- hermitage Museum
- Russian Museum
- Kunstkamera
- Museum "Grand Model Russia"
- Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps
- Museum of the History of St. Petersburg
Travelers will need more than one day to get around all the most popular museums in St. Petersburg (there are more than 200 museum collections in the city).
In St. Petersburg museums you can see anything you want - the Northern capital of Russia has interesting and diverse institutions. There are both ordinary museums and museum-ships, and palace and park complexes.
hermitage Museum
The museum contains 1,012,657 works of applied and fine arts, 13974 units of weapons, 1,124,919 exhibits of numismatics. A collection of Scythian gold, plates with petroglyphs, works by Correggio, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, Van Dyck, Poussin, Veronese, Titian are subject to inspection.
Russian Museum
Russian Museum
The museum contains about 40,000 exhibits dating back to the 10-21 centuries. So, in the Mikhailovsky Castle (Sadovaya street, 2) you will be able to see the works of Repin, Rublev, Aivazovsky, Bryullov, as well as visit the permanent exhibition of the ceremonial portrait (portraits of monarchs, politicians, generals), and in the Marble Palace (Millionnaya street, 5 / 1) - to see the works of German, English, French masters of the 18-19th centuries, exhibited at the exhibition “Foreign Artists in Russia”. As for the scientific library of the museum, there are 170,000 items in it (there is also a sector with rare books).
Kunstkamera
This museum contains antiques that tell visitors about the life and history of different peoples (Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, Japanese, peoples of Asia and Africa). The Kunstkamera is famous for its collection of “freaks” in the form of anatomical anomalies and rarities (mermaid syndrome, Siamese twins, two-headed lamb). Those who wish are invited to view the expositions “The History of the Kunstkamera Building”, “The First Natural Science Collections of the Kunstkamera”, “The Great Gottorp Globe” and others.
Museum "Grand Model Russia"
Museum guests are given the opportunity to see not only Russian sights in miniature, the Kaliningrad region, the Far East, the Trans-Urals, the Caspian, Siberia and other regions, but also the changing landscapes and scenes from the life of Russians in different parts of the country through a single moving system. Those who wish can leave strollers in a special covered parking lot, and cars in a paid parking lot, visit a cafe, rent binoculars and an audio guide, and a lifting platform is provided for people with disabilities.
Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps
Among the exhibits of the museum, the most interesting are the military awards of the Russian emperors, more than 1200 guns and mortars, a ceremonial chariot on which an artillery banner was taken out, a collection of foreign edged weapons, unique samurai armor, personal weapons of Alexander I, Napoleon, Nicholas II. The museum conducts a sightseeing tour and thematic ("Russian artillery of the 14-19 centuries", "Kutuzov and the Patriotic War of 1812", "Peter the Great and the Northern War" and others) excursions.
Museum of the History of St. Petersburg
Everyone will be able to trace the history of the city on the Neva, from its foundation to the present day, by examining more than 1.3 million exhibits. Visitors are invited to view the following expositions: "The Tsar's Rooms of the Peter and Paul Cathedral"; "Collection of porcelain and glass products of the 18-21 centuries"; "Furniture of the 18-20th centuries" and others.
You can get to the museum (Peter and Paul Fortress) by trams No. 40 and 6, bus No. 46 and minibuses No. 183, 46, 223, 76.
