The Marc Chagall Museum (Belarusian: Віцебскі музей Марка Шагала) is a museum dedicated to the painter Marc Chagall, in his hometown of Vitebsk, Belarus. The museum was founded by the decision of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee on October 23, 1991. The total area is 294 m2 (3,160 sq ft); it has five exposition and four exhibition halls. The museum is housed in two buildings, the Marc Chagall Art Center and the Marc Chagall House-Museum. The Marc Chagall Art Center, at 2 Putna Street, was opened in 1992. Exhibitions of graphic works by Chagall from the museum's collection are held here: woodcuts, etchings, aquatints, a series of illustrations of Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls" (1923-1925), a series of color lithographs from 1956 and 1960 on the theme of the Bible, a cycle of colour lithographs entitled The 12 tribes of Israel (1960) and other of his works. The museum also houses a collection of printed graphics by European avant-garde artists such as Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger. The Art Center has a scientific library dedicated to the works of Chagall and other avant-garde artists, which has more than 3500 volumes. More information...
According to PR-model, chagal-vitebsk.com is ranked 108,092nd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 12,373rd in Russian Wikipedia.
The website is placed before fishnames.com.au and after prgparis.org in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
