- Nowadays the collection of the museum has over 14 thousands article of art, decorative and applied arts, works of painters of the Penza art school.
- One of the oldest educational institutions in Russia is the Savitsky Penza Art School.
- Alfred studied at the Penza Art School, and obtained his higher education at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (1948-1954) at the faculty of arts.
- Edgar Degas \\ Edgar Degas was very experimental with his mediums in art, often drawing with chalk, painting with oil on canvas, and sketching dancers in pencil...
- The museum presents large sections of Western European, Russian, modern art, works of artists of the Penza art school.
- In the central part of the city of Penza, there is a beautiful Art Nouveau building with a colored majolica panel and a tower topped with a four-sided tent.
- In 1786, the Penza Public School was founded - one of the oldest educational institutions in Russia. In 1796, the town became the center of the Penza Governorate.
- The personal exhibition of Penza artist Nadezhda Kabanova is opened at Art School named after A.S. olubkina in Zaraysk of the Moscow Region.
- ...his collection of pictures, a library and half a million roubles to the сity for construction of an art school and a museum to commemorate his being a Penza governer.