Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukacheva is one of the oldest museums in Russia.
The basis of the collection was the picture gallery of the mayor of Irkutsk, Vladimir Platonovich Sukachev, collected by him at the end of the XIX century.
The museum funds include over 23 thousand works of painting, graphic art, sculpture, decorative and applied art.
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Museum site.