Of course, the bulk of tourists visiting the Northern Capital seek to visit and its main least museums. It is difficult to even say how many of them actually in this city. Somewhere there is a digit 146, but it is possible that they are even more. For example, the Hermitage is certainly considered the most popular, but it is impossible to visit it just so fluent. In order to somehow figure out a little in everything that is presented in it, at least two weeks will be required.
There are of course in St. Petersburg and very small museums, but this does not mean that they are very minor. In each of them there is something else interesting. For example, you can learn how the current political history of our country has reflected on the appearance of St. Petersburg, which survived the city and its inhabitants in the heavy days of the blockade, what secrets are stored in the fabulous doll museum and much more.
The first in the list among the museums of the city is of course the Hermitage. It is rightfully considered one of the largest cultural and historical and artistic museums in the world. If all its exhibits are inspected in detail, spending at least one minute for each, it will be required more than eleven years.
In second place, the beautiful Russian museum is definitely worthwhile, which was the first state museum of Russian visual art in the country. It presents the history of culture by more than a thousand recent years and everything has about four hundred thousand exhibits.
The Shadow Museum is actually not analogous art space in which the creators seek to tell visitors an amazing history of St. Petersburg in the language of light and shadows. And here you can see not only yourself, but also the surrounding items from a completely unexpected side.
If you can visit the Museum "Universe Water", you can find out not only how water supply developed in St. Petersburg, but also to get acquainted with the latest ideas of the most famous scientists about the water and its role in the natural balance. You will be able to visit the water tower and in a small museum, which is inside it - in the former premises of the main reservoir.
The Petropavlovsk fortress is unconditionally considered the heart of the city on the Neva, the place from which he actually began. Nowadays, several historical very important objects are located on the territory of the fortress - the Petropavlovsky Cathedral, the Mint, the Casemates of the Fortress and Naryshkin Bastion, from the top of which every day a cannon shot is distributed.
If from the German language to translate into the Russian name of the famous St. Petersburg Museum "Kunstkamera", it will sound like a "Cabinet of Rarkness". And its exhibits certainly confirm this name. Here you can see a huge variety of different natural anomalies - Siamese twins, a two-headed lamb, huddled ugly babies and so on. However, the museum has less creepy sections - for example, those that are devoted to the culture of different parts of the world and still the history of different scientific discoveries.
The Zoological Museum in St. Petersburg is perhaps one of the world's largest on this topic. It contains about thirty thousand exhibits literally from all over the world, including the stuffed animals. For schoolchildren, very exciting excursions are often organized here.
If you want to see in one day immediately all the main sights of our country, then you will need to go to the Museum "Grand Mock Russia". Here the train departing from St. Petersburg comes to Vladivostok for only 18 minutes. But the truth is in a detailed way to consider every corner of this layout, you will have to spend not one hour of time.
It will be undoubtedly interesting to visit the Museum of Political Life of Russia, which was founded back in October 1919. So almost a hundred years already in it is kept numerous evidence of the political life of our country, but there are also such documents that are given by the end of the eighteenth century.
Be sure to look at the Arctic Museum and Antarctic, at least in order to find out why Penguin can never meet with a white bear, as it looks like a drifting station and what is actually the distance from the moon to the village of Mirny. And here you can see the Arctic water of two hundred thousand years old or amphibious aircraft.
The Museum of the Academy of Arts appeared in the city at Neva, in the middle of the eighteenth century, at first, as a meeting of paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings of masters from Western European countries and, of course, Russia. But in addition to the stunning collection of graphics and painting, it also presents the layouts of architectural structures.