Cabinet of curiosities or Cabinet of rarities
St. Petersburg, nab. Universitetskaya, 3 Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (otherwise Kunstkamera) is one of the largest museums of this kind. Its collection is an exposition on the culture and way of life of the peoples of the world, but most of all it is famous for its collection of "freaks" - anatomical rarities and anomalies.
Museum of the History of St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, Peter and Paul Fortress, 10 Museums of St. Petersburg
In the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg you can get a closer look at the history of the founding of the city, stroll through the halls of the Commandant's House - an exposition devoted to the history of the Neva region from ancient times and the history of St. Petersburg from the moment and its foundation until 1918.
Hermitage Museums of St. Petersburg
The State Hermitage is the pride of Russia, the largest cultural and historical museum in the country, occupying 6 historical buildings. Today, the Hermitage has collected almost 3 million exhibits, including works of painting, graphics, sculptures, objects of applied art, a collection of numismatics and archeological monuments. VL Komarova
St. Petersburg, ul. Professor Popov, etc. The only botanical museum in the country is on the territory of the Botanical Garden. The museum collection includes the richest botanical collections collected by famous travel scientists NM Przhevalsky, PK Kozlov, GN Potanin, VI Roborovsky, VL Komarov and others.
All-Russian Museum A.S. Pushkin in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, nab. R. 12 The oldest Pushkin Museum of Russia has its history since 1879. To date, the richest collections are stored here: iconographic, memorial, pictorial, historical and everyday materials of the Pushkin era, as well as paintings, drawings and sculptures of masters of the 19th and 20th centuries.
State Russian Museum
St. Petersburg, ul. . Engineering, etc. 4 The Russian Museum is the largest collection of Russian art in the world. Currently, the collection of the museum has more than 320 thousand exhibits, representing the national art from the XI century. to our days.
Palace of Counts Sheremetev
St. Petersburg, nab. R. Fontanka, 34 Sheremetevsky Palace - Museum of Music, also called "Fountain House" at the place of its location on the territory of the former estate of Count Sheremetev "Fountain House". The land along the Fontanka River (Bezymyannyy Yerik) was granted to Peter I by the Field Marshal, Count BP Sheremetev in 1712
Menshikov Palace
St. Petersburg, nab. Universitetskaya, 15 Menshikov Palace on Vasilievsky Island (1710-1727) - the first of a series of palaces built for high dignitaries - "chicks of the nest of Petrova". Above him worked the best architects, including Trezzini and Rastrelli, Sr.. Menshikov constantly demanded changes, so the construction was delayed until the reference.
Peter I's house
St. Petersburg, nab. Petrovskaya, etc. Peter the Great's house is the only building preserved from the first days of Petersburg. It was built by soldiers-carpenters for three days, served as the first residence of the king on the banks of the Neva. In the study, the dining room and the bedroom of the Lodge are genuine things belonging to Peter I.
Shalyapin House Museum
St. Petersburg, ul. Graftio, etc. 2b The exposition of Shalyapin House-Museum consists of two parts. One of them is a memorial, dedicated to the life and work of an opera artist. Among the richest materials are the libretto and sheeted autographs of operas, sketches of scenery and costumes, documentary photographs, original theater costumes.
Yelagin Palace
St. Petersburg, about. Elagin, d. 1 Yelagin Palace was rebuilt in 1818-1822. for the widow of Paul I - the empress Maria Feodorovna - the architect of Russia. During the war, it was destroyed by the direct hit of a German bomb, and then it was restored and turned into a museum.
Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences
St. Petersburg, nab. Universitetskaya, d. 1The history of the collections of the Zoological Museum dates back to the history of the first national museum - the Kunstkamera, founded in 1714. From Moscow, the natural history collections that Peter I purchased during his trip to Holland were transported.
Cruiser Aurora"
St. Petersburg, nab. PetrovskayaOne of the first museum ships in St. Petersburg was the cruiser "Aurora", who was Russia's defender in two wars - in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and in the First World War of 1914-1918, in which he participated in the brigade cruisers of the Baltic Fleet.
The icebreaker "Krasin"
St. Petersburg, nab. Lieutenant Schmidt, line 23The Krasin icebreaker (originally called the Svyatogor icebreaker), built in 1916, was conceived as the most powerful Russian Arctic icebreaker and was for a couple of years in military service, but was soon flooded.
Literary bridges
St. Petersburg, st. Rasstannaya, d. 30Volkovo cemetery - the burial place of writers, scientists, government and public figures. On the "Literary Bridge" rest: Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Alexander Kuprin, Alexander Block, etc.
