Museums of Russia: Permanent exposition “Kaliningrad-Königsberg: bridge over time” is underway

The Kaliningrad Museum of Fine Arts has mounted the permanent exposition “Kaliningrad- Königsberg: bridge over time”. The exhibition is opened on the second floor of the former Königsberg Exchange, the museum’s new building. The exposition occupies several halls covering the area of 200 square meters.

The exposition starts with a series of tablets, showing rare photo documents, maps, photographs of old architecture and reproductions of unique paintings, which highlight Königsberg.

The central hall showcases artworks of representatives of the Königsberg Academy of Arts and the School of Arts and Crafts. Some of exposition’s sections spotlight renowned German artists, whose life and works are associated with Königsberg, – K. Kollwitz - German artist, who worked with printmaking and sculpture, printmaker and artist L. Corinth, and sculptor S. Cauer.

One of the halls focuses on the collection of the Fahrenheit family from the Beynuhnen Palace, which has been lost.

Among other exhibits are photographs by A. Terekhovkin, O. Maximov, S. Pokrovsky and others, which illustrate the destroyed and gradually restored city and build a kind of a bridge between the past and the present of the city.