St. Petersburg Museums

(St. Petersburg, North-Western Federal District, Russia)

Amongst the endless selection of museums within St. Petersburg, visitors are treated to everything from Soviet history and steam locomotives, to bread making and historic gramophones. One of the more unusual museums in St. Petersburg is the Kresty (Crosses) Prison Museum on the Arsenal'naia Naberezhnaia, where you can take a guided tour through the historic prison itself, where literally thousands of inmates currently reside.

The Muzei Politicheskoi Istorii Rossii (Museum of Russian Political History) is often of interest and was originally the home of a very famous pre-revolution Russian ballerina. Today, the building houses a range of artefacts from Russia and St. Petersburg's unsettled past, including military uniforms, Bolshevik memorabilia and Communist propaganda. With in excess of 3,000 musical instruments, the Muzei Muzykal'nykh Instrumentov contains many unique exhibits and is located within the Sheremetievskii Palace.


Other appealing museums in St. Petersburg include the Muzei Arktiki i Antarktiki (Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic). Highlights here include information about the many explorers who have ventured into the Arctic region and even includes a life-size model of an aircraft, complete with wooden skis.

One of Russia's biggest natural history museums is the Zoologicheskii Muzei (Zoological Museum) on St. Petersburg's Vasilevskii Island, which was established in the early 1830s and contains around 40,000 specimens of animals from all over the world.

Anna Akhmatova Museum (Muzei Anny Akhmatovy)

Address: Naberezhnaia Reki Fontanki 34, St. Petersburg, RU-191014, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0812 272 5895

Apartment Museum of NA Rimskii Korsakov (Muzei Kvartira NA Rimskogo Korsakova)

Address: Zagorodnii Prospekt 28, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Blok Flat Museum (Muzei Kvartira AA Bloka)

Address: Ulitsa Dekabristov 57, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Bread Museum (Muzei Khleba)

Address: Ligovskii Prospekt 73, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Dolls Museum (Muzei Kukol)

Address: Ulitsa Kamskaia 8, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0812 327 7224

Dostoevskii Flat Museum (Muzei Kvartira FM Dostoevskogo)

Address: Kuznechnii Pereoluk 5, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Freud's Dream Museum (Muzei Snovidenii Sigmunda Freida)

Address: Bolshoi Prospekt 18, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Gramophones Museum

Address: Ulitsa Bolshaia Pushkarskaia 47, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Kirov Museum (Muzei SM Kirova)

Address: Kamenoostrovskii Prospekt 26/28, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Kresty Prison Museum

Address: Arsenal'naia Naberezhnaia 7, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Museum of Ethnography (Etnograficheskii Muzei)

Address: Inzhenernaia Ulitsa 4/1, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Museum of Hygiene (Muzei Gigieny)

Address: Italianskaia Ulitsa 5, St. Petersburg, RU-191011, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0812 311 7033

Museum of Musical Instruments (Muzei Muzykal'nykh Instrumentov)

Address: Naberezhnaia Fontanki 34, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Museum of Russian Political History (Muzei Politicheskoi Istorii Rossii)

Address: Kuibisheva Ulitsa 2/4, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic (Muzei Arktiki i Antarktiki)

Address: Marata Ulitsa 24, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Nabokov Flat Museum (Muzei Kvartira V Nabokova)

Address: Ulitsa Bolshaia Morskaia 47, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Naval Museum (Voenno Morskoi Muzei)

Address: Birzhevaia Ploshchad 2, St. Petersburg, RU-199034, Russia, RU

Nekrasov Flat Museum (Muzei Kvartira NA Nekrasova)

Address: Liteinyi Prospect 36, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Pushkin Flat Museum (Muzei Kvartira AS Pushkina)

Address: Naberezhnaia Reki Moiki 12, St. Petersburg, RU-191186, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0812 571 3531

Railway Museum (Muzei Zheleznodorozhnogo Transporta)

Address: Sadovaia Ulitsa 50, St. Petersburg, Russia, RU

Zoological Museum (Zoologicheskii Muzei)

Address: Universitetskaia Naberezhnaia 1, St. Petersburg, RU-199034, Russia, RU
Tel: +7 0812 328 0112