Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum named after Joseph Bokshay is one of the region centers of cultural and artistic life. The Museum collections include paintings, drawings, sculptures and pieces of decorative and applied arts.

History:

In Zhupanatska Square there is a building of former Uzhgorod zhupanat (city council) which is worth seeing. It was used for administrative functions, as well as for receptions, balls, meetings. In fact a telephone was presented there in 1878 as a miracle of modern technologies of that time. And in 1979 Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum named after Joseph Bokshay was located in the building of former city council.

Huge collection of the finest examples of Ukrainian and world art, presented today at the museum, began with the exhibition of the former territorial Art Gallery, which was opened for visitors in 1948 in Uzhgorod castle. Over time, the exhibit was replenished with pieces of art from private collections and museums of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc.

Today museum funds include more than 5000 exhibits. There you can see paintings of the outstanding marine artist Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian landscape artists Shishkin and Savrasov, works of Danish, Hungarian, Slovak, Polish artists of Renaissance, French Romanticism, Italian Classicism, Dutch realism etc.

There is a rich Ukrainian exhibition with the masterpieces belonging to the representatives of Transcarpathian artistic school, including Adalbert Erdelyi, Andrew Kotska, Theodore Manailo and, of course, Joseph Bokshay — the Founder of Transcarpathian artistic school, an artist and a teacher.