After the Explosion: Documenting Chernobyl On view in the Fireside Gallery September 14 – November 3, 2019 The exhibition After the Explosion: Documenting Chernobyl presents a unique collection of photographs of the cleanup of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, through the eyes of a participant. The images originate from the archive of Major General Nikolai Tarakanov […] Read more
Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn On view in the Mezzanine Gallery September 14th, 2019 – March 22nd, 2020 Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series, Ben-Zion’s full 1980 […] Read more
Soviet Posters from TMORA Collection On view in the Main Gallery – September 1st, 2019 through February 23, 2020 The exhibition Soviet Posters from TMORA Collection brings together approximately sixty works by Soviet artists from the 1940s-1980s. This first exhibition of Soviet posters housed by TMORA draws on several private donations, now in the museum’s permanent […] Read more
Treasures of Memory and Hope On view in the main gallery July 20-30, 2019 The Museum of Russian Art, in partnership with St. Sahag Armenian Church, presents a special pop-up exhibition in the main gallery – Treasures of Memory and Hope. After the Armenian Genocide, many survivors and their descendants settled in Minnesota and made this welcoming […] Read more
Village Wardrobes: Traditional Dress from Western and Central Ukraine On view in the Lower Gallery from June 22nd, 2019 through November 3rd, 2019, the exhibition Village Wardrobes: Traditional Dress from Western and Central Ukraine provides a fascinating overview of traditional clothing from ten different ethnographic regions in Ukraine. Dating from the late 19th to the mid-20th […] Read more
