The Kunstkammer
| Phone: | 328-14-12 |
| www: | www.kunstkamera.ru |
| Address: | 3 University Emb., St.Petersburg |
| Opening Hours: | The Museum is open 11:00 a. m. - 6:00 p. m. daily except Mondays and the last Wednesday of each month.
The ticket office closes at 5:00 p.m
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| City Transport: | You can get to the museum by: trolley-buses 1, 7, 10; buses 7, 10
(Entrance from Tamozhenny Lane)
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The Kunstkammer or Kunstkamera was the first museum in Russia. It was established by Peter the Great on the Neva Riverfront facing the Winter Palace. The turreted Petrine Baroque building of the Kunstkamera was completed by 1727.
Peter's museum was dedicated to preserving "natural and human curiosities and rarities". The tsar's personal collection, originally stored in the Summer Palace, features a large assortment of human and animal fetuses with anatomical deficiencies, which Peter bought from the Dutch anatomist Frederick Ruysch and pharmacologist Albertus Seba. Some of the most gruesome exhibits are the heads of Catherine I's lover Willem Mons and his sister Anna Mons, still preserved in alcohol.
Hotel “ Solo Gorohovaya”, mini-hotel “B&B Admiralteyskaya” and hostel “B&B Morskaya” are in 15 minutes away from Kunstkamera. Other our hotels are located nearby.
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