Mikhail Kroshitsky Sevastopol Art Museum
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The M.Kroshitsky Sevastopol Art Museum (Sevastopolskyi khudozhnii muzei imeni M.P.Kroshytskoho) is an art museum located in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. The museum is located in the centre of the city, in a "remarkable" four-story mansion with a "magnificently decorated facade," built in the late 19th century by the "personal honorary citizen of Sevastopol" merchant Semyon Gavalov. After the formation of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1921, the museum was opened in November 1927 “for the broadest masses of the people.” It was renamed in 1991, in honour of Mikhail Kroshitsky, museum director from 1939 to 1958. Its collection is organized into three departments: Western European Art, Art of the Russian Empire of the 18th - early 20th centuries, and Soviet, or more specifically Crimean, Art of the 20th century.
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