The British Museum of Everything opened its fifth exhibition in St. Petersburg on 16 August 2012. It is the only traveling museum in the world that collects and displays paintings by unrecognized and unknown artists.
The museum travels to different countries and cities and provides an opportunity for all those who can draw to express themselves. The exhibition in St. Petersburg shows canvases by artists who have not exhibited their work before, as well as self-taught artists and masters of non-traditional painting.
The Museum of Everything invites unknown Russian artists who have not received a special education, including self-taught artists, for cooperation. The works of all those who create in alternative, non-traditional and naive genres, casual artists, visionary masters are accepted.
The exhibition in St. Petersburg will feature works by artists who discovered their skills already in old age, homeless artists, disabled artists, creative people held in churches, hospitals and prisons.
The museum also exhibits anonymous works, works of already deceased artists, masters who create in the style of outsider art or art brut. The organizers of the museum believe that none of the artists can be an outsider, and it is absolutely unimportant what social position they occupy and what exactly they paint.
Before St. Petersburg, the museum has already visited Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod. In the near future he will come to Moscow and will be accommodated in the Gorky Park.
Founded The Museum of Everything by James Brett in 2009 to help promote outsider art. His collection is represented by works by unknown artists and self-taught artists of the century before last, past and present. Exhibitions with expositions from the "Museum of Everything" have already been viewed by about 300 thousand people from different parts of the world.
The museum exhibits not only paintings, but also sculptures and photographs of installations. The Museum of Everything has its own official website, where you can get acquainted in detail with all questions related to the work of the museum, the organization of exhibitions, and the acceptance of works. In addition, the site has interesting blogs - travel diaries of the museum in different countries with photographs of expositions and not only them.
