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Story about museums of St. Petersburg must begin with the fact that this city birthplace museum Russia. How often, referring to Petersburg, we use the word first, the first time! Everyone knows that the first museum in Russia was Kunstkamera, opened by Peter I in the beginning of XVIII century. And few people are aware that even before that, he founded another museum Model-chamber. Here, collect and store build model ships. This museum as a precursor of the Central Naval Museum, in 1994, noted in its 285 - anniversary. Kunstkamera same is the first public museum of Russia.
XVIII century birth to a number of museums, among them world-famous Hermitage Museum of Art Academy, Artillery Museum, Museum of the Mountain School. But the museum Petersburg has experienced a boom in the XIX century. That is not an exhaustive list of museums established by then: Russian, porcelain products, agricultural, Mineralogichesky, Railway, Botanic, Zoological, Anthropology and Ethnography, Telegraphic. Some of them maintained, and their names, and their collections to the present day. This tradition continues in St. Petersburg and now. In the central district of the city launched an unusual exhibition in the open air museum lamps. The museum was founded in memory of the installation in 1873 the first electric lamp at the Odessa streets of St. Petersburg. Each of the six exhibits is a plate with the historical background.
Only in the city of more than 150 museums. The size of their exhibition spaces allowed to show only 7 9% of which is in the collections. Therefore, almost every museum are satisfied with temporary exhibitions from new revenue or rarely Exhibited exhibits. Such exhibitions open in St. Petersburg each week. In the halls of the museum reads music, were the best performers. That is the life of the city museum today. Most museums have two or one day off a week and a sanitary day in a month. Very rarely it will be a Saturday or Sunday. You can purchase tickets in cash departments of the museum, not later than one hour before closing. Tickets vary for different categories of visitors, to obtain preferential ticket you must submit a relevant document.
STATE HERMITAGE . Palace Embankment., 34. Tel. 110 96 25. Metro Nevsky Prospekt . Open daily, except Mondays, from 10.30 to 18.00, to 17.00 on Sunday. Rates: children and students free of charge, the retired 3000 rubles. Full of EUR 15000. Foreigners 60000 rub. State Hermitage is the largest art and history museum of our country, one of the most significant art collections in the world. Founded in 1764 Hermitage considered when Catherine II was acquired by the first major collection of paintings in Berlin. The exposition of the museum is housed in buildings 5. This Winter Palace (1754 1762's. Architect F. B. Rastrelli), Small Hermitage (1764 1775's., Architects Yuri M. Felten and ZH.B. Wallen-Delamot), Old Hermitage (1771 1787's. Architect Yuri M. Felten), New Hermitage (1842 1851's. Architect L.fon Klenze) Hermitage Theatre (1783 1787's. Architect Dzh.Kvarengi).
Of great interest to visitors enjoyed Golden pantry , which includes made of precious metals and stones monuments different times and peoples of the Scythian and Greek products to the works of jewelry in the early XX. In the room the Hermitage Theater concerts are held, performed opera and ballet performances. If you are not a lot of time and you want to get the most vivid impression from the Hermitage, it must not fail to see the following:
The state halls the second floor of the Winter Palace and the Small Hermitage.
PALACE A. D. MENSHIKOVA . Universitetskaya nab., 15. Tel. 215 11 12. Metro Nevsky Prospekt, Vasileostrovskaya . Open daily, except Mondays, from 10.30 to 16.30. Rates: children rub 2000. Full of 4000 rubles. Foreigners 25000 rub., Foreign students rub 5000. A. D. Menshikov Palace of the first governor of St. Petersburg Museum of Russian culture in the first third XVIII. The palace was built in 1710 1714's. architects D. M. Fontana and GI Shedelem). Here were the first in St. Petersburg ceremonial receptions and festivities. The museum opened in 1981 after restoration work. The exhibition included works of art, objects of everyday life Peter the Great's era from the Hermitage. The unusually interesting interiors, fully decorated tile Dutch tiles.
