the exhibition