Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Five imperial Easter eggs made by Fabergé for the Russian tsars form the centrepiece of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' Russian decorative arts collection, one of the largest of its kind outside Russia. In Richmond, the museum opened in 1936 as one of the first state-supported art museums in the United States, and it now draws more than 400,000 visitors a year.

The collection spans from ancient Egypt and the classical world to the present. It includes strong holdings of South Asian and Himalayan art, American painting and decorative arts, and modern and contemporary work. Gifts from Paul and Rachel Mellon brought French Impressionist paintings and British sporting art, while Sydney and Frances Lewis gave a notable group of Art Nouveau and Art Deco objects.

Outside, a sculpture garden surrounds the building. At the entrance stands Kehinde Wiley's Rumors of War, a monumental bronze of a young Black man on horseback that answers the Confederate statues that once lined nearby Monument Avenue.