Simferopol Art Museum

The Simferopol State Art Museum
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Established1937
Location35 Dolgorukovkaya St. Simferopol, Crimea
DirectorLarina Kudryashova
Websitehttp://simhm.ru

Simferopol State Art Museum (Russian: Симферопольский художественный музей) is an art museum located in the Crimean capital Simferopol.

Simferopol Art Museum was founded in 1937. There more than 6,000 artworks in its collection. Its address is Karl Libkneht str., 35.[1]

Simferopol Art Museum has displayed looted art from Germany, claimed by the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen.[2][3]

Before the start of World War II Museum is one of the largest collections of Western European art in the Soviet Union with more than 2,000 items owned. Almost the entire collection was destroyed in air raids during the war of the Germans in the Crimea. The Aachen pictures are to be regarded as compensation for their own losses.[4]

Other prominent museums in Simferopol include the History Museum and the Country Museum (the Crimean Republican Museum of Local Lore).[5]

References

  1. ^ Travel Advisor information Archived 2008-08-28 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Crimean Museum Displays Looted Art From Germany, Deutsche Welle.
  3. ^ Maria Danilova, Ukraine unlikely to return German paintings, ABC News, 13 November 2008.
  4. ^ Streit um Gemälde in der Ukraine
  5. ^ Crimean museums Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine

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