Arts museums
- Building Benoi
- The scientific-research museum of Russian Academy of fine arts
- The museum of applied arts
- Isaak Brodsky apartment museum
- Avant-garde museum (the house of Matiushin)
- Non-conformist museum
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Building Benoi
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In 1919 an exhibition pavilion was built near the building of the Mikhailovsky Palace. It was named Korpus Benua (the Benoit’s Building) in honor of the architect who projected it. The building was constructed in connection with the fact that the enlarging collection of the Russian Museum could not find room only in the building of the palace.
Location: Griboedov embankment 2
Opened: 10.00 – 18.00
Closed: Tuesday
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The scientific-research museum of Russian Academy of fine arts
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The Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts is a unique art collection. The Academy of Arts holds many drawings, engravings, paintings of Russian and West European masters, as well as casts of antique and West European sculptures which served as models for drawing and certain copies of the world famous masterpieces of painting. The 1st floor holds the department of casts, antique sculpture, as well as the models of antique architecture monuments made in the 18th century. This collection is unique in its completeness and artistic value as many of the gathered casts are molded straight from the original works in 18th-19th centuries. The 2nd floor holds the exhibition devoted to the history of the Russian artistic school. The exhibited items are mostly the works made in the course of study and training program (graduation works) created by students of the Academy. The works that brought academic titles to their painters, as well as the portraits of historic figures whose activity was connected with the Academy of Arts are also on display. The collection contains works of famous Russian painters, sculptures and model made by prominent architects.
Location: Universitetskaya emb. 17
Opened: 11.00 – 18.00
Closed: Monday, Tuesday
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The museum of applied arts
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The Museum of Applied Arts of the St. Petersburg Academy of Art and Design is one of a number of interesting and distinctive phenomena in Russia. The building was designed by M. Messmacher and spanned for eleven years. On 30 April 1896 the grand opening of the Museum was held in the presence of the Imperial family. Today the Museum collections number over 30.000 works of applied art from ancient times to present. An extensive collection of Western European porcelain, Far Eastern ceramics, 16-18th century furniture are featured along with collections of glassware, and the best of students' work from the last half century. These works reflect trends in Russian applied art over the years.
Location: Solyanoy Pereulok, 13/15
Opened: 11.00 - 17.00 pm
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Isaak Brodsky apartment museum
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The I.I. Brodsky Museum acquaints us with a unique phenomenon in the history of St. Petersburg's artistic life - one of the first major private collections in the history of the Soviet State. Its owner was I. Brodsky, an outstanding painter, teacher and public figure. The Museum contains over 200 works by Brodsky himself and about 600 works by other artists.
Location: Pl. Iskusstv (Arts square) 3
Opened: 11.00 - 18.00
Closed: Monday, Tuesday
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Avant-garde museum (the house of Matiushin)
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In 1912, flat no. 12 of no. 10 Pesochnaya Street (Now Professor Popov Street) was occupied by an outstanding representative of the Russian avant-garde, the artist, musician, pedagogue and publisher Mikhail Vasilievich Matiushin and his wife, the poetess and artist Elena Genrichovna Guro. For several decades Matiushin’s house was one of the centers of cultural life of Saint Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad that united artists, musicians, and literary figures. Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, Valida Delacroix, Maxim Gorky and Alexey Kruchenykh were frequent visitors to Matiushin’s house. During the 1910-1920s, while Wladimir Mayakovsky lived and worked in this house. In 1977 Matiushin’s house was given to the State Museum of the history of Leningrad. The Petersburg Avant-garde Museum opened there in December 2006, and features the main stages of formation and diversity of Saint Petersburg’s Avant-garde culture. A fine collection of paintings and drawings, memorial items, books, manifestos, photographs, newspapers and magazine publications connected with the history of avant-garde movement of the 1910-1930s are on display in the museum.
Location: Professora Popova str., 10
Open: MO, TH-SU 11 am – 6 pm, TU 11 am – 5 pm
Closed: WE
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Non-conformist museum
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Part of the Pushkinskaya 10 Arts Center, which has become the (un)official home of St. Petersburg's alternative arts scene, this ramshackle gallery is a must-see for anyone with an interest in the development of modern art in Russia. Housed in several rooms of this sprawling association of galleries, concert venues, and studios, the museum represents the most interesting aspects of independent art from the Soviet Union. Much of the collection was donated personally by the artists, many of whom worked or still work with the Pushkinskaya collective. Official support from the State Russian Museum has helped to enlarge and formalize the collection, but it still provides a fascinating glimpse of the counter-culture in the post-war Soviet period.
Location: Ligovsky pr., 53
Open: WE –SU 3 am – 7 pm
Closed: MO, TU
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