List of museums in Saint Petersburg

Biographical museums

Writers'

Alexander Pushkin museums

National Pushkin Museum (http://www.museumpushkin.ru/eng/) 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 (http://www.russianmuseums.info/M143)

Anna Akhmatova museums

Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum (Fountain House)
Anna Akhmatova. The Silver Age (in Avtovo)

Other writers'

Derzhavin Museum of Gavrila Derzhavin
Nekrasov Apartment Museum of Nikolay Nekrasov with Ivan Panaev memorial study
Dostoevsky Museum
Nabokov House
Mikhail Zoshchenko's apartment
Joseph Brodsky (branch of Anna Akhmatova (Fountain House) Museum)

Literary characters'

Ostap Bender http://ostapmuseum.chat.ru/

Artists'

Ilya Repin (The Penates House) (a branch of Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum)

Arkhip Kuindzhi (a branch of Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum)

Isaak Brodsky (a branch of Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum)

Nicholas Roerich - http://www.roerich.spb.ru/en

Scientists'/Scholars'

Mikhail Lomonosov museum, a department of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in the building of Kunstkamera

Dmitry Mendeleev's Memorial Museum Apartment

Ivan Pavlov's memorial apartment in Academician's Home (Rus. Dom Akademikov) at 1, Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment

Lev Gumilev (branch of Anna Akhmatova (Fountain House) Museum)

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

Kamchatka (http://www.clubkamchatka.ru/about, of Viktor Tsoi)
John Lennon Love, Peace and Music Temple at 10, Pushkinskaya street squat

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 http://en.polithistory.ru/ with several branches

Pre-1917

Cabin of Peter the Great
Winter Palace of Peter the Great (http://hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_8.html)
Suvorov Museum
Stroganov Palace
Yusupov Palace on the Moika (Moika Palace)
Admiral Stepan Makarov's Memorial Study at Gidropribor production facility in Saint Petersburg (Russian homepage - http://www.gidropribor.ru/index.php?id=16, info in Rus. also at http://www.missiles.ru/foto_Gidropribor.htm)
Plekhanov House

Soviet politicians'

Lenin Museums

The State Historical and Memorial Museum of Smolny in the building occupied since 1920s by the city government - previously of the former Smolny Institute next to Smolny Convent (http://www.russianmuseums.info/M109, http://www.allmuseums.spb.ru/mus_smolny/exposition.shtml). In early 21st century it shows 1) the history of the pre-1917 institute (the 1st state educational facility for young ladies), 2) the history of 1917 October Revolution and the time the building was occupied until the spring 0f 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(Lenin Street) in Petrogradsky district (one of Lenin's sisters Anna nee Uliyanova was married to Mark Yelizarov, and Lenin was their guest);
- the Alliluyev family memorial apartment in 10th Sovietskaya ulitsa. (The family of Nadezhda Alliluyeva and her parents was frequented by Joseph Stalin after his Siberian exile).
Raznochinniy Petersburg (The St Petersburg of Raznochintsy) (http://www.museum.ru/M175)

Kirov Museum

Sergei Kirov Memorial Apartment Museum

(http://kirovmuseum.ru/en/, http://www.russianmuseums.info/M141)

Post-1988 public figures'

Anatoly Sobchak Museum of the Foundation of Democracy in Modern Russia (http://www.museum.ru/m3231)

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Fine Arts museums and galleries

Hermitage Museum
- General Staff Building (http://hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_11.html)
- Hermitage Theatre
- Menshikov Palace (http://hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_9.html)
- Museum of Porcelain (Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory http://hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_13.html)
- New Hermitage
- Old Hermitage
- Storage Facility of the State Hermitage
- Winter Palace of Peter the Great (http://hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_8.html)
- Military Gallery

Russian Museum
- Benois Wing
- Marble Palace
- Mikhailovsky Castle
- Mikhailovsky Palace
- Stroganov Palace (http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/home/)

Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum. Rus. info http://www.nimrah.ru/
Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts

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Local history museums

Peter and Paul Fortress - home of The State Museum of the History of St. Peterburg (http://www.russianmuseums.info/M112)
Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns (former territory of the city's commercial port with lighthouses, goods storage houses, stock exchange (the latter until 2012 housing the Central Naval Museum))
Russian cruiser Aurora
Narva Triumphal Gate
Dostoevsky Museum

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Science and natural history museums

Science museums

Arctic and Antarctic Museum
Kunstkamera (*Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography)
Museum of Military Medicine
Pulkovo Observatory
Museum of Optical Technologies
The Universe of Water http://www.vodokanal-museum.ru/eng/
Umnikum http://www.umnikum.com/main/, a popular science museum for kids
The Museum of Hygiene in the Center of Preventive medicine (http://www.russianmuseums.info/M233) at Count Shuvalov Palace (http://www.gcmp.ru/ Rus. homepage)

Natural history museums

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Transport museums

Arctic and Antarctic Museum

Automobiles and motorcycles

Horsepower Museum of vintage automobiles and motorcycles http://amuseum.ru/

Aviation museums

Civil Aviation Museum of Civil Aviation Academy. Russian homepage http://www.academiaga.ru/index.php?id=141&lang=0

Rail museums

Central Museum of Railway Transport (http://www.russianmuseums.info/M171, http://railroad.ru/cmrt/)
Oktyabrskaya Railway Museum at disused Varshavsky Rail Terminal
Museum of Electrical Transport (Saint Petersburg) at otherwise nearly disused Vasileostrovsky tram depot

Maritime museums

Central Naval Museum
- D-2 Narodovolets Submarine — Located at 10 Shkipersky Protok, Vasilyevsky Island. Launched 1994. (branch of Central Naval Museum)
Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns (former territory of the city's commercial port with lighthouses, goods storage houses, stock exchange (the latter until 2012 housing the Central Naval Museum))
Russian cruiser Aurora
Krasin (1917 icebreaker) Russian website http://www.krassin.ru/
Shtandart, a replica of an 18th century yacht of tsar Peter the Great
Museum of Russian Submarine Forces at 83, Kondratiyeskiy prospekt.
С-189 diesel submarine, a Whiskey class submarine - moored off Lieutenant Shmidt Embankment, Vasilyevsky Island.
Museum of Submarine Armaments and Admiral Stepan Makarov's Memorial Study at Gidropribor production facility in Saint Petersburg (Russian homepage - http://www.gidropribor.ru/index.php?id=16, info in Rus. also at http://www.missiles.ru/foto_Gidropribor.htm)

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War and military museums

Peter and Paul Fortress
Saint Michael's Castle
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
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, as well as St Seraphim of Sarov's Memorial Cemetery and a number of other memorial cemeteries
Russian cruiser Aurora
Central Naval Museum
- D-2 Narodovolets Submarine — Located at 10 Shkipersky Protok, Vasilyevsky Island. Launched 1994. (branch of Central Naval Museum)
General Staff Building (now belongs to Hermitage Museum)
Museum of Military Medicine
Military Gallery of the Winter Palace
Narva Triumphal Gate
Suvorov Museum
С-189 diesel submarine, a Whiskey class submarine - moored off Lieutenant Shmidt Embankment, Vasilyevsky Island.
Alexander Marinesko Museum of Russian Submarine Forces at 83, Kondratiyeskiy prospekt. (http://www.russianmuseums.info/M1999)
Museum of Submarine Armaments and Admiral Stepan Makarov's Memorial Study at Gidropribor production facility in Saint Petersburg (Russian homepage - http://www.gidropribor.ru/index.php?id=16, info in Rus. also at http://www.missiles.ru/foto_Gidropribor.htm)
"... and Muses never stopped", a school museum dedicated to art and music in the besieged city during the World War II. Rus. homepage http://mbmus.narod.ru/