Mint in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, Peter and Paul Fortress, 6The Mint was founded by the decree of Peter I in 1724, which punished "a gold coin to make in the fortress." So to this day, this decree is not violated - the Mint is located within the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Celebrating the 175th anniversary, the enterprise issued a commemorative medal with the inscription: "Founded by the order of Emperor Peter I in 1724."
Anna Akhmatova Museum
St. Petersburg, nab. R. Fontanka, d. 34The Anna Akhmatova Museum is located in the center of St. Petersburg, in the wing of the Sheremetev Palace, one of the most beautiful mansions of the 18th century. There are little-known portraits and photographs of the poetess and her contemporaries, rare editions associated with her name, unique autographs of poets of the "silver" age.
Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic
St. Petersburg, st. Marata, 24aThe Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic was opened to visitors on January 8, 1937, but the decision to create it was made much earlier. Already in the 1920s, in connection with the active exploration of the Arctic, many prominent polar explorers and scientists came forward with proposals for the organization of the polar museum.
Museum-archive of D. Mendeleev
St. Petersburg, Mendeleevskaya line, 2Museum-archive of D. I. Mendeleyev was founded in 1911 in the premises of a university apartment, which in 1866-1890. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, professor and head of the chemistry department. The memorial apartment is on the lower floor of the building of the Twelve Colleges, which has been occupied by St. Petersburg State University since 1835.
Museum of Water
St. Petersburg, st. Shpalernaya, 56"The Universe of Water" is an unusual museum complex, opened in St. Petersburg on the initiative of SUE "Vodokanal". Currently, this complex is on a par with the best European museums, where they have long understood that excursions should be interactive, and the exhibits are available for consideration and even feeling.
The fact that St. Petersburg is a city of museums is shown most eloquently ... his map .There is hardly a street in the historical center, unable to boast at least one museum .In total, there are more than two hundred museum collections in St. Petersburg - which means that if you visit one exhibition every day (so be it, resting on weekends and holidays), it will take almost a year to bypass the entire museum treasure of the city! And what is most pleasant - the amount here is not at all to the detriment of quality! After all, the museums of St. Petersburg - one of the most interesting and diverse on the subject in the world: from museum ships to palace and park complexes of several hundred hectares .They can see everything that civilization has just managed to notice: the Egyptian mummies and the glass man, icon painting and pop art, rifles and brassieres, plague and goat with gilded twisted legs .
One of the most famous museums not only in the city, but also in the whole world - the Kunstkamera ("The Cabinet of Rarities") .It is also the oldest Russian museum and one of the largest museums of its kind .Many of its expositions describe the cultural characteristics of different countries and peoples of the world, still there are collections of anthropological exhibits, including the skulls of representatives of different peoples, and many items found during archeological expeditions .But the most popular exhibition is a collection of exhibits with pronounced anomalies, alcoholized "freaks" with a wide variety of deviations that leave an indelible impression in everyone's memory .
Very rich in St. Petersburg museums with historical themes .There are such important museums that tell about the history of the great country, such as the Russian Ethnographic Museum, the State Museum of Political History of Russia, the State Memorial Museum A .AT.Suvorov, the State Memorial Museum of Defense and the Siege of Leningrad, the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg (the Historical and Cultural Reserve "Peter and Paul Fortress"), the All-Russian Museum A .FROM.Pushkin ... There are many such museums, and it is absolutely impossible to visit them not only for a short vacation, but also for a long journey .
A lot of famous talented people somehow connected their destiny with St. Petersburg, leaving eternal traces in the history of this beautiful city and remembrance of themselves in the numerous museum-apartments that still exist in his houses .In such apartments time has stopped for years and centuries, keeping for connoisseurs many items that their former owners touched with their hands, among which passed their lives .Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, Block Museum-Apartment, Nekrasov Museum Apartment, Dostoevsky Museum, Ilya Repin Museum, Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov Museum Apartment, Museum-archive D .AND.Mendeleyev Museum-Apartment And .AND.Brodsky, Museum-flat F .AND.Chaliapin - these and other wonderful museums store the impressions of the life of Russia's talented people .
Of course, it is impossible to imagine the northern capital without visiting art museums .There is also a huge Russian museum with wide halls and corridors, in which an amazing collection of works of art by Russian masters from the 11th century to the present day is exposed .And, of course, the largest in Russia cultural and historical museum - the State Hermitage, in the collection of which about 3 million exhibits, including paintings, graphics, sculptures, objects of applied art, numismatics and archaeological excavations .In addition to these two museums of art, the State Museum of Urban Sculpture and the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts are of great interest .
Whatever you expect from St. Petersburg, no matter how much you read about museums and galleries, streets, canals, bridges, palaces, communal gardens, wells-wells, everything is nothing compared to a personal acquaintance with this delightful city.