A major cultural centre of the Chuvash Republic is the state art Museum has a rich collection of works of foreign and domestic art. The Museum was founded in 1939 as an art gallery with a permanent exhibition consisted of 293 works of sculpture, painting, graphics and decorative arts of Russian and Chuvash masters.

In our days, in the collections of Chuvash art Museum houses over forty thousand unique pieces of art from different countries, located in four buildings. The main three-storey building was designed specifically for the Museum by architect V. D. Shatilova and was built in 1985. Former merchant mansion of the merchant Ephraim (1911) art Nouveau is a Department of Russian and foreign art (K. Ivanov str. 4). Memorial Museum-apartment of M. S. Spiridonova is located on the second floor of the house, where he lived and worked honoured worker of arts of Russia (St. Urakova 15/1). Center for contemporary art, which hosts temporary exhibitions, located along the picturesque Cheboksary Bay, on the first floor of the house (Presidential Boulevard 1/15).

The exhibits of the Chuvash state art Museum are masterpieces of Russian, Soviet and world art. In the permanent exhibition are paintings of V. Surikov, I. Levitan, I. Repin, K. Petrov-Vodkin, B. Kustodiev, V. Serov, and many other works by artists of world renown. Also in the Museum's priceless monuments of iconography, unique samples of national applied art and artistic value of the Chuvash people.