Location: Nevskiy
Top Things to do in Nevskiy
Top Restaurants in St. Petersburg
What to do and see in Nevskiy, Northwestern District: The Best Museums
The second largest city in Russia, St. Petersburg is the country’s cultural heart. View splendid architectural gems like the Winter Palace and the Kazan Cathedral, and give yourself plenty of time to browse the world-renowned art collection of the Hermitage. Sprawling across the Neva River delta, St. Petersburg offers enough art, nightlife, fine dining and cultural destinations for many repeat visits.
Restaurants in St. Petersburg
1. Center of the Mikhail Chemyakin
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5.0 based on 16 reviews
Open space for the dialogue of science and art, classics and modernity, physics and metaphysics The Mikhail Shemyakin Center regularly hosts lectures, master classes, performances, concerts and, of course, exhibitions of works by Shemyakin and his contemporaries.
2. Museum of Soviet Life Style
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5.0 based on 75 reviews
In this museum you can see the items of soviet life, especially of 1970-1990 years, which used to be usual in lifes of soviet citizens. Museum causes nostalgic and warm emotions. You can touch, make photos, play games, try to fit in soviet cloth. Museum of soviet lifestyle also offers to buy souvenirs.
Reviewed By ClintonJ1 - Sentosa Island, Singapore
Unpretentious and not overly curated, this is a bit like falling into an overstuffed apartment from the 1970s/1980's. The retained tat from that period in time is worth a sentimental journey back in time
3. Board Games Museum
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5.0 based on 12 reviews
First boardgames museum in Russia
4. The Shadow Museum
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5.0 based on 327 reviews
"Shadow Museum" is a unique art space where modern art objects in the style of shadow art are represented. All the art works are connected in a unified exposition, the excursion "St. Petersburg of shadows" is provided in Russian and English. The museum also has a creative kitchen where all the visitors have a chance to enjoy a cup of tea and share their impressions or create their own art works.
Reviewed By Hicksy77 - Andover, United Kingdom
The Shadow Museum displays a style of art that I have not seen anywhere else. We were given a guided tour, in English, of the artwork some of which was very clever. It is not the longest tour ever, we were there a little under an hour, but for less than a fiver a head, it is well worth a visit!
5. State Russian Museum
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4.5 based on 3,219 reviews
Countless masterpieces, ranging from 12th-century icons to 20th-century paintings, are displayed at this important art museum housed in the splendid and historically significant Mikhailovsky Palace.
Reviewed By 844JohnM844 - Houston, United States
This Art Museum is a manageable Art Museum Dedicated to Russian Classical Art. Everyone wants to go to the Hermitage - which is a meandering museum which really takes three days, otherwise it is a whirlwind trot trying to keep up with the tour guide. On the other hand this museum is very well laid out and affords the visitor a true Russian experience. You can take in the whole museum in several hours at a manageable pace. It is housed in a beautiful palace, that is much more pleasing than the Hermitage. It has cafes and restrooms which are easily accessible. (Hint, any cultural event that you want to experience in Russia at leisure should occur in the morning. About 11 am the international tour buses begin showing up. We got there at 10 am and there was no wait. When we left at 1 pm the line was so long that they were admitting people in groups of 30 an estimated wait time of 30 - 45 minutes. This is going to be true for any of the major Russian museums or cultural events. Get there in the morning. Tour guides like there groups to have leisurely breakfast, ;have to get them loaded on the bus and then make it through the streets of St. Petersburg and they all get there about the same time)
6. Kazan Cathedral
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4.5 based on 4,143 reviews
Built in the early 1800s to duplicate the Vatican's Basilica of St. Peter, this huge cathedral served as a monument to Russia's victory over Napoleon in the War of 1812 and today houses the Museum of Religion.
Reviewed By Pranavito - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
It is a lovely, imposing structure from the outside, but a bit bare and not decorative from the interior but I guess the comparison with the Cathedral of the Spilt Blood is unfair. Kazan is an active church, you could see a line of people waiting to kiss one of the icons and many of them sitting around in prayer and lighting candles. The ambience is spiritual and surely worth a visit, to get a peek into the daily life of ordinary Russians.
7. Mikhailovskiy Castle Historical Museum
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4.5 based on 347 reviews
Now a branch of the Russian Museum with portraits of Russian rulers on display, this castle built for Paul I has a fascinating and mysterious history, which includes Paul's assassination in his own bedroom.
8. Central Railway Museum
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4.5 based on 86 reviews
Russia's best railways museum uses intricately detailed models to trace the development of the country's railways from the first Russian steam locomotive to modern-day trains.
9. The Pushkin Apartment Museum
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4.5 based on 605 reviews
Celebrated Russian poet Alexander Pushkin died tragically in this apartment building, which is now a museum honoring his life and works.
10. Russian Museum of Ethnography
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4.5 based on 336 reviews
The folk art, crafts, dress and lifestyles of the various peoples and tribes who inhabited the vast expanse of territory in the former USSR are portrayed on the two floors of this unusual museum.
Reviewed By norbertzoltank - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
A great ethnographic collection that spans the regions of eastern/southern Europe and as far to the east as Vladivostok. The items are well-grouped nad logically displayed on two floors and four major and several minor halls. Most descriptions are bilingual so if you don't know Russian, don't worry, you will understand most of it.
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