A unique museum of one painting, glorified the city of Penza in the world, located in the historic city, on Kirov Street. Museum. G.V.Myasnikova opened in February 1983 and the present day analogs of such museums in the world. The uniqueness of the Penza museum is that it has no permanent exhibition, visitors are just one a painting, but with the full history of painting, the story of the life and work of the artist, with illustrations, a slide show accompanied by music. On the creation of slide film with talented writers and directors, and the voices of the texts of the leading artists of the capital's theaters. The museum introduces one painting with masterpieces of foreign and domestic art brought from the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery and other famous museums in Russia.

The history of the museum is also unique in its kind. The initiator and author of the idea of ​​such an unusual museum was a political activist and local historian George V. Myasnikov. The museum is housed in an architectural monument of the nineteenth century, and is a branch of the Penza Picture Gallery named K.A.Savitskogo. Next to the museum housing the main historical attractions of the city - a monument "Pervoposelenets" and "defensive wall".