The collection of the museum contains a collection of ancient Russian art, which includes unique monuments of Moscow and Novgorod icon painting schools of the late 15th-17th centuries, the so-called northern letters of the 18th century, Palekh letters of the end of the 18th century, church copper-molded plastics of the 12th-19th centuries, and church silver of the 18th – 19th centuries; a collection of Russian art of the 18th - early 20th century, a collection of Western European art of the 16th – 19th centuries, a collection of fine and decorative and applied art of Bashkortostan, etc.