October 11, 2018 on the third floor of the main building VOHM them. I.N. Kramsky hosted the opening day of the Ladies’ Handbag exhibition.

In the welcome speech. Director Vokhm them. I.N. Kramskoy Olga Ryabchikova told that cooperation with the Yaroslavl Art Museum began in 2014, when an exhibition of masterpieces of the Yaroslavl icon painting school of the XVII – XIX centuries was presented in the art museum. The partnership continued in 2015, then the exhibition “Behind the Red Line” arrived in Voronezh, presenting the works of artists from the pre-revolutionary period. And, finally, today, another museum from the collection of the YACHM is opened in the museum, dedicated to one of the main accessories of a woman – a handbag.

Olga Alexandrovna also told that the exhibitions from the Yaroslavl Art Museum are notable for their thoroughness, style and professionalism. The Ladies’ Handbag exhibition is not just a series of exhibits, but a whole story of a woman, an era, styles, forms, materials. There is no doubt that this exhibition, like the previous ones, will cause great interest among art lovers.

The chief curator of the Voronezh Regional Museum of Local History, Svetlana Tolkacheva, compared a handbag to a canvas on which each master reproduces anything: scenes, patterns, landscapes, ornaments, etc., thus making each bag a masterpiece that can tell a lot about the owner interesting.

The curator of the exhibition, deputy director of the Yaroslavl Art Museum, Alexey Fedorchuk told the audience about how the collection of handbags of the Yaroslavl Museum was collected. As an art museum, first of all, the value was represented by handbags of artwork, or handbags, reflecting this or that style, or the development of manufactory production. Alexey Viktorovich noted that the exposition presented a pictorial image of a woman as a lyrical heroine, who could well be the owner of all the wealth of the purses and purses presented at the exhibition.

At the end of the opening, all the guests took part in a curator tour of the exhibition, during which they learned a lot of interesting facts and details about the presented masterpieces of decorative and applied art.

In total, the exhibition features 63 items (handbags, wallets, accessories) from the collection of arts and crafts of the Yaroslavl Art Museum.

The exhibition will run until January 20, 2019.