The Kemerovo Regional Museum of Fine Arts is among the largest in Siberia. Its history dates back to the opening of a picture gallery in 1969. As of now, the museum has a collection of over 6 000 exhibits: paintings, graphic art, sculpture, and decorative and applied art articles. The best represented part of the collection is Russian art of the 19th through early 21st century.
A special focus is on paintings by artists of the Ural and Siberian regions; the museum develops the regional dimension and sees it as its hallmark. It exhibits Siberian folk craft icons, graphics by local artists made at war, local painters’ landscapes. A special part of the museum is the collection of Jurgis Preuss, a painter who received Soviet citizenship during World War II and lived in Siberia.
