Theme exhibition "A.A.Osmerkin's exhibition activities in photo and documents", dedicated to Alexander Osmerkin's 119th anniversary, shows artist's creative development, his active participation in the exhibitions.
   The basis of the exposition consists of the unique photographs, exhibition catalogues, documents of A.Osmerkin's participation in foreign exhibitions and also catalogues of the posthumous exhibitions of 1959 and 1989 from the artist's personal archive. All the photos and documentation was given to the museum by his widow N.G.Osmerkina and her heiress T.V.Yudina.
   The exhibitions of any artist are one of the basic components of an artistic life. A.A.Osmerkin began exhibiting in 1913 with his participation in the first Elisavetgrad Art Exhibition organized by the Literacy and Craft Society. This exhibition was a test of the brush for him, a graduate of Evening Drawing Classes under Elizabethgrad Real School. In April, 1914 A.A.Osmerkin presented nine works at the Second Art Exhibition in Elisavetgrad. That same year was the first time A.A.Osmerkin participated in the Artists Society "The Knave of Diamonds" exhibition in Moscow. Participation in "The Knave of Diamonds" and the World of Art exhibitions was very important for Alexander Osmerkin not only as a consolidation of his pictorial ideas, but also as his entry into the circle of artists of "the new art", that had already become popular in the artistic circles. Besides, it was recognition of A.A.Osmerkin as a creative personality.
   It is evident from subsequent exhibitions that Alexander Osmerkin's creative work gained more individual, unique traits; a gradual rethinking of reality concerning evolutionary approaches of paintings development takes place. The artist's participation in different exhibitions, videlicet "Exhibition of paintings in the Museum of History" 1924, vernissage "Moscow painters" 1925, paintings expositions of "Bytie" Society, shows that A.A.Osmerkin had been completely shaped as a painter; he established distinct and lucid views on how visual arts should develop. In 1934 the artist's first personal exhibition was opened in the clubhouse of the plant "Kauchuk". Fifty paintings were exposed at the exhibition. The exhibition of Moscow artists' paintings of 1948 became the last one for the painter. Artistic decisions, which Alexander Osmerkin had come to in the second half of the 1940-s, found bright realization in his paintings of this period. Two great retrospective exhibitions of A.A.Osmerkin's works took place after his death in 1959 and in 1989 in Moscow.
   The exposition is located in the memorial hall. Photographs, exhibition catalogues and documents are displayed according to the subject-chronological principle.