The museum has its origins in 1924 with the “corner of Ilyich”, established in the memory of VI Ulyanov (Lenin). In 1992, the museum-apartment of Lenin Museum was reorganized into the history of the revolutionary-democratic movement. In 2006, with the opening of new museum exhibitions was called “all ranks Petersburg” Museum includes several commemorative and thematic expositions:. Historical exhibition “Around Semenovski parade ground”, dedicated to the...
The museum is located on Nevsky Prospekt, 5. Right at the entrance you will meet the cheerful skull from Mexico. You will get acquainted with the gods of death in Nigeria and Egypt, and see the spirit of death in Hong Kong. You wink death masks from the Vatican and fashion skeletons from Italy will suit most nedinamichnoe fashion show in the universe. And for a snack, you will learn all about the most unusual funeral rituals from different countries and the most bizarre tombstones. And, having...
The monument to the famous Russian leader captured a historic moment, when he spoke to the people with the armored car. It is here Lenin arrived April 3, 1917 in secret, because before that he was in immigration and led out his people deyatelnost.No it anyway learned and came to greet, then Lenin began to howl the people to fight against the regime, it is this speech inspired sculptors to create the monument. Nearly 10-meter high statue was erected in 1926 from gray-black granite total weight...
The museum features a total of 12 bicycles that belonged to Russian emperors and their family. It is located in one of the oldest houses in Peterhof which was built in 1796. In addition to quite ordinary bicycles you can see some peculilar ones. For instance, a French ”Boneshaker” with wooden wheels Alexander III used to ride or spider bicycles with front wheels 50 cm in diameter. The museum also presents a variety of things that somehow evoke the image of a bicycle: stamps, cards,...
Museum of Dreams, Freud, one of the most unusual in our town, he is installing It was opened in 1999, the centenary of the release of one of the most famous books of Sigmund -. ” Interpretation of Dreams’. In addition to the St. Petersburg museum, there is also one in Vienna, where he worked for many years and a great thinker in London, his last place of residence, where it is still kept all his things, including the famous couch. All the walls of the museum, the floor and the...
Toy Museum is the first non-state St. Petersburg museum. It was founded in 1997 and is intended to reveal a toy, not only as a means of entertainment but also as a piece of art. The three halls are more than 12 thousand exhibits, but the most valuable of them, from Africa, China (5th century BC.), Indonesia. Each visitor will be able to find exactly the toy which he had in his childhood and plunge into...