RUSSIAN STATE MUSEUM. Engineering, 4 / 2. Tel. 314 41 53. Metro Nevsky Prospekt . Open daily except Tuesday, from 10.00 to 18.00, on Monday to 17.00. Rates: children rub 2000. Students rub 4000. Full of 8000 rubles. Foreigners 48000 rub., 24000 foreign students rub. The first state art museum in Russia, the largest repository of Russian art is located in the building Mikhailovsky Palace (1819 1825's. Architect Carlo Rossi). The museum was founded in 1895 by Emperor Alexander III as a historical and archaeological museum and the public. Old Russian art is represented icons XII XVII centuries., Among them works by Andrei Rublev, Dionysius, Simon Ushakov. A large collection of works of artists-peredvizhnikov and such outstanding Russian painters like Repin, Vrubel, Bakst, Benoit, Serov, etc. In Russian Museum of Art exhibition opened late XIX in early XX. with works Filonova, Petrov-Vodkin and other masters.
MIHAYLOVSKY (ENGINEERING) CASTLE. garden, 2. Tel. 210 41 73. Metro Gostiny Dvor . Open daily except Tuesday, from 10.00 to 18.00, on Monday to 17.00. Rates: children rub 2000. Students rub 4000. Full of 8000 rubles. Foreigners 48000 rub., 24000 foreign students rub. Mikhailovsky Castle, built in 1797 1800's. one of the most romantic places Petersburg. In creating the building itself participated Paul I and architects VI Bazhenov, VF Brenna. The latter can be seen shown in a picturesque canopy with a plan in the hands of the Mikhailovsky Castle. Mikhailovsky Castle was not long imperial palace. Here on the night of March 12, 1801 conspirators was killed Emperor Paul I. In the future, building owners often changed. In 1991, Castle assigned to the State Russian Museum.
MARBLE PALACE . Millionnaya 5 / 1. Tel. 312 91 96. Metro Nevsky Prospekt . Open daily except Tuesday, from 10.00 to 17.00, on Monday to 16.00. Rates: children rub 2000., Students and pensioners 4000 rubles. Foreigners 48000 rub., 24000 foreign students rub. Marble Palace (1768 1785's. Architect A. Rinaldi). Got its name from a rare Petersburg lining for more than 30 kinds of marble. In 1937, in the Marble Palace opened the Leningrad branch of the Central Museum of V. I. Lenin. In 1991 the building was transferred to the Marble Palace Russian Museum. In those years there was opened exhibition Russian front portrait. In square stands a monument to Alexander III sculptor P. Trubetskogo.
STROGANOVSKY PALACE . Nevsky Prospekt., 17. Tel. 311 82 38. Metro Nevsky Prospekt . Open daily except Tuesday, from 10.00 to 18.00 (ticket office to 17.00). Rates: children from 12 years and students rub 1500. Full of 5000 rubles. Foreigners 35000 rub., 17500 foreign students rub., Art students of universities for free. Stroganov Palace (1752 1754's. Architect F. B. Rastrelli) outstanding monument of Russian Baroque architecture. In XVIII century. master of the palace was A. S. Stroganov, president of the Academy of Arts. For many years the palace was occupied Scientific Institute. Russian became the owner of the Palace Museum in 1991
MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS. Universitetskaya nab., 17. Tel. 213 64 96, 213 35 78 (tours). Metro Vasileostrovskaya. Open daily except Mondays and Tuesdays, from 11.00 to 18.00. Rates: children and students rub 2000. Foreigners 30000 rub., 15000 foreign students rub. Tours for schoolchildren 30000 rub., 50000 rubles for adults. Foreigners 100000 rub. The museum was founded in conjunction with the Academy of Arts in three notably in 1757 and is the oldest art museum in Russia. The museum occupies halls so-called tsirkulya round in Central Corps Academy of Arts building. Now they have collected works of Russian artists from the middle of the XVIII century. and up to now. The museum has a collection of 32 models of monuments, a large number of training and diploma.
