museums
In St. Petersburg there are tens museums. In order that to look at all of them the whole life is necessary. The city is is well-known for the main museums - the State Hermitage, the Russian Museum and the Peter and Paul Fortress. There are a lot more special museums on interests: Kustkamera, Ethnographic museum, Gorny museum (The Museum of mining), Zoological museum, Botanical museum, Medical museum, Theatrical museum, Museum of music, Karl Fabergé's Museum, Museum of Hygiene, etc. Also the museums in apartments are interesting where were living great composers, poets, writers, scientists, politicians. In St. Petersburg there are hundreds of magnificent temples, palaces and gardens. Less than for an hour it is possible to reach to Imperial Residences. Of course, we will organize any excursions and private visits for you, write, please, us.
Hermitage
Now, when the State Hermitage received in the property the huge General Staff Building on Palace Square it became again the biggest museum in the world. Very few people know that the complex of the museum includes still the following buildings: The Winter Imperial Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Old Hermitage, the New Hermitage, Hermitage theater, the memorial palace where was died the Emperor Peter the Great, the Menshikovskiy palace, Storage of funds and the Museum of Imperial porcelain factory. The Branches of the museum are in Omsk, Kazan, Vyborg, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Ferrara (Italy). In collections of the Hermitage there are more than 3 000 000 artefacts.
Russian
Museum
The Russian Museum is the second-large museum in Russia and the biggest museum of national art in the world. The old part of the museum in the Mikhailovskiy Palace includes extensive collections of icons, paintings, a sculpture and graphics of the XV-XXI centuries. The Branches of the Russian museum in St. Petersburg are the Mikhailovskiy Castle, the Summer garden and the Summer palace of the Emperor Peter I, the Marble Palace and Ludwig's museum, Stroganov's Palace on Nevsky Prospect.