Museums of St. Petersburg, which are definitely worth visiting with children

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

Many of St. Petersburg's museums that are worth visiting with children are free on certain days. A number of museums that do not have to pay to enter are open to visitors all year round. Let's find out about the most interesting ones.

Hermitage, Pushkin Museum-Apartment and others

You can wander around the Hermitage for hours. Children will be especially interested in looking at the exhibits of the museum and getting to know their acquaintances. Of course, if you read about them beforehand. For example, in the illustrated book The Hermitage from Floor to Floor by D. Arsenyeva.

Children under 18 are free to enter the museum. And on the third Thursday of every month you can go to the Hermitage for free with your whole family.

In addition, if you take home a "Hermitage" cat as part of the annual May holiday "Day of the Hermitage Cat", you will receive a certificate for a lifetime free visit to the museum.

Opening hours: from 10.30 to 17.00, on Wednesday and Friday - until 21.00. The museum is closed on Monday, January 1st and May 9th.

For inquiries at the number: +7 (812) 710-96-25.

The museums of St. Petersburg, which are worth visiting with children for free, include the Pushkin Museum-Apartment on the Moika Embankment. This is the oldest Pushkin museum in Russia. The place where the great poet spent his last days. The apartment has been restored and restored according to the accounts of eyewitnesses of that time. You can visit it for free three times a year: February 10, May 18 and June 6. Families with many children, children under 7 years old, and children under 18 years old (no more than 1 time per month) have the right to free admission.

Visitors note that the presence of the poet is everywhere in the apartment, and praise the professionalism of the museum's guides.

Opening hours: from 10.30 to 18.00, every day, except Tuesday. For inquiries, call: +7 (812) 571-38-01.

Children who love animals will love the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. There are 35 thousand exhibits here, so it is not surprising that such a collection of animals is one of the largest in the world.

Working hours: from 11.00 to 18.00 daily, except Tuesday; insect exposition - until 17.00. Admission is free on the third Thursday of every month. Large families, preschoolers visit the museum for free.

For inquiries at the number: +7 (812) 328-01-12.

Among the museums of St. Petersburg, which are worth visiting with creative children, who are engaged in a theater studio, participate in performances, dance, play instruments, we can highlight the Museum of Theater and Musical Art. You and your children will see models of theaters from different eras, fake objects, costumes, look behind the scenes, even stand behind the machine where Galina Ulanova herself once worked.

Children under 7 years old are allowed free admission. Children under 18 years old are free to enter the museum on the third Thursday of each month.

Working hours: from Thursday to Monday from 11.00 to 19.00; on Wednesday - from 13.00 to 21.00. The museum is closed on Tuesday and last Friday of the month. For inquiries at the number: +7 (812) 571-21-95.

Perhaps one of the best places to visit with children is the Arctic and Antarctic Museum. He will especially impress curious boys. Stuffed animals, the northern lights, a real plane under the roof of the museum - there is something to see here.

And the excursions are very informative. Free admission is provided to preschoolers, and children under 18 and large families can come to the museum with a free ticket every third Thursday of the month. On September 1, schoolchildren can also visit the museum for free.

Opening hours during the academic year: from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.00 to 18.00, except Monday. Summer opening hours should be checked with the museum.

For inquiries at the number: +7 (812) 764-68-18.

Free museums

There are museums in St. Petersburg where you can always go with children for free by appointment:

• Petersburg Metro Museum (entry: +7 (812) 301-98-33;
• Mining Museum (entry: +7 (812) 328-80-35;
• Coca-Cola Museum (registration: +7 (812) 363-10-00;
• Bison nursery - a large enclosure with bison (entry: +7 (921) 959 89 40).

Choose what will be interesting for your children.

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Top 3 interesting places for children

It will be interesting for children to spend time not only in state museums, but also in commercial ones, which, by the way, also have the opportunity to get in for free.

Here are the top destinations popular with kids:

• Family interactive museum "Illusion";
• Museum of Emotions;
• Titicaca Museum.

These are the museums of St. Petersburg that are worth visiting with children of different ages: at 6, 10 years old, at 15 years old - they will definitely be interested. In "Illusion" the child will get acquainted with virtual reality, optical illusion, anti-gravity, will become a part of the 3D picture. Children under 7 years old can visit the museum for free. It works every day, except Sunday, from 11.00 to 21.00 (phone: +7 (812) 940-45-46).

In the Museum of Emotions, you can try on different images and experience a lot of different emotions. In Titicaca, an interactive museum of records, you can learn many amazing facts about the world around you. Children can enter both museums free of charge on their birthday.

The Museum of Emotions is open daily from 11.00 to 21.00. Phone: +7 (812) 715-12-35.

Titicaca is open daily from 10.00 to 21.00. Phone: +7 (812) 982-29-36.

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