VITEBSK, 20 May (BelTA) - In 2024, the Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk drew more than 55,000 visitors, Irina Voronova, director of the museum, said at a press conference to discuss the social and cultural potential of Vitebsk Oblast, BelTA learned.
The Marc Chagall Museum includes the Marc Chagall Art Center and the memorial house-museum where the world famous artist lived. "The cultural institution is one of the main points of attraction for tourists. Last year for the first time in 30 years we had the largest flow of visitors - more than 55,000,” Irina Voronova noted.
In January, the Marc Chagall Museum took over the Vitebsk Center of Contemporary Art with the Museum of the History of the Vitebsk People's Art School, the exhibition hall on Beloborodova Street, the music lounge on Frunze Avenue and the Art Space on Tolstoy Street. Irina Voronova noted that thanks to these spaces it will be possible to redirect the flow of tourists to new objects.
"The Museum of the History of the Vitebsk People's Art School is directly related to the activities of Marc Chagall as Commissioner for Art in Vitebsk Province from 1918 to 1920. Now we are readjusting temporary exhibition projects there," she noted.
The Marc Chagall Museum includes the Marc Chagall Art Center and the memorial house-museum where the world famous artist lived. "The cultural institution is one of the main points of attraction for tourists. Last year for the first time in 30 years we had the largest flow of visitors - more than 55,000,” Irina Voronova noted.
In January, the Marc Chagall Museum took over the Vitebsk Center of Contemporary Art with the Museum of the History of the Vitebsk People's Art School, the exhibition hall on Beloborodova Street, the music lounge on Frunze Avenue and the Art Space on Tolstoy Street. Irina Voronova noted that thanks to these spaces it will be possible to redirect the flow of tourists to new objects.
"The Museum of the History of the Vitebsk People's Art School is directly related to the activities of Marc Chagall as Commissioner for Art in Vitebsk Province from 1918 to 1920. Now we are readjusting temporary exhibition projects there," she noted.
This year the museum celebrates 105 years of famous UNOVIS group of artists, a creative association set up by Kazimir Malevich in February 1920.
"To celebrate this event we are bringing to Vitebsk the pieces by Vera Ermolaeva, the ‘amazon’ of Russian avant-garde, ‘Giocondo of Vitebsk’. This will be the first time that we will bring her art to the Republic of Belarus. This will happen by the city day, i.e. in the second half of June. No Belarusian museum has her works. They have not been exhibited anywhere, but they will soon go on view in the place where she worked as a school teacher and director and where she was a member of UNOVIS. The exhibition will be running until mid-August,” Irina Voronova noted.
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