Art history is rather young science; it appeared in XVIII due to the work of Johann Winckelmann, German antiquarian and historian. As a program of study the art history formed at the turn of XIX-XX. It is a unique profession in some respect. The specialist of art history must feel delicately, at the level of intuition, think and understand, be very attentive, impartial and objective in own opinion and criticism, have a skill to attract attention of people and be in the thick of things. To talk about modern art history education ’s development way we have invited Tamara Galeyeva, Candidate of Art History, the head of the department of history of art at the faculty of art history and culturology of UrFU. Our guest has told us about Ural school of art history formation, what is included in the field of researchers and students’ interest. Talking about the development of modern art, T. Galeyeva has underlined that today Yekaterinburg is one of the most progressive cities of Russia. The city of Perm with its “cultural revolution” or Veliky Novgorod with ancient history can not compete with the capital of the Ural region.