Parkhomovsky Historical and Art Museum. A. Luneva
Parkhomivsky historical and art museum named after. A. Luneva
Ukraine, Kharkiv
Parkhomovsky Historical and Art Museum. A. Luneva is a provincial art gallery, called the “rural Hermitage”. The gallery was created in the building of the office of the sugar factory in 1955 by the village teacher Afanasy Fedorovich Lunev, as a department of the school museum, from paintings acquired by Lunev at the Kharkov flea market or donated to him, first by Kharkov artists, and then by artists from different parts of the Soviet Union. Over the 60 years of the gallery's operation, its collection has grown to 6,000 exhibits: icons, paintings and drawings, posters and etchings, sculptures, an archaeological collection, ethnographic materials, decorative art objects, porcelain items of the 18th century, etc. Among them are the works of P. Picasso, Rembrandt, I. Aivazovsky, I. Levitan, K. Malevich, I. Repin, T. Shevchenko, V. Mayakovsky, K. Bryullov, N. Roerich, M. Vrubel and many others.