The Khimki Picture Gallery was founded in 1992 by Professor Sergei Nikolayevich Gorshin, Dr. of Engineering Sciences, Merited Worker in Science and Technology of the RSFSR, a prominent scientist and citizen living in Khimki. The gallery was founded on the basis of his personal collection of paintings and works of graphic art of the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, which he donated to the city.