When the word museum is used, for many people the image of St Petersburg flashes into their mind and for good reason, St Petersburg is one of the worlds great museum cities. Most people have heard of the State Hermitage but there are other museums that would appeal to almost anyones special interests.Below is a list of the major museums in St Petersburg, enough to satisfy any museum hound. There seems to be no complete listing of museums in St Petersburg so we are scanning for what information is available to post regarding the 255 museums in the city and surrounding suburbs. Over time we hope to have a review or detailed information about all these museums.
In the meantime, here is a list of some of the most well known museums together with their web page or address and operating hours. If you have information about any of these or those not listed here please let us know. We are seeking reviews and comments about any museum in St Petersburg.
- Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts)
- Akhmatova Museum (Anna Akhmatova Museum, Fontanny Dom)
- Anna Akhmatova and the Silver Age Municipal Museum 67/4 Prospect Stachek. M: Avtovo
- Anthropology and Ethnography of the World Museum (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography - Kunstkamera)
- Arctic and Antarctic Museum
- Artillery, Engineering and Communication Forces Museum (Alexandrovsky park , #7. Metro: Gorkovskaya. Phone: (812) 238-4704. Opened: 11.00 - 17.00, closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and last Thursdays of the month. s, largest in military museum in the world)
- Aurora Cruiser Petrogradskaya nab. Directions: Gorkovskaya or Ploshchad Lenina metros. Phone: 230-8440. Open: 10.30 - 16.00, closed on Mondays and Fridays.
- Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace 191025, Nevsky Prospekt, 41, phone +7(812)315 4076,fax +7(812)311 1750
- Benois Family Museum
- Alexander Blok Apartment-Museum, 57 Dekabristov Street 4th floor
- Political History Museum 12 Poltavskaya Str., tel. 279-4233 Pl.Vosstaniya
- Bolshoy (Menshikovsky) Palace, Japanese Palace at Lomonosov The Palace-and-Park Ensemble at Oranienbaum tel. 422-3753 Open: 11:00 - 17:00, Mon till 16:00 Closed:TUE and on last MON of every month
- Botanical Museum 2 Ulitsa Professora Popova Tel: 234-17-64 Open: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily except Fridays (Museum of V. Komarov Botany Research Institute)
- Bread Museum 73 Ligovsky prospekt, Phone:+7 (812) 164-1110, +7 (812)164-1359 Open: 10am - 5pm Closed: Sundays and Mondays
- Isaak Brodsky Apartment-Museum; 3 Pl. Iskusstv. M. Nevsky Prospect. Tel 314-3658. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday, Tuesday
- Cabin of Peter the Great
- Peterhof State Museum Catherine's Wing,
- P.P. Chistyakov House Museum Open on WED, SAT, SUN 10.00 - 17.00. 23 Moskovskoe road, Pushkin, tel. 470-7712.
- Chinese Palace at Lomonosov
- Church of Savior on the Spilled Blood
- Circus Museum Date founded: 1928, ul Fontanka 3 191011 St. Petersburg Telephone: +7 (812) 314 8478 fax: +7 (812) 314 8059 Homepage: http://www.circus.spb.ru/ site under construction
- Composers' HouseConservatoire Museum (Museum of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatoire)
- Cottage Museum at Peterhof / Petrodvorets
- Decorative Applied Art Museum (Solyanoi Pereulok 13. Metro: Chernyshevskaya. Open 11:00-17:00 Tuesday to Saturday. Tel: 273 3258)
- Dostoyevsky Memorial Museum-Apartment Open: Tues-Sun 11.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. (except the last Wednesday of each month) Location: Kuznechny per, 5/2. Metro station"Vladimirskaya", "Dostoevskaya"
- Earth Science Museum (V. Dokuchaev Central Museum of Earth Science)
- Ethnography Museum (Russian Ethnographic Museum)
- Gatchina Royal Palace
- Geology Museum (F.N. Chernyshev Central Research Geology Museum)
- Gazodynamicheskaya Laboratory, Museum of Rocket-Building Development.
- Grand Palace, Peterhof State Museum.
- The State Hermitage Museum.
