St. Petersburg: Museums
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The All-Russian Pushkin Museum springs from the first Pushkin Museum established in 1879 in the Emperor Alexander’s Lyceum (formerly Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum) on the initiative of Professors and students of the Lyceum, the poet’s friends and family. read more>
Address: 191186, Saint-Peterburg, Moyka wharf, 12
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St. Isaac’s Cathedral is a unique monument of domestic architecture and one of the best cathedrals of Europe. It is one of the paragons of Russian religious art. read more>
Address: 4, Isaakievskaya Square
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Russian Museum of Ethnography is one of the largest ethnographic museums in Europe. Its funds preserve cultural monuments of 157 peoples of Eurasia (territory of the former Russian Empire).read more>
Tel. (812) 313-4421
Address: 191011, 4/1, Inzhenernaya Str. (nearby the Russian Museum)
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For half a century already a silhouette of the cruiser Aurora has been rising above the Petrogradskaya embankment. The monument of Russian shipbuilding cruiser Aurora saw many events of the contradictory history of the 20th century. read more>
Address: 197046, cruiser Aurora, Petrovsakaya embankment, St. Petersburg
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St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music Arts founded in 1918 is one of the largest theatre museums of the world. Its collection is unique from the viewpoint of historical coverage, diversity and the value of the exhibits.read more>
Tel: (812) 315-5243
Address: 191011, 6, Ostrovskogo Square, St. Petersburg
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Today the collection of the museum counts over 12 thousand paintings, graphics, sculptures, and decorative works of art. The museum traditionally holds exhibitions of glassware.read more>
Tel: (812) 430-00-41, 430-1131, 430-0131
Address: 197110, 4, Yelagin Ostrov, St. Petersburg
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Unique museum of traditional modern art, including works by leading masters of realism of various schools and styles, from the 1910s to the present. read more>
Tel: (812) 466-0460
Address: 40, Magazeynaya Str., Pushkin town, Pushkinsky district of St.Petersburg
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The memorial museum is located in Ioannovsky ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress, where the first Soviet rockets and rocket engines were developed. read more>
Address: 3, Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg
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The exposition highlights the history of submarine shipbuilding and seamen’s’ feats of arms. The museum brings together unique models of diesel and atomic submarines.read more>
Tel: (812) 251-9492, 251-0596, 251-1542
Address: 3, Morskoy Lane, St.Petersburg
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This unique museum is the only one in Russia that tells about the history of circus art.read more>
Address: 3, Fontanka, St. Petersburg
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The only botanic museum in Russia. The rich collections of the museum were gathered by renowned scientists in their journeys. Four expositions can be seen here: ‘Flora of the world’, ‘History and evolution of plants’, ‘Vegetative resources of our motherland’, and ‘Plants and human beings’.read more>
Tel: (812) 234-8439, 234-0673, 234-8470
Address: 2, Prof. Popova Str., St. Petersburg
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The exposition of the palace represents the history of the Sheremetyevs family and ways of life of the noblemen of the 18th – 20th cc. The visitors of the museum can see open funds of the unique collection of music instruments as well as exhibitions of private collections. read more>
Tel: (812) 272-3898, 272-4441
Address: 34, Embankment of Fontanka River, St. Petersburg
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One of the world biggest and most luxurious museums, it hardly needs to be introduced. However, certain advice can be of help: you really should have time on your hands to visit the Hermitage. read more>
Tel: (812) 571-34-65 (information), 571-84-46, 710-90-79 (excursions)
Address: 34, Dvortsovaya Embankment, St. Petersburg
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Rivaling the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Russian Museum is home of national gallery representing most vivid and versatile phenomena of Russian art from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. read more>
Tel: (812) 314-83-68, 595-42-48, 314-34-48
Address: 4, Inzhenernaya Str., St. Petersburg
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Do you want to see curiosities, rarities and archeological finds collected by Peter the Great himself, observe exotic artifacts reflecting diverse traditions of aborigines inhabiting the Old and New World, a thrilling collection of monstrous human fetuses and a unique collection of Russian and foreign scientific instruments from the 13th - 19th centuries?read more>
Tel: (812) 328-07-12
Address: 3, Universitetskaya embankment, entry from Tamozhenny Lane
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Anna Akhmatova Museum at Fountain House (Fontanny Dom) is located in the centre of St. Petersburg, in the Southern wing of the Sheremetev palace, a masterpiece of Russian baroque architecture.read more>
St. Petersburg, 34, Naberezhnaya Fontanki (Fontanka Embankment)
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The literary and memorial museum of Fyodor Dostoyevsky was open in 1971, marking the 150th anniversary of the writer’s birthday. The writer lived the last part of his life in these apartments.read more>
5/2, Kuznechny pereulok
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