Penza Folk Art Museum

The Penza Folk Art Museum is housed in a superbly embellished constructing which seems like some thing out of a fairy-tale and is one among Penza's most famous landmarks. The museum’s goal is to train human beings about folk carried out art and crafts in order that the traditions can be saved alive. The museum reveals examples of timber carvings, carpet weaving and ceramic, glass and knitted handicrafts. The Museum of Folk Art turned into founden in 1975. It promotes the paintings of people craftsmen, preserves and revives the conventional arts and crafts of the Penza area.

It has a collection of traditional folk arts and crafts specific within the quantity of famous and inventive deserves, protecting the generation from the 1970s to the present day. The museum often hosts non-public exhibitions of masters of the National Artists' Union, creative institutions operating in numerous areas of arts and crafts, grasp classes and innovative conferences. The museum's expositions invariably arouse the interest of site visitors of every age. The attention of the visitors of the museum is attracted by way of the collections of traditional Penza ceramics, wooden sculpture, knitted down articles, art glass, as well as exhibitions of masters operating in present day areas of arts and crafts.