St. Petersburg Museums

St. Petersburg has a wide range of museums of all kinds: history, art, science, and others more specific.

Sometimes, in addition to touring its galleries admiring the works and objects on display, you can enjoy the exceptional architecture to the buildings of St. Petersburg has accustomed us.

One of the most important and representative of the city and perhaps of all Russia’s Hermitage Museum, which has one of the most abundant museums worldwide.

It is a museum of historical objects, antiquities and paintings. It consists of six buildings located across the river Neva. The most important of these is the famous Winter Palace, which worked in the past as the residence of the Tsars. More than three million pieces, including paintings, objects of ancient art, numismatics, prehistoric art, oriental art are exhibited in it, among other topics.

Among the most famous paintings on display in the museum, we found “The Apostles Peter and Paul” El Greco and two works by Rembrandt: “The Sacrifice of Isaac” and “The Holy Family with Angels.”

There is also the Museum of Russian Art, which boasts the largest collection of art history made in Russia from the beginning and through each historical period. Paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints are included. The collections on display Spread over two buildings.

In the Palace Mijáilovskii is the main collection of classical art, while that to know what was done during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, head to Block Benois.

For its part, the Artillery Museum is a journey through the military history of Russia.

Especially suitable for those who like guns and military history. Objects from all periods are: from weapons from the Stone Age until the armored car Lenin moved from Finland. It has a courtyard with tanks and all kinds of weapons that can be seen without entering the museum.

There are also museums created in the buildings where they developed their lives great artists of Russian history. In the case of “Dostoyevsky Museum” located in the apartment where the great writer lived his last three years. There letters and personal documents, objects that belonged to him and a collection of illustrations made for his works by painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are exhibited.

Also falls into this category the “Pushkin House Museum”, the last home of the artist who left untouched so as with all its objects, library and furniture.

St. Petersburg has a wide range of museums of all kinds: history, art, science, and others more specific.

Sometimes, in addition to touring its galleries admiring the works and objects on display, you can enjoy the exceptional architecture to the buildings of St. Petersburg has accustomed us.

One of the most important and representative of the city and perhaps of all Russia’s Hermitage Museum, which has one of the most abundant museums worldwide.

It is a museum of historical objects, antiquities and paintings. It consists of six buildings located across the river Neva. The most important of these is the famous Winter Palace, which worked in the past as the residence of the Tsars. More than three million pieces, including paintings, objects of ancient art, numismatics, prehistoric art, oriental art are exhibited in it, among other topics.

Among the most famous paintings on display in the museum, we found “The Apostles Peter and Paul” El Greco and two works by Rembrandt: “The Sacrifice of Isaac” and “The Holy Family with Angels.”

There is also the Museum of Russian Art, which boasts the largest collection of art history made in Russia from the beginning and through each historical period. Paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints are included. The collections on display Spread over two buildings.

In the Palace Mijáilovskii is the main collection of classical art, while that to know what was done during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, head to Block Benois.

For its part, the Artillery Museum is a journey through the military history of Russia.

Especially suitable for those who like guns and military history. Objects from all periods are: from weapons from the Stone Age until the armored car Lenin moved from Finland. It has a courtyard with tanks and all kinds of weapons that can be seen without entering the museum.

There are also museums created in the buildings where they developed their lives great artists of Russian history. In the case of “Dostoyevsky Museum” located in the apartment where the great writer lived his last three years. There letters and personal documents, objects that belonged to him and a collection of illustrations made for his works by painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are exhibited.

Also falls into this category the “Pushkin House Museum”, the last home of the artist who left untouched so as with all its objects, library and furniture.