Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1936. It kept the exhibits from the local history museum. Paintings and other objects from the evacuated Hermitage were brought to the museum during the Great Patriotic War. Later, some of the works, kept in the Hermitage, along with the works of art from the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum completed the collection of the Urals Museum.
Now people come here first of all to see the main treasure of the Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg - the richest collection of works of art of ornamental casting. Here you can also see a unique pavilion of the Kasli cast iron, which won the grand prize of the Paris World’s Fair (The Exposition Universelle) in 1900.