Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum. Y.Bokshaya
The Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum, named after one of the founders of the Transcarpathian School of Painting Yosyp Bokshay since 1990, was founded in 1948.
Initially, it functioned as a successor to the former Zemsky Art Gallery in several halls of Uzhhorod Castle. In 1979, the museum moved to the historic center of Uzhgorod - to Zhupanatska Square, 3 in the premises of the former board of the Uzhansky Committee (architectural monument of 1809), where it is located to this day. The museum's funds have been actively formed since the 1950s, from museum expositions in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Lviv, as well as from revenues from various institutions, private collections and the artists themselves. Today they have more than 10 thousand exhibits - paintings, graphics, iconography, sculpture, casting, decorative and applied arts. The museum building is a majestic, two-storey building erected in the late Baroque style with a total area of almost 1.5 thousand square meters. m. In the left wing and the central hall twice a month there are alternating art exhibitions, and in the right wing there are exhibits of permanent exhibitions.