Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum, one of the oldest museums in the Volga region, keeps the most valuable cultural heritage, which has a nationwide and global significance. Collection of the Art Museum began to take shape in 1895 as an artistic division of historical and archaeological museum Simbirsk provincial scientific archival commission. Among the masterpieces of Western European art, defining the uniqueness of the collection are the works of outstanding artists of France, Spain, Holland XVI-XVII centuries. The pride of the museum are paintings by D. Levitsky, F. Rokotoff, V. Borovikovsky, K. Bryullov, A. Ivanov. The unique collection of manor portraits created by serf masters Simbirsk. The department of arts and crafts in its composition contains ancient pottery IV-III centuries BC. e., porcelain Russia, Germany and France, art furniture, Russian and Western European glass. The museum has significant collections of monographic, without which it is impossible to present a sufficiently complete creative K. Bryullov, V. Khudyakov, A. Plastova D. Arkhangelsk