City Municipal Exhibition Hall Department of Culture was established in 1997 in the city of Petrozavodsk. In 2002, the exhibition hall was transformed into a municipal cultural institution under the name "City Exhibition Hall", which is one of the largest and most famous exhibition grounds in the heart of the city.

Every year seems about 12-14 exhibitions. Showroom presents graphics, sculpture, painting, media art, photography, as well as many other kinds of visual arts. Case, as well as group exhibitions skilled and professional artists from Petrozavodsk and other Russian cities and from abroad - that it is a broad scope of interests offered exposures.

One of the most important directions in the work and activities of the Municipal Exhibition Hall is relevant to contemporary foreign art, particularly as the Nordic countries. During the existence of the museum is not just carried out an exhibition of artists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the Faroe Islands. In addition, the exhibition hall was organized by a number of international hits and views, which included the works of the great masters from Italy, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Georgia, Japan, the US, Lithuania, France and Germany. The most memorable of these exhibitions is an exhibition, "Modern Scandinavian glass" 2003 "poster. Double-visit "in 2002 and many others.

Among the considerable number of exhibitions organized by the city's exhibition hall, there are two projects, designed for long-term view and leading through historical development. These exhibitions include: "Aquabiennale" as well as the triennial "fingerprints". The "Aquabiennale" annually for the past two years, gathers in Petrozavodsk numerous works watercolors from many countries. The "prints" - is an exposition dedicated to contemporary art, as well as numerous and diverse types of imprinting images on all sorts of different surfaces: film, paper, clay and others. In the center of attention of the international project includes: Photo, Draw graphics, video art, numerous varieties of mixed techniques and computer generation.

City Exhibition Hall is considered one of today's multicultural center of Petrozavodsk. On the small stage of the hall during the period from October to May sounds lovely old-style modern chamber music, folk, jazz, bard songs. Numerous concerts and tours of the exhibitions, literary evenings, lectures on the development of art, as well as master classes popular artists - an integral part of the exhibition "repertoire." This kind of rich and versatile program, which is offered to visitors of different ages, interests, makes the exhibition hall is particularly attractive and versatile item on the tourist map of Petrozavodsk.

The main feature and hallmark of Petrozavodsk City Exhibition Hall is the orientation and focus on the quality and professionalism of the works presented at the exhibitions. In addition, the exhibition hall offers the most advanced range of topics, events and names submitted by contemporary visual arts, which are so popular with a large number of connoisseurs of art.