Quick! St. P. Tour ...backpacks allowed most places?

[janmcn]

Taking a private Alla 2-day tour in St. Petersburg beginning tomorrow. No backpacks/coats in Hermitage, but elsewhere??? Will be cold 50's.

 

 

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[easyboy]

You can leave them on the van.

 

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[dogs4fun]

It will not be cold in the Hermitage so you won't need your coat in the museum. Take your backpack and coat with you when you disembark your ship -and simply leave them on your van - this way you will have you things with you for any outside activities wherein a coat may be needed.

[spbstan]

To answer the question, most do not allow backpacks, too many priceless items that could turn up missing or damaged by acid attacks that have plagues art museums around the world. There are cloakrooms in every museum, theater and restaurant so checking it can be done but if in a group tour the group would be needlessly delayed by going downstairs to the cloakrooms and leaving trying retrieve items left. Best to not even take it off the ship since you really have no use for it. If it for cameras, a sling strap and a general purpose wide zoom is really all that is needed so no case is needed. I usually take several lenses but hang the heaviest for a Black Rapid sling strap, a 70-200 2.8, and a wide zoom(14-24 2.8) in a belt pouch. You really do not need long FLs, getting wide enough is the challenge. Be sure your tour operator arranged for camera permits in each museum.

Traveling around the city with less is better than trying to cover all bases by taking everything you MIGHT need. The same restrictions apply to large purses.

[Pet Nit Noy]

To answer the question, most do not allow backpacks, too many priceless items that could turn up missing or damaged by acid attacks that have plagues art museums around the world.

 

No need to be quite so apocalyptic! A backpack is much more likely to brush up against the surface of a painting in a congested gallery than it is to contain acid or be the intended receptacle for a stolen work of art.

 

Museum ban backpacks to solve common problems, knowing the rare, big ones get solved by the same rules.

[cpl100]

So, what size purse is allowed?