The largest cultural center of the Chuvash Republic is a state art museum has a rich collection of foreign and domestic art. The museum was founded in 1939 as an art gallery, the exhibition is composed of 293 works of sculpture, painting, drawing and arts and crafts masters of Russian and Chuvash.

Today in the funds of the Chuvash art museum houses more than forty thousand unique pieces of art from different countries, placed in four buildings. The main three-story building was designed specifically for the museum architect V.D.Shatilovym and built in 1985. A former merchant's mansion of the merchant Ephraim (1911) Art Nouveau takes Department of Russian and foreign art (street. K.Ivanova 4). Memorial Apartment Museum M.S.Spiridonova located on the second floor of the house where he lived and worked Honored Artist of Russia (str. Urukova 15/1). Center for Contemporary Art, which hosts temporary exhibitions, is located on the picturesque Gulf of Cheboksary, on the ground floor of an apartment house (Presidential Boulevard 1/15).

Exhibits Chuvash State Art Museum are the masterpieces of Russian, Soviet and world art. The permanent exhibition includes paintings Surikov, Levitan, Repin, Petrov-Vodkin, Kustodiev, Serov, and many other works by artists of world renown. Also on display in the museum priceless monuments of icon painting, unique samples of national applied art and artistic values ​​of the Chuvash people.