What to do and see in Admiralteisky, Northwestern District: The Best History Museums

This museum devoted to the famous author offers a window into Nabokov's life, including some of his books, his butterfly collection and his drawings of butterflies.

The State Museum of the History of Religion is one of the world’s few museums and the only one of its kind in Russia. Its permanent exhibition features the origin and development of Religion. The Museum collection numbers about 200 000 exhibits. It houses a wide range of historical and cultural artifacts from various countries, ages, and peoples which date back to the 6th Millennium BC. The Museum established a reputation of one of the most fast-growth museums in Russia for the last 5 years. The Museum opened to the public new permanent exhibition’s departments: ‘Islam’, ‘Sukhavati – the Pure Land of Buddha Amitabha’ (‘The Buddhist Paradise’), ‘Religions of the East: Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism and Shinto’ and special Children department ‘The Very Beginning’ as well. The museum is delighted to announce that the redisplayed permanent exhibition’s departments, ‘The Archaic and Primitive Beliefs’, ‘Religions of the Ancient World: Polytheism’, ‘Religions of the Ancient World: Judaism and Rise of Monotheism’ and ‘Rise of Christianity’ were opened to public on April 2012. Anybody who is familiar with the experience of the world museum development knows that very few museums go in for the full redisplay and making new exhibition projects, does justice our executive work.

Historical theatrical scale model Petrovskaya Akvatoria - is the story of occurrence of the Northern capital and the creation of the Russian fleet in the interactive miniature. Spit of Vasilyevsky Island without Rostral Columns, Menshikov's homestead instead SPBGU, the first port of St. Petersburg, Masquerade in Peterhof, old fortress in Oranienbaum, which no longer exist,- all this was hard to imagine, but now you can see it with your own eyes! Here recreated ancient estates, parks, palaces, some of them we will never see ... The main feature of the scale model - a real water area, symbolizing the Neva's aquatory and the Gulf of Finland, models of ships of the Petrine era float on water. Reconstruction of the architectural ensembles and landscape is not the main point of the exhibit. It is only the decoration, in which unfolds a picture of life in the city in the time of the great Russian emperors from Peter the Ist till Catherine the IInd The originality of the exhibit is given by moving objects (figures of people, carriages, ships), light, sound and visual effects, which can reliably reproduce the change of the day and night, and also changing of the weather's conditions. Different scenarios of the theatrical actions is turned on according the timetable and also by pressing special buttons. It brings the additional interaction to the exhibit. The own developments and know-how were used to realize the scenarios.

Russian Vodka Museum reopened in a new location at Number 4 Konnogvardeysky Boulevard under the same roof with the new restaurant "Russian VodkaRoom No. 1"Restaurant and museum complex is situated in the very heart of St. Petersburg near St. Isaac’s Square in the historical building of Headquarters and Stables of the Horse Guard Regiment.Russian Vodka Museum is the first museum in Russia and in the world dedicated exclusively to Vodka. Its exhibition tells about the drink which has been an integral part and essential attribute of Russian life for centuries. Russian Vodka Museum is a member of "Museum Quarter. St.Petersburg." The museum gives a fascinating insight into the Russian history, culture and drinking traditions. During the guided tour around museum our guests will hear about the vodka’s origin, Russian dining traditions, Russian vodka Kings, and get to understand close link between the history of the Russian State and the history of this strong drink.