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Issue #1382 (46), Tuesday, June 17, 2008

MUSEUMS

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Academy of Arts Museum (The Scientific-Research Museum of the Academy of Arts) 17 Universitetskaya Nab. Tel. 323-6496, 323-3578 M. Vasileostrovskaya. Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Andrei Voronikhin. Dedicated to Voronikhin’s 250th anniversary. Architectural graphics. October 29 through November 29
Self-Portrait and Portrait of the Artist. Alexander Varnek, Matvei Manizer, Ivan Bugayevsky-Blagodarny, Yevsei Moiseyenko and others. Painting, graphics, sculpture of 18-21 centuries. October 30 through November 29

Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House. 34 Fontanka River, entrance from 53 Liteiny Pr. M. Gostiny Dvor, Mayakovskaya. Tel. 272-2211. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday and the last Wednesday of every month. www.akhmatova.spb.ru
 NEW! Yelena Podvolotskaya.Graphics, objects. November 11 through November 24

Alexander Blok Apartment Museum 57 Ul. Dekabristov, M. Sadovaya, Sennaya Pl. Tel. 713-8631. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Tuesday.

Isaak Brodsky Apartment Museum (The I. I. Brodsky Memorial Museum-Apartment) 3 Pl. Iskusstv. M. Nevsky Prospekt. Tel 314-3658. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday, Tuesday

Central Naval Museum
4 Birzhevaya Pl., M. Nevsky Pr., Vasileostravskaya, Sportivnaya. Tel. 328-2502. Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed last Thursday of each month.

Dostoevsky Apartment Museum (F.M.Dostoevsky Memorial House-Museum) 5/2 Kuznechny Pereulok, M. Vladimirskaya. Tel. 571-4031. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday and last Wednesday of each Month.

Kirov Apartment Museum 26/28 Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. M. Gorkovskaya, Petrogradskaya. Tel. 346-0217. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday

Konstantinovsky State Palace of Congresses 3 Beryozovaya Alleya. Take bus from M. Avtovo. Tel. 438 5360. Daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Wednesdays
A permanent exhibition features Russian art of the 17th-20th centuries (the Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich collection).

Matyushin House Museum of the St. Petersburg Avant Garde 10 Professora Popova Ul. M. Petrogradskaya. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Wednesday.
The Topography of St. Petersburg’s Avant Garde. Photo. October 2 through January 26

Military Medical Museum 2 Lazaretny Pereulok. M. Pushkinskaya. Tel. 315-5358, 315-7287. Daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed at weekend.

Museum Children’s Center of Historical Education 13 Bolotnaya. Tel. 297-7916, 297-4259. M. Ploshad Muzhestva. Daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Thursday and last Monday of each month.

Museum of City Sculpture: New Exhibition Hall 179/2a Nevsky Prospekt. Entrance through Chernoretskogo Pereulok. Tel. 274-2635, 274- 2579, 274-3860. Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Thursday, Friday.
Griboyedov. 21st Century. Our Version. Video. November 21 through November 22

Museum of Dolls 8 Kamskaya Ulitsa, M. Vasileostrovskaya. Tel. 327-7224, 321-7869. Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. - master-class in making dolls.

Museum of Coffee 14 Nab. Robespierra M. Chernyshevskaya. Tel 375-8739, 275-4690. Daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Monday. Entrance 150-180 rubles.   www.mcof.ru

Museum Monument of the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Ploshad Pobedy. M. Moskovskaya. Tel. 371-2951, 373-6563. Daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.. Closed last Tuesday of each month.

Museum of the History of Religion
14/5 Pochtamtskaya. M. Nevsky Prospekt, Sennaya, Sadovaya. Tel. 571-0495, 314-5838. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday

Museum of the History of St. Petersburg Peter & Paul Fortress. M. Gorkovskaya. Tel. 230 0329. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Wednesday. www.spbkrepost.ru
Permanent Collection The St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, housing the graves of most of the Romanov dynasty; History of the Mint; Museum of Old Petersburg; and more.
Exhibits are housed in various locations in the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The History of the Trubetsky Bastion Prison 1872-1921The Peter and Paul Fortress was Imperial St. Petersburg’s main jail and this exhibition tells the story of the famous revolutionaries and opponents of the Tsar who were imprisoned there.
The Peter and Paul Cathedral and the Great Princely Necropolis of the House of Romanov The story of the last resting place of the Romanov Dynasty from Peter the Great to Nicholas II, who was finally reinterred there in 1998.
Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology 3 Peter and Paul Fortress, Ioannovsky Ravelin. Tel. 230 0332. M. Gorkovskaya. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Wednesday.
 NEW! The Library of Schlisselburg Fortress.Objects from the collections of the St. Petersburg History and Political History museums. November 10 through Dec. 25

Museum of the Political History of Russia 2/4 Ul. Kuibysheva, M. Gorkovskaya. Tel. 233-7052. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Thursday.
 NEW! The Lion of the Revolution. Dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Lev Trotsky’s birth. Photo, video, graphics, painting. Oscar Budegol, Anne Lise Brun, Tur Erdal, Ingve Henriksen, Jenni Marie Junsen, Heidi Nikolaien, Arvid Sveen, Kaisa Setterquist. Part of the Hamsun Days in St. Petersburg event. November 6 through December 9

Museum of the History of St. Petersburg 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya. Entrance from Mendeleyevskaya Liniya. Tel. 328-9683
The History of the Peter & Paul Fortress. Objects. Holidays and ceremonies at Zayachiy island, and church life at the Peter & Paul cathedral. May 28 through December 27

Museum of the History of St. Petersburg: Rumyantsev Mansion 44 Angliiskaya Naberezhnaya. M. Vasileostrovskaya, Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 571-7544. Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Wednesday and the last Tuesday of each month.
 NEW! Piranesi and Piranesiness. A collection of engravings by Giovanni Batista and work by St. Petersburg architects and artists inspired by Piranesi. November 19 through February 25
Blockade Relics. Objects. September 3 through January 31

Museum of Printing 32 Naberezhnaya Reki Moiki. Tel. 571-0270. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Wednesday
Museum of Toys 32 Naberezhnaya Reki Karpovki. Entrance from Vsevolod Vishnevsky Ul. M. Petrogradskaya, Chkalovskaya. Tel. 234-4312. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday and last Tuesday of each Month.