ALEKSANDRO-NEVSKAYA LAVRA MUSEUM AND MUNICIPAL SKULPTURY . Nevsky Prospekt., 179 / 2 A. Tel. 274 26 35. Metro Area Alexander Nevsky . Open daily, except Thursdays, from 11.00 to 19.00 (summer), from 11.00 to 16.00 (winter). Rates: children rub 1300. Students rub 2000. Full of 4000 rubles., Foreigners 8000 rubles., Foreign students rub 4000. This St. Petersburg museum only in our country Museum sculptural decoration of the city, including artistic and historical cemeteries tombstones. The museum, located on the territory of Alexander Nevsky Monastery, was founded in 1936 1937's. Since 1947, Necropolis laurels open to visitors. At the cemetery buried Lazarevskom sister Natalia Petra I Alekseevnu. In Lazarevskoy church-shrine rest Russian government officials in the XVIII., Including the ancestor of Alexander Pushkin IA Hannibal. In the necropolis is also the tomb of Lomonosov. At the cemetery Tikhvinsky masters of art created necropolis (XIX XX in the first half.). Here are buried: P. I. Tchaikovsky, MI Petipa, MP Mussorgsky, IA Krylov, FMDostoevskiy, VF Komissarzhevskaya and others. Annunciation Church (1717 1722's.) Oldest construction Alexander Nevsky Monastery. It is the tomb of AV Suvorov.
MUSEUM-NEKROPOL LITERATORSKIE MOSTKI . Rasstal, 30. Tel. 166 23 83. Metro Ligovsky Prospect . Open daily, except Thursdays, from 10.00 to 19.00. From 1 April to 9 May closed at dry. Fees: free entrance, tour 30000 rub. Part Volkov cemetery called Literatorskimi walkways. Here rest I. S. Turgenev, M.E.Saltykov-Shchedrin, AI Kuprin, AA Block, F. O. Berggolts. Here are the graves of public figures, narodovoltsev, revolutionaries G. Plekhanov, family members Ulyanovyh, scientists DI Mendeleev, Ivan Pavlov, Bekhterev VM, artists NP Akimov, LN Benoit, A. J. Vaganova, K.S.Petrova-Vodkin.
MUSEUM-PAMYATNIK NARVSKIE TRIUMFALNYE GATES . Area Stachek, 1. Tel. 186 97 82 . The museum is temporarily closed. Museum exhibition devoted to Russian arms victories in the Patriotic War of 1812 and is located directly in Narvskih triumphant gates, erected in 1827 1834's., Designed by architect VP Stasova. The museum-monument can be found with an exhibition reflecting the main events Patriotic War of 1812, and materials on the history of creation themselves Narvskih triumphant gates and other facilities triumphant Petersburg.
MUSEUM-PAMYATNIK ISAAKIEVSKY ST . Isaakievskaya Square. Tel. 315 97 32. Metro Gostiny Dvor . Open daily except Wednesday, from 11.00 to 18.00, colonnade to 17.00. Rates: children and students rub 2000. Full of 8000 rubles. (4000 colonnade rub.); foreigners 45000 rub. (colonnade 22500 rub.) 17000 foreign students rub. (5500 colonnade rub.). St. Isaac's Cathedral memorial religious architecture in the XIX. and history and art museum. It was the main cathedral of Saint Petersburg, built in 1818 1858's. Project O. Montferrand. The cathedral is interesting not only architectural and engineering decisions associated with the installation of monolithic columns (each weighing 100 tons), and construction of one of the world's largest dome (diameter dome is 21.8 meters). In the interiors of St. Isaac's Cathedral applied a variety of breeds of coloured stone: porphyry, malachite, lapis lazuli, different types of marble. Visitors to the museum have the opportunity to drum colonnade under the dome of a cathedral (from a height of 43 m) to admire the panorama of St. Petersburg. Stairs leading to the colonnade, is located right of the entrance to the cathedral.
MUSEUM-PAMYATNIK SPAS IN BLOOD . Nab. Griboedova Canal, 2 - A. Tel. 314 40 53. Metro Nevsky Prospekt . Christ Church of the Resurrection, more commonly known as Spas in blood, was built in 1883 1907's. on the spot to assassinate the Emperor Alexander II. The church in a purely Russian style built on the draft archimandrite Ignatius (IV Malyshev) and architect AA Parlanda. The temple is a museum of Russian mosaic art from the late XIX in early XX. The total area of the church mosaics resurrection of Christ more than 7000 kv.mv. In 1970 he began restoration work, which continues today. Curiously, the Academy of Arts in workshops survived smalt, which used to finish at the beginning of the century. Thus, only 1 1.5 sq.m. met again made smalt, as it will not be preserved in a sufficient number of the desired color.
