Major St Petersburg Museums
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The State Hermitage Museum
The most famous museum of St Petersburg is a
home to the outstanding collection of art and artefacts
of the world culture. Explore all the buildings of the
museum complex with their superb exhibitions.
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The Russian Museum
The first state museum of the Russian art has a huge
collection contains about 400 000 pieces of the
Russian art from icons and Old Russian applied art to
modern works. You will need a whole day to visit all
the buildings of the museum complex.
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The Peter and Paul Fortress
This is the place Saint Petersburg started from. The
fortress was built to protect the city from Swedish
attacks, but it was never used for it. Now it is the
museum complex telling a 300-year history of the city.
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Kunstkammer
The purpose of the museum founded by Peter the
Great was collect natural and human curiosities and
rarities. Now its exhibition halls contain a large variety
of pieces on the culture and life of different part of our
planet.
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The Russian Museum of Ethnography
See more than 500 000 pieces and photographs on
the traditional culture of people of Russia and
neighbouring countries of Eastern Europe,
Caucasus and Central Asia. Take a look at the most
valuable pieces of the collection in the Treasure
Room.
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The National Pushkin Museum
The famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin spent in
this house his last days and hours. Here is the chance
to see his apartments as they were in 1837. The
Museum also holds tens of thousands of works of art
connected with Pushkin's life, work and epoch.
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The Cruiser Aurora
Visit the ship that is the symbol of the October
Revolution. It became famous by a blank shot made
from the ship's guns as a signal for the start of the
assault on the Winter Palace in October 1917.
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The Arctic and Antarctic Museum
Is there life near the North Pole and South Pole?
How was the Northern Sea Route developed?
Come to the Arctic and Antarctic museum to know it.
See also the collection of the everyday life articles of
people living in the Russian North.
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The Museum of the Political History of
Russia
The collection of the museum includes the artefacts
of the history of the political life in Russia since
Ekaterina II till the present time. The main body of
the collection is connected with the Great October
Revolution.
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The Central Naval Museum
Ships, arms, flags, ship drawings, photo- and other
documents about the Russian Fleet - all that you will
find in the Central Naval Museum located in the Old
Stock Exchange building on Vasilievsky Island.
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