Vladimir Nabokov Apartment Museum 47 Bolshaya Morskaya. Tel. 315-4713, 717-4502. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Weekend 12 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday. www.nabokovmuseum.org
 NEW! Anastasia Zykina. Illustrations to Leonid Andreyev using different techniques on metal. November 20 through December 6

Narva Triumphal Gates Museum-Memorial 1 Ploshad Stachek, M. Narvskaya, tel. 786-9782. Daily 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday, Tuesday and last Friday of each month

Nikolai Nekrasov Apartment Museum 36 Liteiny Prospekt. M. Chernyshevskaya. Tel. 272-0165. Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Tuesday and the last Friday of each month.

Popov Central Museum of Communication 3 Pochtamtsky Pereulok. Tel. 323-9718. Daily 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday and the last Thursday of each month. www.rustelecom-museum.ru
The History of the Postal Service in Russia Permanent exposition.

Pushkin Apartment Museum 12 Nab. Reki Moika. Tel: 571 3801. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Tuesday. www.peterlink.ru/spb/pushkin

Russian Ethnographic Museum. 4/1 Inzhenernaya Ul. M. Nevsky Prospect. Tel. 313-4421. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday and the last Friday of each month.

Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment Museum 28 Zagorodny Prospekt, Courtyard. M. Dostoyevskaya. Tel. 713-3208, 315-3975. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday, Tuesday and last Friday of each month.

Nikolai Roerich Apartment Museum 1 Line 18, V.O. Daily 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday, Tuesday. Tel. 325-4413. www.roerich.spb.ru
 NEW! Mikhail Botkin. Artist and collector.Painting. November 20 through December 31

Samoilov Apartment Museum 8 Stremyannaya Ul. Tel. 764-1130. M. Mayakovskaya.
Le Spectre de la Danse. 100 Years Later: Alla Buryakova. Graphics. October 17 through January 31
Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams 18a Bolshoi Prospekt, Petrograd Side. M. Sportivnaya. Tel. 235-2929. Tuesday and Sunday 12 a.m. to 5 p.m.
 NEW! The Gift of the Owl: Arkady Nasonov. Installation. November 8 through December 4
State Russian Center of Photography 35 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tel. 314 1214. www.rosphoto.org
False Magic of Black & White: Alexander Slusarev. Photo. October 10 through December 13

State Russian Museum 2 Inzhenernaya Ul. M. Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 314-3448, 595-4248. Monday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Tuesday. www.rusmuseum.ru/eng
Permanent Collection The world’s finest and most extensive collection of works by Russian artists, from 12th-century icons to some of the latest movements in contemporary art exhibited in the Mikhailovsky Palace and in associated buildings listed below.
 NEW! Vera Mukhina. Sculpture. November 19 through December 20
Diaghilev. The Beginning. Photo, objects, painting, sculpture. October 15 through February 28

State Russian Museum: Marble Palace 5/1 Millionnaya Ul. M. Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 312-9196. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Tuesday. A branch of the State Russian Museum.

State Russian Museum: Mikhailovsky (Engineers’) Castle 2 Sadovaya Ulitsa. M. Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 313-4112. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Tuesday. A branch of the State Russian Museum.
Robert Beitman (Canada). October 8 through November 30

State Russian Museum: Stroganov Palace 17 Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 571-2360. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Tuesday. A branch of the State Russian Museum.
 NEW! Painting Trajectories. Contemporary Indian art. Sculpture, painting, graphics, installations, photo. November 18 through February 8

State Hermitage Museum
34 Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya. M. Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 571-3420, 571-3465. Daily, 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday. www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html
Permanent Collection Three million items in six buildings along the Neva and around Palace Square. Unless otherwise stated temporary exhibitions are displayed in the Winter Palace, the museum’s main building.
 NEW! 150 Years since the Founding of the Imperial Archaeological Commission. Objects. November 21 through December 13
The Dance. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Diaghilev’s Russian Seasons. Photo, objects. October 14 through December 13
Drawings In Blue Ink: Georg Kolbe (Germany). Graphics. October 14 through January 17
Satsuma Japanese Ceramics. Decorative art. September 25 through December 13.
Divine Faces. Greek icons from the Velimesis collection. Decorative art, painting. September 11 through December 13

State Hermitage Museum: Youth Center of the State Hermitage 45 Naberezhnaya Reki Moiki. M. Nevsky Prospect. Tel. 710-9531. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Thursday 12 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. A branch of the State Hermitage Museum.
 NEW! 3rd International Cyberfest Festival Opening of the festival. Marina Koldobskaya, Oleg Rodionov, Anthon Chumak, Nikita Tsymbal, Dmitry Shubin, Cylands and others. Video, audio-installations, performances. November 20 through November 29

State Hermitage Museum: General Staff Building Daily, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 10:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday.
Museum of The Guards A permanent addition to the Hermitage in The General Staff Building.


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