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      Art: Hermitage-Ural, cast iron and icons

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The three main art museums in the centre, with street art in between: Europe in the Granit printing house, the cast-iron Kasli Pavilion and golden Nevyansk icons.

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        🖼 Hermitage-Ural
        ул. Вайнера, 11
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        The Museum of Fine Arts building on Vainera, the former Granit printing house: Western European sculpture and painting and joint exhibitions with the Hermitage.
        Open Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00. Start with the building itself: the former Granit printing house of 1914.
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        Hermitage-Ural
        © Ingenua-ragazza · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Hermitage-Ural
        © Митрохина Марина · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The building was put up in 1914 for the Granit printing house to a design by K. T. Babykin, in the Art Nouveau style.
        • From 1936 it housed a picture gallery.
        • In 2021, after reconstruction, the Hermitage-Ural cultural and exhibition centre opened here.
        • It is one of the four buildings of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts.
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      3. 2
        🏛 “Wall of Angels” street art
        ул. 8 Марта, 22/1
        A large mural from the Stenografia festival on 8 Marta Street — one of the most striking murals in the centre.
        The Stenografia mural on 8 Marta — 5 minutes from the museum.
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        • The Stenografia street art festival has been held in Yekaterinburg every year since 2010, on the first weekend of July.
        • The festival’s works are scattered around the centre — on blank walls, in archways and courtyards.
        • Murals are sometimes painted over or covered with new ones — check that this one is still there.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Museum of Fine Arts: the Kasli Pavilion
        ул. Воеводина, 5
        🎟 ticket
        The main building of the Museum of Fine Arts on the Iset: the cast-iron Kasli Pavilion from the 1900 Paris exhibition, Russian painting and Nevyansk icons.
        The cast-iron pavilion from the 1900 exhibition and Russian painting. Wednesday to Sunday.
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        Museum of Fine Arts: the Kasli Pavilion
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Museum of Fine Arts: the Kasli Pavilion
        © Vadim Zhivotovsky · CC BY 3.0
        • The pavilion was cast at the Kasli ironworks for the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, where it won the Grand Prix.
        • It is the only cast-iron architectural structure in a museum collection anywhere in the world.
        • The pavilion, about 5 metres high, has been in the museum since 1958.
        • The museum building is the former hospital of the Yekaterinburg ironworks, built in the 1730s and early 1740s.
        • The city’s first theatre performance took place here in 1843.
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      7. 4
        🍽 Gorozhane restaurant
        ул. Добролюбова, 6
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        Lunch a stone’s throw from the museum.
        🍴 An original menu a stone’s throw from the Museum of Fine Arts, with breakfast from 8:30. What to order: the seasonal soup, a main made with local produce, the dessert of the day.
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      9. 5
        🖼 Nevyansk Icon Museum
        ул. Энгельса, 15
        🎟 ticket
        Russia’s first private icon museum: hundreds of Nevyansk icons of the 18th–20th centuries with gold backgrounds and an Old Believer history.
        ≈15 minutes along Malysheva: hundreds of Nevyansk icons with gold backgrounds.
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        Nevyansk Icon Museum
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum opened on 4 December 1999 as Russia’s first private icon museum.
        • The collection holds more than 700 Nevyansk icons of the 18th–20th centuries.
        • The Nevyansk school of icon painting existed from the 1730s to the early 20th century; it was created by Old Believer masters.
        • Its heyday is linked with the workshop of the Bogatyrev dynasty in the first third of the 19th century.
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      11. 6
        ☕️ TRU Chocolate
        ул. Пушкина, 4
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        Hot chocolate and handmade chocolates to finish.
        🍴 A craft chocolate coffee shop on Pushkina. What to order: hot chocolate, syrniki (cottage-cheese pancakes), handmade chocolates to take away.

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