# The best museums in Saint Petersburg

The Hermitage, the Russian Museum and Grand Maket: the city's museums recommended by guides and locals.

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- Nov 16, 2023 · Ирина
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## Top 12

1. **State Hermitage Museum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Winter Palace and three million exhibits.
2. **Russian Museum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The largest collection of Russian art, in the Mikhailovsky Palace.
3. **Kunstkamera** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Russia's first museum, founded by Peter the Great.
4. **Fabergé Museum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Imperial Easter eggs in the Shuvalov Palace.
5. **Grand Maket Rossiya** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A giant miniature model of the whole country.
6. **Erarta** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Contemporary art museum on Vasilyevsky Island.
7. **Peter and Paul Fortress** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cathedral with the tsars' tombs and city history museums.
8. **St Isaac's Cathedral** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cathedral-museum with a colonnade viewpoint.
9. **Yusupov Palace** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Moika palace where Rasputin was killed.
10. **Central Naval Museum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One of the country's oldest naval museums.
11. **Russian Museum of Ethnography** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Peoples of Russia from costumes to dwellings.
12. **Peterhof** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Palaces and fountains on the Gulf of Finland.

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