:: The State Hermitage Museum ::

The State Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings situated along the embankment of the River Neva, right in the heart of St Petersburg.

Put together throughout two centuries and a half, the Hermitage collections of works of art (over 3,000,000 items) present the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century.

Address:34 Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya (subway station «Nevsky Prospect»).
Phone: (+7-812) 117-3420, 117-3465.
Official website: www.hermitage.ru

:: The State Russian Museum ::

The State Russian Museum is the world's largest museum of Russian art. The collection of the Russian Museum numbers some 400,000 works and covers the entire history of Russian fine art from the tenth century to the present day. It reflects virtually every form and genre of art in Russia, including a unique collection of Old Russian icons, works of painting, graphic art and sculpture, decorative and applied art, folk art and numismatics, as well as the world's finest collection of Russian avaunt-garde.

Address: Inzhenernaya str., 4 (subway stations «Nevsky Prospect»).
Phone: (+7-812) 314-3448, 595-4248.
Official website: www.rusmuseum.ru

:: The Central Naval Museum ::

The Central Naval Museum is one of the oldest museums in Russia. The Museum originated in the St. Petersburg Model Chamber founded by Peter I in 1709. In 1939 the Central Naval Museum was transferred to the Stock Exchange building, the focal point of the best architectural ensembles in St. Petersburg - the Spit (Strelka) of Vasilyevsky Island.

All history of the Russian fleet has found reflection in exposure and extensive assembly of a museum. For almost three centuries of the existence the museum became by the integral part of Naval Fleet, and history of a museum - by a part Naval history.

Address: Birzhevaya Square, 4 (subway stations «Nevsky Prospect», «Vasileostrovskaya», «Sportivnaya» ).
Phone: (+7-812) 328-2502
Official website: museum.navy.ru

:: The Kunstkammer ::

Located on the banks of the Neva in the center of St.Petersburg, the Kunstkammer has been the symbol of the Russian Academy of Sciences since the early 18th century. Founded to Peter the Great's Decree, the Museum opened to the public in 1714.

Its purpose was to collect and examine natural and human curiosities and rarities. Today, collections of Peter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkammer) are among the most complete and interesting in the world. These collections contain over one million artifacts and reflect the diversity of traditional cultures in the Old and New World. The Museum has always been one of the world's largest centers where human cultural heritage is studied, continuing the traditions of the great Russian cultural and physical anthropologists of the 18 - 20th centuries.

Address: 3 University Emb. (subway stations «Nevsky Prospect», «Vasileostrovskaya»).
Phone: (+7-812) 328-1412
Official website: www.kunstkamera.ru

:: The Russian Museum of Ethnography ::

The Russian Museum of Ethnography is one of the largest ethnographic museums in the world. Its collections number about half a million exhibits consisting of objects of everyday life, archive materials, drawings, engravings, lithographs and documentary photographs reflecting the traditional cultures of more than 150 peoples of the Eastern Europe, Siberia, the Far East, the Caucasus and Central Asia from 18th-20th centuries.

Address: Inzhenernaya str., 4/1 (subway station «Nevsky Prospect»).
Phone: (+7-812) 313-4421
Official website: www.ethnomuseum.ru