Cultural Institution «Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk»

The museum consists of two buildings: the House-Museum of Marc Chagall Art Center and Marc Chagall. House-Museum of Marc Chagall was opened in 1997, it is located in Pokrovskaya Street in the house, who in the early 1900s. built the artist's father, then Marc Chagall spent his teenage years. The museum displays objects of everyday life the XIX-XX centuries., As well as copies of archival documents and works of the artist, telling about the life of Marc Chagall and his family in Vitebsk. Art Center of Marc Chagall was established in 1992. There are exhibitions of graphic works by Marc Chagall (lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, aquatints). The museum's collections are: a series of illustrations for a poem of Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" (1923 -1925), a series of color lithographs entitled "Bible," created in 1956 and 1960, the cycle of color lithographs "12 tribes of Israel" (1960. ) and other works by Marc Chagall.