Overview
- Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova announced via her Max channel that leading state museums have submitted coordinated exhibition schedules for 2026.
- The State Russian Museum will stage a 210th‑anniversary Ivan Aivazovsky show in the Benois Wing in St. Petersburg, presenting more than 200 works including The Ninth Wave.
- The Russian Museum plans more than 20 exhibitions on its sites and about 80 nationwide, with over 50 regional shows plus Mark Chagall’s The Walk to be shown during Russian Museum Days in Belarus.
- Major projects include a 500‑work survey of the female image at the Mikhailovsky Palace, an Ivan Shishkin retrospective exceeding 150 works, a multi‑city Stepan Erzia anniversary exhibition, and a Petr Konchalovsky retrospective.
- The Pushkin Museum schedules around 20 exhibitions highlighted by the first public display of the Princes Baryatinsky collection and the Impressionists in Siberia tour across Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Abakan, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk.