Stieglitz Museum (St. Petersburg)

[BAYA]

Has anyone visited this museum? It sounded very interesting in my DK Eyewitness guide book but the DenRus lady I'm corresponding with made it sound like a bad idea to visit it. Anyone have comments to share?

 

I'm trying to decide whether or not to include it in my itinerary. Things I'm considering dropping in order to include it: visit to Yeliseevsky food store, ride on the Metro.

 

Help?

 

Barbara

[Princess Di]

Exactly what all did the Eyewitness Guide say about this Museum? :confused:

I have never heard of it in any of the Tour Operators literature nor any of the websites I've looked at. ;)

If you are going to the Hermitage, you will see one of the two largest and most distinguised museums in the World. After a few hours in the Hermitage, I will be Museumed Out. :eek:

Personally, I'd go for the Art in the Metros and the Shopping. :D

[Princess Di]

Selected Museums in the city center:

 

Arctic and Antarctic Museum10.00 - 17.00 Mon, Tues— Closed

 

Artillery, Engineering & Communications Museum 11.00 - 17.00 Mon, Tues— Closed

 

Aurora Cruiser10.30 - 16.00 Mon, Friday — Closed

 

Blockade Museum at Solyanoy per., 9 10.00 - 17.00 Wednesday — Closed

 

Cabin of Peter the Great10.00 - 18.00 Tuesday — Closed

 

Central Naval Museum10.30 - 17.30 Mon, Tues — Closed

 

Church-on-Spilled-Blood11.00 - 16.00 Wednesday — Closed

 

City Sculpture Museum at the A. Nevsky Lavra 10.00 - 17.00 Thursday — Closed

 

Dostoevsky Memorial Museum11.00 - 17.30 Monday — Closed

 

Hermitage (Winter Palace)10.30 - 17.00 Monday — Closed

 

History of Religion & AtheismMuseum — Closed for relocation

 

Kunstkamera (Anthropology & EthnographyMuseum) 11.00 - 18.00 Thursday — Closed

 

Marble Palace (now a RussianMuseum branch) 10.00 - 18.00 Tuesday — Closed

 

Menshikov Palace10.30 - 16.30 Tuesday — Closed

 

Mikhailovsky (Engineers) Castle10:30 - 17:00 Tuesday - Closed

 

M. M. Zoshchenko Memorial Museum10.30 - 18.00 Monday — Closed

 

Museum of Erotica08.00 - 21.30 — Daily

 

Museum of Hygienics (ShuvalovPalace) 10.00 - 17.00 — Closed w/e's

 

Museum of Russian Political History10.00 - 17.00 Thursday — Closed

 

Museum of Russian Political History 10.00 - 17.00 Thursday — Closed

 

Peter and Paul Cathedral11.00 - 18.00 Wednesday — Closed

 

Russian Museum10.00 - 17.00 Tuesday — Closed

 

Russian Museum of Ethnography 10.00 - 18.00 Monday — Closed

 

Sheremetev Palace12.00 - 18.00 Mon, Tues — Closed

 

St. Isaac's Cathedral11.00 - 15.30 Wednesday — Closed

 

Stroganov Palace10.00 - 18.00 Tuesday — Closed

 

Summer Garden and Palace of Peter I10.30 - 17.30 Tuesday — Closed

 

Suvorov Memorial Museum10.00 - 18.00 Tues, Wed — Closed

 

Trubetskoy Bastion (Fortress Prison) 11.00 - 18.00 Wednesday — Closed

 

Varshavsky Vokzal Railway Museum 10.00 - 18.00 Mon, Tues — Closed

 

Vodka Museum (5, Konnogvardeisky Bulva) 11.00 - 22.00 7 Days a Week

 

Wax Museum (Belosselsky-Belozersky Palace) 11.00 - 18.30 7 Days a Week

 

Yusupov Palace 10.00 - 17.00 7 Days a Week

 

Zoological Museum11.00 - 17.00 Friday — Closed

MUSEUMS in the SUBURBS :

Alexander Palace Pushkin 10.00 – 16.30 Tuesday – Closed

 

Gatchina Palace 10.00 – 17.00 Monday – Closed

 

Kronstadt Fortress 11.00 – 17.00 Monday, Tuesday – Closed

 

Novgorod State Museum 10.00 – 18.00 -Tuesday – Closed

 

Oranienbaum Museum 10.00 – 17.00 Tuesday – Closed

 

Pavlovsk Museum10.00 – 17.00 Friday – Closed, and on the first Monday each month

 

Penaty - Ilya Repin’s Mansion 10.30 – 17.00 Tuesday – Closed

 

Peterhof Grand Palace 10.30 – 17.00 Monday – Closed

 

Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin) Museum 10.30 – 16.30 Closed Mon,Tues, and last Friday in the month.

[PacificCruiser]

Has anyone visited this museum? It sounded very interesting in my DK Eyewitness guide book but the DenRus lady I'm corresponding with made it sound like a bad idea to visit it. Anyone have comments to share?

 

I'm trying to decide whether or not to include it in my itinerary. Things I'm considering dropping in order to include it: visit to Yeliseevsky food store, ride on the Metro.

 

Help?

 

Barbara

Hi Barbara

Another name for the Museum of Arts. It is in a very interesting glass domed building of the Art Institute, a very prestigous art school. It location is just east of Fontanka Canal 2 block south of the Neva River. It is on Solyanoy Street just across the canal from the famous Summer Gardens. It is just a little out of the way if you are not visiting the Summer Gardens, Field of Mars, Engineer's Castle or other interesting areas. If you did go there there is a little cafe across the street that has live jazz music almost everyday called NeoJazz that might be nice to have lunch in.

There are right around 120 museums in St Petersburg and with that variety, you can guess that some are very sparcely attended and just about any interest is catered to. Is it more interesting that Yelsiveesky store or the metro? Depends on your interest level in art but for general interest, the walk along Nevsky pr and the metro is more popular. What are your interests?

PacificCruiser

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