Marc Chagall House Museum
Дом-музей Марка Шагала
The red-brick cottage where Chagall spent his childhood and youth, furnished as an early 20th-century Jewish family home. It is the starting point for tracing Chagall’s footsteps.
The house stands on Pokrovskaya Street on the west side of the old town (formerly Pokrovskaya Street No. 11). Chagall’s father built this single-story red-brick house around 1900. Chagall spent his childhood and youth here, and many of the Vitebsk street scenes in his paintings come from this neighborhood. The museum opened in 1997. It has restored the kitchen, the bedroom and the shop where his father ran a small grocery, and it displays family photographs and documents. The courtyard has a statue of Chagall, and the little street in front of the house appears in his work. The museum is closed on Mondays. Admission is very inexpensive, and a combined ticket with the Art Centre is available.
Opening hours
Closed Mon; 11:00–19:00
Nearby sights
- Marc Chagall Art Center
- Governor's Palace
- Holy Spirit Convent
- Holy Assumption Cathedral
- Church of the Annunciation
- Suvorov Street
- Vitebsk Town Hall
- Church of the Resurrection