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Monday, 30.07.2007
Kunstkammer
“Around the world in an afternoon” might be the motto of the Kunstkammer, as the ‘Museum for Anthropology and Ethnography’ is known. Every continent except Europe is represented in the rooms, although, since this Russia’s oldest museum is currently undergoing extensive renovation, some cultures or continents might be temporarily inaccessible.
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The venerable Kunstkammer contains mostly old weapons, traditional clothing and art objects of a huge variety. But embryologists and lovers of horror films will flock to Peter the Great’s curiosities cabinet.
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Universitetskaya Nab. 3
Nearest metro:
Nevsky Prospekt/Gostiny Dvor or Sportivnaya
Opening hours: 11.00am - 6.00pm
Closed:
Mondays, last Tuesday in the month
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The Tsar who founded this museum brought back from his travels in Europe all sorts of skeletons, stuffed animals, and deformed embryos. These comprised the core of the collection showed in the Kunstkammer, Russia’s first public museum, for popular edification.
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The blue and green building is located on the opposite bank of the Neva from the Admiralty.
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(hw/rUFO)
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