In front of the cathedral sacristy opened exhibition Emperor Alexander II. Tel. 314 34 58 . Open from 11.00 to 18.00. Open seven days a week. Rates: children from 12 years and students rub 5000. Full of EUR 10000. Foreigners 35000 rub. Materials provided for the exhibition of their collections 12 museums of St. Petersburg, part of exhibits visitors see first.
MUSEUM-PAMYATNIK SAMPSONIEVSKY ST. Sampsonievskiy Grand Ave., 41. Tel. 543 33 77. Metro Vyborgskaya. closed for restoration. Sampsonievskiy Cathedral one of the oldest buildings of the city (1728 1740's.). He was laid to commemorate the victory of Poltava, who had gained over the Swedes on June 27, 1709 in St. Sampsoniya Strastopriimtsa day. Nearby were the first historically known Sampsonievskoe Petersburg cemetery where famous architects were buried D. Trezzini, AF Kokorinov, P. M. Eropkin and others inside the cathedral survived five-carved wooden iconostasis. Painting relates to the iconostasis 1720 1760's. Since 1984 he has kept in the cathedral restoration work.
Near the cathedral is a monument to the First builders Petersburg painter M. Shemyakin.
MUSEUM-PRIKLADNOGO DECORATIVE ARTS ACADEMY OF INDUSTRIAL HUDOZHESTVENNO-. Salt Lane, 15. Tel. 273 32 58. Metro Chernyshevskaya . Open daily, except Sundays and Mondays, from 11.00 to 17.00. Rates: children and students rub 1000. (up to 7 years free), the full 2000 rubles. foreigners 10000 rub., foreign students rub 5000. One of the interesting art museums of St. Petersburg. The museum was founded in 1878, the Central School of Technical Drawing L. A. Baron Stieglitz. The building was constructed in 1885 1895 till the first project director of the College architect M. E. Mesmahera. Most of the museum's collections after the October Revolution was transferred to the Hermitage, where she is now. The exhibition houses a museum on the first floor of the building. Here you can see the artistic furniture, porcelain, metal, ceramics, fabrics, glass, costume XVI beginning of the XX century. The museum exhibitions like the interesting pieces of semiprecious stones.
MUSEUM LOMONOSOVSKOGO FARFOROVOGO FACTORY . Ave. Obuhov Defense, 151. Tel. 560 83 00. Metro Lomonosovskaya. On working days from 9.00 to 17.00. Excursions to order. Museum of the History of Russian porcelain was founded in in 1844 when the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg. Museum has a collection of valuable porcelain from the first samples of domestic porcelain created DI Vinogradov, to contemporary products are in great demand.
PALACE MUSEUM OF CREATIVITY YUNYH . Nevsky Prospekt., 39/31. Tel. 310 43 95. Metro Gostiny Dvor . Every day. Tours by reservation. Rates: children rub 3000. Students rub 4000. Full of 8000 rubles. Foreigners 15000 rub. Museum of children's art created in 1991 as a public organization, on the initiative of the creative intelligentsia Petersburg. In his meeting presented visual and musical creativity of children. At the initiative of museum exhibitions, festivals, concerts in St. Petersburg as well as outside it. The museum is located in the Anichkov Palace.
SUMMER GARDEN AND PALACE MUSEUM-PETRA I . Summer garden. Tel. 314 03 74. 314 04 56 (palace). Metro Nevsky Prospekt . Open daily except Tuesday, from 10.00 to 17.00. Last month, sanitary day Monday. Fees for visiting the palace: the children rub 2000. Students rub 3000. Full of 5000 rubles. Foreigners 20000 rub., 10000 foreign students rub. Ensemble Summer Garden and the Palace of Peter I monument of Russian culture in XVII. Palace of Peter I became a museum in 1925 It was built in 1710 1712's. D. Trezzini project. Save and finish, and some personal belongings of Peter I and Catherine I.
Summer Garden was founded in 1704 in its creation participated in many famous architects and even Peter I.