Popular Museums in Russia

Popular museums in Russia form one of the major attractions for the visiting tourists to Russia. Some of the famous Russian museums include The Hermitage (Winter Palace), The Kremlin, Tretiakov Gallery, St. Basil’s Cathedral, State Armory Museum, Peter the Great’s Cabin, Menshikov Palace Museum, The Museum of Political History in Russia, etc. St. Petersburg is considered by the people of the locality as the gorod muzei or the city museum. The erstwhile capital of an immense and illustrious empire which extended from the Silk Road to the Barents Sea and the Central Europe to the Pacific Ocean, St. Petersburg is completely filled with history, and luckily for the visitors and the people who are interested in history the history is well kept in more than 50 museums in the city.

Either you are interested to immerse yourself in more than hundred rooms of the world famous Hermitage Museum which jointly houses one of the greatest accumulations of Western European Art in the world or may also visit the widely hailed Russian Ethnographic Museum's really rich display of the culture and life of over hundred peoples of Russia, You will definitely be impressed by visiting the popular museums in Russia and will be eager to visit again.

Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps is one of the popular museums in Russia. This museum contains more than 50,000 exhibits which include an array of artillery pieces, heavy artillery, engineering equipment, battle paintings, firearms and other weapons. Another attractive museum is the Academy of Fine Arts Museum which is situated on the northern banks of the River Neva at the backside of the imported and old Egyptian sphinxes. The historic academy gives space for a permanent collection of art by the erstwhile faculty and students since its constitution in the year, 1757. It also displays a number of temporary exhibits. Arctic and Antarctic Museum demonstrates the northern sea route, the culture of those who live in the far north and the exploration and discovery of the Antartic.

Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace is the mid-19th century epoch palace which contains the City Cultural Center and has a diverse and interesting cultural program which also includes the folk dance, classical music concerts and historical performances. The first floor is contains a wax figure museum of the Russian Emperors. The next thing that you will get to see while visiting the popular museums in Russia is the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood. It is one of the unique decorations which include panels and icons which were made from mosaic and majolica, which were constructed from drawings by the top Russian artists from the last century. Preservers tell that the church bears more mosaics than any cathedral in the entire world. The church also provides shelter to a permanent exhibition called the Tsar Alexander II.

The Central Railway Museum was founded in the year, 1813. It has about 50,000 or more in-house exhibits, which portray the evolution of the railways in Russia and explicate several railroad technologies. Apart from these there are various popular museums in Russia which will surely attract you and fill your heart with a curiosity to know more about the museums and its contents.