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The museums of St.PetersburgSt. Petersburg is called the cultural capital of Russia. There are over hundred museums in the city from the world-famous like Hermitage to the absolutely unknown but interesting and attractive in their own way. Below you can see the most popular and traditional ones, but I m sure that everyone will find here a place or a museum that will perfectly answer his/her interests and preferences.
The State Hermitage is one of the greatest museums in the world. Five historical buildings, including Winter Palace – the residence of Russian tsars, make the basis of the museum complex. The Hermitage keeps about 2,5 million of objects of art of the European and Oriental countries, from high antiquity till nowadays: pictures, graphic sheets, sculptures, a richest collections of applied art items, over a million coins and medals, archeological finds. Among the Hermitage’s treasures there are artworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, famous collection of impressionists and post-impressionists, Matisse, Picasso. Menshikov Palace Occupies the first stone building erected in St. Petersburg, the palace of the first city’s governor A. Menshikov. Inside the building the original fragments of the interiors of the XVIII century have been preserved, among them the famous Dutch tiles. The museum's display describes Russian history and culture in the first third of the 18th century. The State Russian Museum The largest museum of Russian art, opened in 1898 in the Mikhaylovsky Palace. The museum numbers nearly 400 000 exhibits. The largest in the country collection begins with Russian ancient icons and ends with the Avant-guard painting of the XX century The Marble Palace An architectural monument of the middle of the XVIII century. It was a present from Catherine the Great to her favourite Grigory Orlov. Over 30 tints of marble were used for the decoration of the palace, hence the name Marble Palace, which was bestowed by delighted contemporaries. There is a permanent exhibition dedicated to European artists of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries who lived and worked in Russia, and also an exhibition of modern art from abroad.
The castle was constructed to protect the Russian Emperor Paul I form coup d’etat. Ironically, it was here where he was assassinated March 12, 1801. Since 1817 the castle housed an Engineering school, which was attended by many great Russian figures of the past, including F. M. Dostoevsky. During this time the museum is hosting series of lectures and staged productions: "The Secrets of the Mikhailovsky Castle" and "The Imperial Mystic", based on the novels of Dmitry Merezhkovsky. Plays begin at 7.00 p.m (in Russian language). Stroganov Palace The eldest of the palaces under the Russian Museum supervision. During almost 2 centuries it was the property of Stroganov family. It was designed by Rastrelli and built between 1725 and 1754; A. Voronikhin worked on the interior in 1790. Now it is holding temporary exhibitions and featuring a waxworks display entitled "The Imperial Dynasty in Person". Museum of the history of St. Petersburg The museum is in the Peter and Paul Fortress. The Peter and Paul Cathedral, designed by Trezzini, contains the burial vaults of Peter I and other Russian emperors. Other parts of the museum are the Neva Wing and the Commandant's House, where various exhibitions are held. The cells of the Trubetskoy bastion - the main political prison in Tsarist times - are permanently open to visitors. Festival of sand sculpture is held each year on the Peter and Paul Fortress beach (mid-July).
Founded on 27 May (16 May old-style) 1703 to defend St. Petersburg against enemy raids. From the middle of the 18th century it contained Russia's political prison. The complex includes: Peter and Paul Cathedral, designed by D. Trezzini, which is the city's tallest building (the height of the spire is 121.8 meters), the Mint and other buildings. The Ethnographic Museum The exhibitions of the museum illustrate the everyday life and culture of the peoples of Russia in the XIX-XX centuries. The collections of the museum number over half a million exhibits. The cabin of Peter the Great Constructed for Peter the Great in May 1703; the first building of St. Petersburg. The exhibition of the museum contains home utensils of the beginning of the XVIII century including personal belongings of Peter the Great, and describes Russian victories in the Northern War of 1700-1721. State Museum of Russian Political History The only St. Petersburg museum that reflects the country's history as regards the upheavals in society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Peter I's Winter Palace One of St. Petersburg's oldest buildings, now part of the Hermitage; in fact, the museum is located underneath the stage of the Hermitage Theatre. The main inner courtyard and some of the ground-floor rooms have been reconstructed: the studio, study, dining-room and lathe-room have survived since Peter's time. The exhibition features some of his personal belongings. Visits are permitted only with one of the museum's own excursions, commencing every 30 minutes. Yusupov Palace The only mansion of the St. Petersburg nobility with the comfortable fascination created by talented 18th- and 19th-century architects, sculptors and artists from Russia and abroad. It is outstanding not only for its architectural and artistic merits, however, but also for the events that happened there in December 1916, with the murder of Grigory Rasputin. The palace offers guided tours, concerts and other cultural programmes.
