List of museums in Saint Petersburg

Biographical museums

Writers

Anna Akhmatova museums

• Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum
• Anna Akhmatova. The Silver Age

  Alexander Pushkin museums

• National Pushkin Museum - of Alexander Pushkin, with branches:
• *Derzhavin Museum - of Gavrila Derzhavin
• *Nekrasov Apartment Museum - of Nikolay Nekrasov, with Ivan Panaev memorial study
• The Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum Museum

  Other writers

• Derzhavin Museum - of Gavrila Derzhavin
• Dostoevsky Museum
• Joseph Brodsky - two locations: branch of Anna Akhmatova Museum and Brodsky's apartment in St. Petersburg
• Mikhail Zoshchenko's apartment
• Nabokov House

  Literary characters

• Ostap Bender

  Artists

• Arkhip Kuindzhi - a branch of Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum
• Ilya Repin - a branch of Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum
• Isaak Brodsky - a branch of Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum

  Scientists/scholars

• Dmitry Mendeleev's Memorial Museum Apartment
• Ivan Pavlov's memorial apartment - in Academician's Home at 1, Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment
• Lev Gumilev - branch of Anna Akhmatova Museum
• Mikhail Lomonosov museum - a department of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in the building of Kunstkamera

  Musicians

Classical

• Feodor Chaliapin Apartment and Museum - a branch of the St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
• Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment and Museum - a branch of the St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music

  Rock

• John Lennon Love, Peace and Music Temple - at 10, Pushkinskaya street squat
• Kamchatka - of Viktor Tsoi

  Actors

• The Samoilov Actors' Family Museum - a branch of the St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music

  Politicians, statesmen's and military leaders'

• The State Museum of the Political History of Russia - with several branches

  Pre-1917

• Admiral Stepan Makarov's Memorial Study - at Gidropribor production facility in Saint Petersburg
• Cabin of Peter the Great
• Plekhanov House
• Stroganov Palace
• Suvorov Museum
• Winter Palace of Peter the Great
• Yusupov Palace on the Moika

  Soviet politicians

Lenin museums

• Raznochinniy Petersburg
• The State Historical and Memorial Museum of Smolny - in the building occupied since the 1920s by the city government; previously of the former Smolny Institute next to Smolny Convent. In early 21st century it shows 1) the history of the pre-1917 institute the history of 1917 October Revolution and the time the building was occupied until the spring of 1918 by the first Soviet Government led by Vladimir Lenin which later moved to Moscow, including Lenin's apartment/study, 3) later Soviet period. The museum has branches, partly left after the closing in early 1990s of the city's branched subsidiary of National Lenin Museum:
• *the Yelizarov family memorial apartment near ulitsa Lenina in Petrogradsky district ;
• *the Alliluyev family memorial apartment in 10th Sovietskaya ulitsa..

  Kirov museum

• Sergei Kirov Memorial Apartment Museum

  Post-1988 public figures

• Anatoly Sobchak Museum of the Foundation of Democracy in Modern Russia

  Fine arts museums and galleries

• Russian Museum
• *Benois Wing
• *Marble Palace
• *Mikhailovsky Castle
• *Mikhailovsky Palace
• *Stroganov Palace
• Fabergé Museum
• Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art
• Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum
• The State Hermitage Museum
• *General Staff Building's East Wing
• *Hermitage Theatre
• *Menshikov Palace
• *Military Gallery
• *Museum of Porcelain
• *New Hermitage
• *Old Hermitage
• *Storage Facility of the State Hermitage
• *Winter Palace of Peter the Great
• Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts

  Local history museums

• Narva Triumphal Gate
• Peter and Paul Fortress – home of The State Museum of the History of St. Peterburg
• State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg

  Science and natural history museums

Science museums

• Arctic and Antarctic Museum
• Kunstkamera - originally, Chamber of Curiosities; officially, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
• The Museum of Hygiene at the St. Petersburg City Center of Preventive Medicine at Count Shuvalov Palace
• Museum of Military Medicine
• Museum of Optical Technologies
• Pulkovo Observatory - officially, the Main Astronomical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences
• Umnikum - a popular science museum for kids
• The Universe of Water

  Natural history museums

• Arctic and Antarctic Museum
• Kunstkamera
• Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden of Komarov Botanical Institute
• Zoological Collection of the Russian Academy of Science

  Transport museums

Automobiles and motorcycles

• Horsepower Museum of vintage automobiles and motorcycles

  Aviation museums

• Civil Aviation Museum of Civil Aviation Academy

  Rail museums

• Central Museum of Railway Transport
• Museum of Electrical Transport - at otherwise nearly disused Vasileostrovsky tram depot
• Oktyabrskaya Railway Museum - at disused Varshavsky Rail Terminal

