The Kunstkamera Museum Admission Ticket

Visit: The Kunstkamera, Universitetskaya Emb., 3 Entrance from Tamozhenny Lane, St. Petersburg 199034 Russia

The Kunstkamera was the first museum in Russia. Established by Peter the Great and completed in 1727. Kunstkamera Building hosts the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. It is the collection of almost 2,000,000 items. Peter's museum was a cabinet of curiosities dedicated to preserving "natural and human curiosities and rarities". The Tsar's personal collection, originally stored in the Summer Palace, features a large assortment of human and animal fetuses with anatomical deficiencies.
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) celebrated its 300 anniversary in 2014. One of the richest ethnographical museums in the world, it is a scholarly center of an international fame. The museum's unique collections, acquired through the efforts of thousands of persons, participants of the great academic expeditions, circumnavigations of the Russian fleet, and numerous donators, are rightfully admired both in this country and abroad. Indeed, they were assembled by entire Russia, and today the nation is proud of its first museum.