🏛 Another important style shaping the architectural image of Samara is Constructivism.
Unlike Art Nouveau, the early Soviet avant-garde architecture attracts attention not with decoration but with form and functionality. Perhaps the city’s main masterpiece of the 1920s–1930s is the famous factory-kitchen building, designed in the shape of a hammer and sickle.
In 2024, the building was restored and reopened as a branch of the Tretyakov Gallery. The permanent exhibition tells the story of the original food combine that once operated here. Inside you’ll also find a café, a souvenir shop, and a small library. ☕📚
Until March 29, the museum is hosting the exhibition “Childhood. Dreams.” The project reflects on Soviet childhood and artistically recreates the imaginative world of a child in the 20th century.
Visitors can see playful installations such as a giant school desk greeting confused first-graders, a pillow fort, a toy shop display, slides, and other interactive objects — you can even try some of them and briefly feel like a kid again. 🎈
The exhibition also includes a strong collection of paintings on the same theme, with works by Petrov-Vodkin, Deineka, Reshetnikov, and other artists familiar from school textbooks.
This was the place I wanted to visit first of all — and I definitely didn’t regret it. A great museum!
📍Coordinates: Yandex.Maps
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