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The Penza Art Gallery is a state museum in Penza. It was founded in 1891 and renamed in 1955 after the artist Konstantin Savitsky, who passed away in Penza in 1905. The gallery’s collection features works of art from both Western Europe and Russia. Additionally, it houses three memorial halls dedicated to Savitsky, Ivan Goryushkin-Sorokopudov, and Aristarkh Lentulov. All three artists have ties to Penza or the surrounding region and have their artwork showcased at the gallery.

The main collection comprises 12,000 artworks dating from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first century. It showcases pieces by Western European, Russian, and Soviet artists. Most notable are the collections of seventeenth-century Dutch art and early modern Russian art.