Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, decorative arts, furniture, textiles, costume, drawings, pastels, watercolors, collages, prints, artists' books, photographs, and installation art are also regularly shown. Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as performance art, music concerts, or poetry readings.

Types of galleries

The term is used for both public galleries, which are non-profit or publicly owned museums that display selected collections of art. On the other hand, private galleries refers to the commercial enterprises for the sale of art. However, both types of gallery may host traveling exhibits or temporary exhibitions including art borrowed from elsewhere.

Art Museum (Ivano-Frankivsk)

Art Museum Prycarpattya (Ukrainian: Музей мистецтв Прикрапаття) is a regional art museum that is located in the Collegiate Church of Virgin Mary in Ivano-Frankivsk. It has one of the best collection of the local religious art.

It is the only art museum in the region and specialized in studying works of local artists and ancient art.

The museum was established in 1980 and replaced the museum of geology of the city's Institute of Oil and Gas. It possesses a 15,000 item collection.

The most important are exhibitions of the "Religious art of Galicia in 15th-20th centuries" and baroque sculptures of Johann-George Pinzel.

The museum has two branches:

Collection

At the end of 2000s collection accounted for some 15,000 samples which include unique benchmarks of Galician iconography and baroque sculpture, particularly six sculptures of Pinzel, and classical works of western Ukrainian painting Kornylo Ustyianovych, Ivan Trush, Yulian Pankevych, Yaroslav Pstrak, Oleksa Novakivsky, Osyp Sorokhtei, Olena Kulchytska, and other works of various artists.