Museums
Museums of Russia
1,295 museums with a page of their own, best known first: what they show, their famous works and how many people visit.
Art museum64museums
Local museum39museums
Historic house museum28museums
Ethnographic museum22museums
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Most visited museums
Visitors in the latest year on record, since 2015.
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1Hermitage Museum
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
1764
1.65M visitors
3Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Moscow, Moscow
Art museum · 1996
2.24M visitors
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4Memorial Museum of Astronautics
Moscow, Moscow
1981
750k visitors
5Museum of the Great Patriotic War
Moscow, Moscow
Military museum · 1995
700k visitors
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6Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
Moscow, Moscow
Art museum · 2008
408k visitors
7Fabergé museum in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
2013
420k visitors
8Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum
Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast
1979
142k visitors
9Vladimir K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History
Vladivostok, Primorye
1884
421k visitors
12Museum of Political History of Russia
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
History museum · 1919
140k visitors
13UMMC Museum of Military and Automotive Equipment
Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast
2006
255k visitors
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15Kunstkamera
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
1714
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16Tsarskoye Selo
Pushkin, St.-Petersburg
17Museum of the World Ocean
Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast
Maritime museum · 1990
1.3M visitors
22Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
Military museum · 1703
23Bashkir State Art Museum (Nesterov Museum)
Ufa, Bashkortostan Republic
1920
26Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
1832
27Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
Kaluga, Kaluga Oblast
Technology museum · 1961
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28Arctic and Antarctic Museum
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
1930
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29Central Naval Museum
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
Naval museum · 1709
35Tagansky Protected Command Point
Moscow, Moscow
Military museum · 1951
37Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
Literary museum · 1988
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45Museum of Lesya Ukrainka, Yalta
Russia
1977
49Shchusev State Museum of Architecture
Moscow, Moscow
Art museum · 1934
52Azov History, Archaeology and Paleontology Museum-Reserve
Azov, Rostov
1917
53Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center
Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast
2015
55Donetsk Museum of History and Ethnography
Donetsk, Rostov
2005
57Kaliningrad Oblast Museum of Fine Arts
Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast
Art museum · 1988
58Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Arts
Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast
Art museum · 1946
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Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines
Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
Computer museum · 2007
Kinds
What the museums show
| Kind | Museums with a page |
|---|---|
| Art museum | 64 |
| Local museum | 39 |
| Historic house museum | 28 |
| Ethnographic museum | 22 |
| Military museum | 17 |
| Railway museum | 10 |
| Biographical museum | 10 |
| Open-air museum | 9 |
| Museum-reserve | 9 |
| Literary museum | 7 |
| Automobile museum | 6 |
| History museum | 6 |
| Aviation museum | 4 |
| Transport museum | 4 |