The Municipal exhibition hall of the Department of culture was founded in 1997 in the city of Petrozavodsk. In 2002, the exhibition hall was transformed into a Municipal cultural institution called "City hall", which is one of the largest and most famous exhibition grounds in the heart of the city.

Every year seems to be about 12-14 exhibitions. The exhibition hall is drawing, sculpture, painting, media art, photography, and many other kinds of visual arts. Thematic and group exhibitions skilled and professional artists from Petrozavodsk and other cities of Russia and from abroad - it is a vast scope of interests of the proposed exhibits.

One of the most important directions in the work and activities of the City's exhibition hall has to do with modern foreign art, to a special extent of the Northern countries. During the existence of the Museum were held here exhibitions of artists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Faroe Islands. In addition, an exhibition hall organized a number of international hits and hits, which included works by the great masters from Italy, Czech Republic, great Britain, Georgia, Japan, USA, Lithuania, France and Germany. The most memorable of these exhibitions was the exhibition of Modern Scandinavian glass" 2003 "Poster. Double visit" 2002, and many others.

Among the considerable number of exhibitions that were organised by the City exhibition hall, there are two designs intended for prolonged viewing and wheel drive through historical development. These exhibitions include: "aquabiennale" and Triennale "Fingerprints". Project aquabiennale" every year for the past two years collected in the city of Petrozavodsk numerous works of artists from many countries. The project "Footprints" is an exhibition devoted to contemporary art, as well as numerous and diverse types of printing various images on various substrates: film, paper, clay and others. In the midst of attention of the international project presents: photo, draw graphics, video art, numerous varieties of mixed techniques and computer generation.

City exhibition hall is considered one of the modern, multicultural centers Petrozavodsk. On the small stage of the hall in the period from October to may sounds beautiful in a contemporary style, antique chamber music, folklore, jazz and bard songs. Numerous concerts, tours of the exhibitions, literary evenings, lectures on the development of art, as well as master classes by popular artists is an integral part of the exhibition "repertoire". This kind of rich and versatile program which is offered to visitors of different ages, interests, showroom makes it a particularly attractive and versatile item on the tourist map of Petrozavodsk.

The main feature and hallmark of the Petrozavodsk City exhibition hall is the focus and commitment to quality and professionalism of the works displayed in the exhibitions. In addition, the exhibition hall offers the most advanced range of topics, events and names presents contemporary fine art, which are so popular with a large number of art lovers.