Montana - Bulgarian town, which is located on the banks of the river Ogosta at the foot of the Balkans. To Sofia from here about a hundred kilometers. The city is a major transportation hub, is an economic and cultural center.

In Montana, an art gallery, which was opened in 1972. It has a rich collection and is one of the most important provincial galleries and cultural institutions. The funds of the gallery are stored work of several generations of artists - from the mid-19th century to the present. Here are paintings of famous Bulgarian artists as Vasily Stoilov, Nikolay Pavlovich, Jaroslav VESCINE Ivan Myrkvichka, Venev Stoyan Alexander Mutafov, Vladimir Dimitrov-Maystora, Zeno Todorov, Nikolai Raina, Ivan Milev, Dimitar Boyadzhiev, Dechko Uzunov, Kiril Petrov. Part of the gallery assigned to local painters, we can see the work of Galileo Simeonov, Venelin Zahariev, Theodosia Antonov Kraychevoy Eugenia, Nikolai Penkov.

City Art Gallery is the cultural center of Montana. It hosts a variety of concerts, literary meetings, celebrations of traditional city events. Gallery is the organizer and partner of many events abroad including, for example, children's drawing competition. The works, which recognized the best in such competitions, are stored in the gallery, where there is a special department of children's creativity.