- Hermitage pavilion, Peterhof State Museum
- Historical Museum of Wax Figures, at Lomonosov
- History Museum of the Town of Pushkin
- History of Religion Museum - Kazan Cathedral (St. Petersburg State Museum of the History of Religion)
- Katalnaya Gorka Pavilion, at Lomonosov
- Kavalersky Corpus at Lomonosov
- Kirov Apartment-Museum (Sergei M. Kirov Apartment-Museum, branch of Museum of St. Petersburg History)
- P.K. Kozlov Apartment-Museum
- Kronshtadt Local History MuseumKronverk,
- Kunstkamera
- Wax Figures Museum
- Arkhip Kuindghi Apartment-Museum
- Lenin Apartment-Museum (Vladimir I. Lenin Memorial Museum-Apartment)
- Lenin Memorial Museum in Smolny (Vladimir I. Lenin Memorial Museum)
- Leningrad During the War and Siege Years, branch of the Museum of
St. Petersburg's History - Lyceum (All-Russian Museum of Alexander S. Pushkin, Museum-Lyceum)
- Lomonosovsky China Factory Museum
- Marble Palace, branch of the State Russian Museum 5/1 Millionnaya Str. (Metro station: Nevsky Prospekt). Contact Phone: 312-9196
- Marli Pavilion at Petrodvorets
- Dmitry Mendeleev Museum-Archive at
St. Petersburg State University - Menshikov Palace, and the collection on the Russian Culture of the early eighteenth century, branch of the State Hermitage
- Metrology Museum (Museum of Metrology, Mendeleev Research Institute)
- Mikhailovsky Castle, branch of the State Russian Museum
- Military Medicine Museum (Military-Medical Museum)
- Militia Museum
- Mineralogy Museum of St. Petersburg State University
- Monument to Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
- Museum of the History of Revolutionary-Democratic Movement in 1880s-90s
- Musical Instruments Exhibition, branch of the State Museum of Theater and Musical Art
- Nabokov's House
- Narodovolets, branch of the Central Navy Museum
- Narva Triumphal Arch (Narvskiye Triumphal Gates)
- Navy Museum(Central Navy Museum)
- Nikolai Nekrasov Apartment-Museum
- Oktyabrsky Railroad Central Museum
- Oranienbaum State Museum
- Pavlosk State Museum and Reserve
- Penaty, Ilya E. Repin Museum-Estate
- Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Peter III Palace at Lomonosov
- Peterhof State Museum
- Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetery Museum of the Siege of Leningrad
- Podvodnaya Lodka (Submarine), branch of the Central Navy Museum
- Police History Museum (Gorokhovaya 2, Russian Police History, branch of Russian Political History Museum)
- Political History Museum (Russian Political History Museum)
- Alexander Popov Apartment-Museum
- Press History Museum (Museum of St. Petersburg Press History, 32, Moyka River Emb )
- Pushkin Museum and Memorial Apartment (All-Russian Museum of Alexander S. Pushkin)
- Pushkin Museum-Dacha (Alexander Pushkin Museum-Dacha, Branch of the All-Russian Museum of Alexander Pushkin)
- Pushkin, the Town of, see Tsarskoye Selo
- Pushkinsky Dom, the Literary Museum of Russian Literature Research Institute
- Railway Museum (Central Museum of Railroad Transport)
- Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment-Museum (Nikolai A. Rimsky-Korsakov Museum-Apartment, branch of the Theater and Musical Art Museum)
- Road of Life, State Museum of Leningrad Siege, at Kokkorevo township (Leningrad region)
- State Russian Museum
- Samoilov Family Memorial Apartment, branch of St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Musical Art.
- Shlisselburg-Oreshek Fortress
- Siege of Leningrad Museum
- Smolny Cathedral
- St Isaac's Cathedral
- St Sampson Cathedral
- St. Petersburg City History Museum
- State Ethnographic Museum, at Pushkin
- Alexander Suvorov Memorial Museum
- Sheremetev Palace, branch of the State Museum of Theater and Musical Art
- Stroganov Palace , branch of the State Russian Museum
- Summer Garden and Summer Palace of Peter the Great
- Taras Shevchenko Studio Museum
- Theater and Musical Art Museum (St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Musical Art)
- Tram Terminal # 1 Museum
- Trubetskoy Bastion Prison (in Peter and Paul Fortress)
- Tsarskoselskaya Collection
- Tsarskoye Selo, State Museum
- Urban Sculpture Museum
- Visiting Cards Museum
- Vodka Museum 5 Konnogvardeysky Pr.
- Watches Museum, Petrodvorets Watch and Clock Factory
- Wax Figures Museum (St. Petersburg Historical Museum of Wax Figures)
- Yelagin Palace (Yelaginoostrovsky Palace-Museum)
- Yusupov Palace Open: daily noon to 4.00 p.m. Location: Nab. Moika., 94
- Zoschenko Museum ( Open Tues-Sun 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. (except the last Wed of each month). 4/2 Malaya Konyushennaya Ul. (flat 119, 2nd floor). T: 311 7819. )
- Zoological Museum