ON THE ISSUE OF COMPLETION OF THE COLLECTION OF WORKS BY RUSSIAN ACADEMICIANS OF THE IRKUTSK REGIONAL ART MUSEUM NAMED AFTER V.P. SUKACHEV (1983-2015)
The article considers the experience of forming a unique collection of Russian academicians in one of the oldest museums in Russia (1870), numbering hundreds of names of painters, sculptors, masters of graphics and decorative and applied art. It combines practices of museum interaction with local creative unions and organizations, with collectors and patrons, with masters and their descendants, as well as with the “Irkutsk Maecenas” Charitable Foundation, that help to raise funds to replenish the museum collection, restore works of art, study and introduce them into scientific circulation. It also considers the museums policy in the field of completion of the museums collection that aims to replenish the existing valuable monographic funds of individual artists, as well as those that are still at the beginning of their development. The article deals with the promotion of the museum's activities towards the publication of the prepared fundamental, (general) scientific catalogue “Russian Art of the 18th - early 20th centuries in the collection of the Irkutsk Art Museum named after V.P. Sukachev. Painting, graphics (drawing, water color). Decorative and Applied Arts (Glass, Silver, Porcelain)”, a significant place in which is occupied by the collection of Russian academicians with an extensive introductory article, which provides detailed information about the acquisition of this collection and comprehensive, to date, material about each work.