  Maritime museums

• Aleksandr Marinesko Museum of Russian Submarine Forces - at 83, Kondratiyeskiy prospekt
• С-189 diesel submarine, a Whiskey class submarine - moored off Lieutenant Shmidt Embankment, Vasilyevsky Island
• Central Naval Museum
• *D-2 Narodovolets Submarine — at 10 Shkipersky Protok, Vasilyevsky Island; launched 1994; branch of Central Naval Museum
• Krasin
• Museum of Submarine Armaments and Admiral Stepan Makarov's Memorial Study at Gidropribor production facility in Saint Petersburg
• Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns - former territory of the city's commercial port with lighthouses, goods storage houses, stock exchange
• Russian battleship cruiser Aurora
• Shtandart, a replica of an 18th-century yacht of tsar Peter the Great

  Theatre, music and circus museums

• Alexandrinsky Theatre Endowment Museum of Russian Drama
• "... and Muses never stopped" - a school museum dedicated to art and music in the besieged city during the World War II.
• Circus Art Museum - at the working first Saint Petersburg circus Ciniselli Circus
• Gramophone and Samovar Museums - of clown Vladimir
• St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music, with its branches:
• *Feodor Chaliapin Apartment and Museum
• *The Museum of Music and Music Instruments at the Count Sheremetev Palace
• *Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment and Museum
• *The Samoilov Actors' Family Museum

  War and military museums

• First World War I museum - in Tsarskoe Selo; located in the recently restored Martial Chamber; features vehicles, military paraphernalia, documents, and even gas masks used for animals
• General Staff Building
• Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg - now not a museum as such, but itself a monument to the victory in 1812 Napoleonic War, containing remains of the victorious Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov
• Military Gallery of the Winter Palace
• Museum of Military Medicine
• Narva Triumphal Gate
• Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery - as well as St Seraphim of Sarov's Memorial Cemetery and a number of other memorial cemeteries
• Saint Michael's Castle
• Suvorov Museum

  Museum parks and gardens

• Gatchina
• Oranienbaum – now a branch of Peterhof museum
• Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg
• Peterhof Palace – and many other museums and parks with fountains in Petergof
• Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden
• Summer Garden
• Tsarskoye Selo in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg

  Museums for children

• The Children's Center of Historical Education "Bolotnaya Street 13" - a branch of The State Museum of Political History
• Children's City Anichkov Palace Krestovskiy Island Bio-Eco Labs
• LabirintUm - a popular science museum for kids
• Leningrad Zoo
• Saint Petersburg Dolls Museum
• Saint Petersburg Toy Museum
• Umnikum - a popular science museum for kids
• The Universe of Water

  Philosophical museums

• Nicholas Roerich Museum-Institute
• Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams

  Religious museums and museum places of worship

• State Museum of the History of Religion

  Christian

Russian Orthodox

• Kazan Cathedral, now not a museum as such, but formerly housing Museum of Religion and Atheism ; designed by Andrey Voronikhin, the cathedral resembles Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica and is a monument to Russia's victory in Napoleonic Wars of 1812-14
• Saint Isaac's Cathedral - designed by Auguste de Montferrand; museum and its other branches :
• *Church of the Savior on Blood - built to mark the place where the liberally reforming Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated on March 1, 1881 by People's Will terrorists
• *Saint Sampson the Hospitable's Cathedral - a 1730s monument to Russia's victory in the decisive Battle of Poltava in the Great Northern War over the Swedish Empire;the church grounds became the city's first interdenominational cemetery where many of St Petersburg's famous international architects were laid to rest, as well as the executed conspirators of the Volynski Plot
• *Smolny Cathedral of Smolny Convent - features sky-blue Antonio Rastrelli's Baroque masterwork

  Buddhist

Former museums

• Kazan Cathedral – now not a museum, but formerly housing Museum of Religion and Atheism

  Food and drinks industry museums

• Beer Brewing Museum at Baltica Brewery
• Beer Brewing Museum at Stepan Razin Brewery - now a member of the Heineken group
• Bread Museum
• Russian Vodka Museum

  Private museums

• Horsepower Museum - vintage automobiles and motorcycles
• Gramophone and Samovar Museums - of clown Vladimir

  Suburban museums (royal country residences of palaces and parks)

• Gatchina
• Oranienbaum, now a branch of Peterhof museum
• Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg
• Peterhof Palace, many other museums and parks with fountains in Petergof
• Tsarskoye Selo in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg