The first exhibition of artists in Bendery celebrateв its 50th anniversary

The Art Gallery of Bendery opened its doors to visitors on the 11th of February, 1972. The first in its history was an exhibition of Russian artists. The Pridnestrovian State Art Museum held a videoconference for the half-century anniversary. It was attended by Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council Galina Antyufeeva. The vice-speaker sent congratulations to the management and employees of the museum.

The opening of the Art Gallery in Bendery fell on the years of the “museum boom”. It happened on August 1, 1971 at the suggestion of the first secretary of the Bendery Committee of the KPM Alexei Matsnev. Alexey Losev was appointed the first director of the gallery. It was he who became the founder of the principles of scientific, collecting and educational work. Losev on the eve of the opening of the first exhibition studied the experience of the best museums in the Soviet Union and built the work of a young art gallery so that its expositions were relevant and interesting for representatives of different generations. It was today at the Pridnestrovian State Art Museum that the foundations of a museum of the republican level were laid under Losev.

50 years have passed since the opening of the first exhibition. During this time, the gallery exhibited expositions from the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin and the State Museum of Oriental Arts. People could see Russian paintings of the 19th century, copies of Rubens' works, classical Japanese graphics and the art of modern India in the halls of the art museum. The pride of the collection are the works of such famous and talented artists as Ivan Bilibin, Vladimir Stozharov, Igor Vieru and Pridnestrovian authors.

More than 1 million 400 thousand visitors over the years have become acquainted with the art of different countries and peoples within the walls of the Pridnestrovian State Art Museum. Its storerooms contain about four thousand works of fine art now, including Russian and Western European engravings of the XVIII-XX centuries, Ukrainian and Baltic ceramics, Gzhel porcelain, Palekh miniatures, Lvov free glass and traditional Moldavian tapestries.