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Museum Erarta
Museum Erarta

Erarta Museum opened in St. Petersburg in 2010 He became the first Russian non-governmental museum of contemporary art. Erarta has become an important platform for novice artists. The main idea of ​​the museum – to bring to the broad masses of previously unknown works, show the young talents. All that has been created since 1945 is considered a modern art until today. The museum is in favor of freedom from all sorts of rules, giving unlimited room for creativity and self-expression....

Art Center Pushkinskaya 10
Art Center Pushkinskaya 10

Modern domestic arts of St. Petersburg gathered on Pushkin Street. Since 1989, since then, as a “free” artists, musicians and other creative figures have settled there in one of the unoccupied house to this day there is this creative organization. Teaming up first to the Fund “Free Culture” – a public organization, now behalf of the partnership – they have finally decided to stay in this place, making it a center for contemporary art...

Garden of butterflies Mindo
Garden of butterflies Mindo

You should definitely visit the Tropical center Mindo (former Museum of butterflies) to admire tropical butterflies. Those stunningly beautiful creatures flitter, drink the nectar of flowers and might let you get closer to take a picture. A giant chameleon, some rare kinds of parrots, colonies of turtles and ants also inhabit this...

Finland Station
Finland Station

The first building of the Finland Station was built in 1870 for the Finnish railway linking the capital of Finland. The road was built in the years 1862-1870 to the station Rihimyaki. In the early twentieth century the way the Finland Station was renovated. road level was raised to five meters above street level, so as not to interfere with the movement of the street. at Finland Station April 3, 1917, he arrived home from his exile Vladimir Lenin. The memory of that day on the square in the...

Moscow station
Moscow station

One of the five existing stations in St. Petersburg and one of the four stations, taking long-distance trains. Originally was called Nicholas. Building was built in the years 1847-1851, and was a “twin” of the Leningrad railway station in Moscow. In 1868, due to significantly increased flow of passengers building Nicholas station rebuilt. Added two-storey outbuilding for receiving luggage, the right wing of the building was connected to the royal chambers. In 1898 from Ligovsky...

St. Petersburg Planetarium
St. Petersburg Planetarium

The opening of the St. Petersburg Planetarium occurred November 5, 1959, he became the third in Russia after Moscow and Volgograd In it are five halls:. Star Hall, astronomical observatory, “Cosmic Voyage”, “planet” and laboratory entertaining experience Star hall is one of krupshenih in Russia. Its dome is 25 meters in diameter and 15 meters in height, it is designed so that it is not visible from the outside of the structure is installed in the hall device...