Kunstkamera

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Кунсткамера, Музей антропологии и этнографии

This museum, hosted in the Baroque building constructed in 1714-1728, is primarily famous for its one-room freak show collection of 300 year-old deformed foetuses in formaldehyde (of which you are not allowed to take pictures). But the Kunstkamera is also an etnography museum, and most of its collections display the artifacts of indigenous peoples from various parts of the world. It also hosts a collections of historical scientific instruments,like compasses and experimental generators. It is the oldest state museum in Russia, established by Peter the Great in 1704 to host his personal collection,with objects collected during his travels across Europe. A significant part of it has been purchased from Dutch merchants.

• history
• museum

Address

Universitatskaya Embankment (Университетская наб.), 3

Getting there

close to the Palace Bridge; enter around the corner on Tamozhenny Pereulok; buses 10, 191; Trolleybuses 7 to stop 'Биржевая площадь'

Hours

Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00, closed every last Tue of the month

Price

RUB 400

Phone

+7 812 3281412

Website

kunstkamera.ru (opens in a new tab)