Museums

Museum of Soviet slot machines

This museum is quite young, happily opened in 2007, is visited by both adults and children. He talks about the history of slot machines, as they are brought from the United States, sent to the defense plants and altered by a Soviet citizen. For those who want to immerse themselves in the story, can simultaneously with the story and play in any of them, they really do not take modern coins. It all depends on the country of assembly, domestic-powered 15-penny coin, Japanese or US-specific...

Mining Museum

Mining Museum is located in the same building, founded in 1774. It was the first higher technical institution of its kind in our country, created by order of Catherine II, and it funded. The story itself is a collection of nachianetsya with gift shvedkskogo King-200 minerals and stones from the country, and after a half-century collection consisted of nearly 40 thousand exhibits. Later, it was divided into several rooms: oriktognostichesky, geognostic, training mineralogy, topography,...

The Wax Museum

In this place you can find the most famous people in the world and a variety of fictional characters. History Wax in Russia began with Peter I-it was he who had brought from Europe a head made of voska.No after his death, this kind of art did not demand and forget about it for almost a century, when there was an exhibition of figures in Peterhof, consisting of 19 prominent people of the last century. It is now a leader in this area is firm Alex show, which has several exhibition areas in our...

Дом Родиона Раскольникова

Sorry, this entry is only available in Russian.В доме на пересечении Гражданской улицы и Столярного переулка начинается действие романа Федора Михайловича Достоевского «Преступление и наказание». Здание было построено в 1831 году архитектором Егором Цолликофером. Комната Раскольникова,...

House of Scientists. Vladimir Palace

Дом учёных. Владимирский дворецНекогда это здание называли «Малым императорским дворцом», а в 20-х годах оно стало общежитием. Сейчас здесь, в окружении предметов искусства и старины выдающихся скульпторов и живописцев, трудятся учёные и академики, ревностно охраняющие...

Dolls Gallery Barbara Skripkina

Галерея кукол Варвары СкрипкинойВ центре Петербурга на Большой Морской улице находится необычная экспозиция – Галерея кукол Варвары Скрипкиной, где собраны авторские работы более 60-ти кукольных дел мастеров.Долгое время своего дома у авторских кукол не было и мастера...