Best Museums and Art Galleries in St Petersburg

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You won't want to miss two of the world's great museums while visiting the city, but there are plenty of other smaller but no less fascinating museums to visit too. The contemporary art scene is also developing fast.

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Russian Museum

The Other Great St Petersburg Museum, the Russian Museum is a world-class art institution devoted to the collection, exhibition and study of Russian artistic masterpieces

Russian Museum of Ethnography

If you want to learn more about the history and culture of the peoples who make up the vast expanse of territory of the Russian Federation and its neighbors, then this is

ArtHouse Gallery

Featuring regular exhibitions, this is one of the closest galleries to Palace Square.............

Kunstkamera

The Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is a fascinating if macabre snapshot of early scientific enquiry.....

The State Hermitage Museum

Located in the Tsars' former Winter Palace at the heart of the city, no visit to St Petersburg is complete without spending at least a few hours in the Hermitage, one of

Museum of Arctic and Antarctic

Russia has had a long-standing interest in the polar regions stretching back to Tsarist times. The Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic demonstrates just what is so fascina

Battleship Avrora

A site of pilgrimage during Soviet times, the Avrora's single blank fired at 2140 on the night of 25 October 1917 indicated the start of the Revolution.............

Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art

Set in a former Communist party building on Vasilievsky Ostrov, a visit to Erarta with its playful exhibitions and events program will prove to be an unexpected highlight

Kontrakt Risovalschika Gallery

A small gallery with regular displays of local art.............

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