Founded in 1932, the museum was located in the Kazan Cathedral until 2000. The display begins with archaic beliefs and the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. The rooms devoted to Judaism, early Christianity and the history of the Russian Orthodox Church are particularly fascinating. New rooms are opening in time for the museum's anniversary: "Christianity in the West".
18th century architectural monument (architect Savva Chevakinsky), the centre of the family estate of the Counts Sheremetyev. Permanent exhibitions: decorative applied art and fine art owned by the Sheremetyevs and private collections acquired by the museum in the 1990s; the St. Petersburg's collection of musical instruments (over 3000 exhibits), including memorial instruments and historical rarities. Concerts of choral, orchestral and chamber music are held in the White Hall.
Located in the historical building of the Stock Exchange, constructed in the beginning of the XIX century. The world’s largest naval museum, one of the oldest Russian museums. The museum numbers over 800 000 items, including “the Grandfather of the Russian Navy” – the old boat of Peter the Great, models of vessels, examples of armaments and military machinery, marine paintings. Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps One of the world’s largest martial museums, located in the building of the old Arsenal. The collection of the museum numbers 750 000 items: examples of armaments, military uniforms, banners, orders, battle relics of the Russian Army. There is also an open air exposition of war machinery and weaponry.
A battleship of the Russian Navy put on eternal mooring. The museum exhibition contains 1000 documents and photographs, recounting the ship's 100-year history, Aurora’s participation in the Tsushima battle of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, as well as its revolutionary activities in the beginning of the XX century and its participation in the World War II, 1941-1945. Kunstcamera (Chamber of Curiosities) Russia's first museum, founded in 1714 on Peter I's order. It contains household items, works of applied art and national costumes from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia and Oceania. An exhibition called Peter I's Anatomic Collection is permanently on show. There is a historical section - "From the History of Peter's Kunstkamera". Museum of Space and Rocket Science The museum's display describes the history of space travel and rocket building, the achievements of Russian and foreign astronauts.
A rich collection of fauna from every continent and climatic zone, amounting to some 30.000 exhibits. Small collection of live insects. Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic A historical and geographical museum - nature in the Arctic and Antarctic, the history of the northern sea route, the culture of the peoples of the far north, the exploration of the Antarctic. Planetarium Astronomy, space travel and science concerning the Earth. Attractions include a display of absorbing experiments, a Foucault pendulum, a weather station and observations through a telescope. There is also a picture gallery and exhibition hall. Alexander Pushkin Apartment Museum The last residence of the Russian poetic genius. This is also the place where he died on January 29, 1837 after a duel. The exhibition displays original books and home utensils, personal belongings of the great poet, the original furnishings Fyodor Dostoevsky Literary Museum Arranged according to the original interior design of the great writer’s last apartment. On display: documents, photographs and personal belongings of the writer. The exhibition outlines writer’s life and work.
Private museum, representing vodka as a Russian cultural phenomenon. Learn the whole truth about the national drink which, like any Russian, could serve both God and the Devil. Visitors are told how vodka first came to be drunk in Russia, why it was called vodka and a great deal more new and fascinating information. The pride of the museum is an apparatus for home-made vodka and numerous glasses used by our ancestors.
The only State bread museum in Russia. Over 17.000 exhibits: various examples of bakery (from ancient times to the present day), tools, utensils, baking moulds, crockery, large selection of samovars, shop signs, documents and collections of cookery books. The display features a reconstruction of a small chandlery and kitchen from the late 19th - early 20th century and a room from the time of the siege of Leningrad. Guided tours by prior arrangement. |
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