Vasily Sadovnikov. A Watercolorist of the Pushkin Era
In 2025, we commemorate the 225th anniversary of the birth of Vasily Sadovnikov (1800–1879), one of Russia’s most renowned watercolourist...
Russian Imperial Table Services
The exhibition is dedicated to tableware sets commissioned by the emperor’s family and crafted at the Imperial Porcelain Factory. On display are ceremonial fine chin...
Ivan Pokhitonov. 175th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
For the first time in St Petersburg, the Russian Museum presents an exhibition of the outstanding Russian landscape and realist painter Ivan P...
The Country of Victories: 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
The 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War is a time to honour the heroes of all generations. ...
The exhibition explores the presence of dogs in Russian life and art. It addresses a historical process in all its forms – from the history of the state to the narrativ...
- 26 March 2025 > Stroganov Palace New timetable in the Stroganov Palace from March 26 till April 24.
- 25 February 2025 > The State Russian Museum Important information for February 25
- 30 December 2024—8 January 2025 > The State Russian Museum Happy New 2025 Year!
Ancient Art of XIV-XVII Centuries
Permanent exhibition
Collection of the Old Russian painting of the Russian Museum is one of the largest and most significant in Russia. It includes around six thousand icons. The permanent exhibition housed in the first four halls of Mikhailovsky Palace represents a part of this collection, the most valuable works of XII-XVII centuries created in the major art centers of Old Russia: Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir, Suzdal, Moscow, and Yaroslavl.
- Permanent exhibition Russian Art of the XVIII Century
- Permanent exhibition Russian Art of the First Half of the XIX Century
- Permanent exhibition Russian Art of the Second Half of the XIX Century
- Permanent exhibition Folk Art of the XVII-XXI Centuries
Russian Imperial Table Services
25 April—1 September 2025
The exhibition is dedicated to tableware sets commissioned by the emperor’s family and crafted at the Imperial Porcelain Factory. On display are ceremonial fine china services – around 200 pieces in total – including those created for specific imperial and grand ducal residences, as well as for special occasions such as coronations and weddings.
- Permanent exhibition Mineral Study
- Permanent exhibition Russian Empire Style. Applied Art of the Epoch of Alexander I (1801–1825)
Poet of the Silver age - Konstantin Romanov
Permanent exhibition
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich was an accomplished Russian poet, who wrote under the cryptonym K. R. and was an excellent translator of Goethe, Schiller and Shakespeare’s works. He was the son of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich and grandson of emperor Nocholas I, and also a senator and a president of the Academy of Sciences. He inherited the Marble palace in 1888.
- Permanent exhibition The Rzhevsky Brothers Collection
The Country of Victories: 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
8 May—7 July 2025
The 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War is a time to honour the heroes of all generations. They come to life for us through the talent and legacy of artists whose works embody both profound love for their people and deep empathy for the destiny of their Motherland. The exhibition features over 200 works of various forms and genres, depicting the most significant and decisive historical battles of Russia.
- 21 December 2024—23 June 2025 Viktor Vasnetsov. 175th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
- Permanent exhibition Art of the XXth Century
- Permanent exhibition Decorative and Applied Arts in Russia. ХХ century
- Permanent exhibition Art of the End of XIXth – Begining of XXth Century
Ivan Pokhitonov. 175th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
30 April—18 August 2025
For the first time in St Petersburg, the Russian Museum presents an exhibition of the outstanding Russian landscape and realist painter Ivan Pokhitonov (1850–1923). The exhibition features about 150 works, including paintings, drawings, and works of decorative and applied art. Visitors will discover Ivan Pokhitonov not only as a landscape painter but also as a genre artist, portraitist, and creator of ceramic paintings.
- 5 April—14 July 2025 Vasily Sadovnikov. A Watercolorist of the Pushkin Era
- 20 December 2024—16 June 2025 300th Anniversary of the Academy of Sciences. Illustrated Academic Publications of the Mid-18th Century from the Collection of the Russian Museum
- 5 December 2024—31 May 2025 Russian Academic Painting of the Second Half of the 18th – First Half of the 19th Centuries
- Permanent exhibition St.Petersburg Society During the Romanov Era
Modern exhibition of Cabin of Peter the Great
Permanent exhibition
Modern exhibition of the museum comprises items dating back to Peter I’s time, including memorial paraphernalia, such as: red broadcloth uniform, an oriental cane, a model of Peter I’s hand based on an imprint made at Lipetsk foundry in 1707, a wherry, and Peter’s armchair.
Ceremonial halls of St Michael’s Castle
On 19 May 2021, the ceremonial halls of St Michael’s Castle opened after major restoration. On 31 August 1951, the premises of the ceremonial halls of Empero...
Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century: From Pablo Picasso to Vladimir Yankilevsky
The exhibition Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century: From Pablo Picasso to Vladimir Yankilevsky combines w...
Russian Art of the Second Half of the XIX Century
Even when it first opened back in 1898, the Russian Museum owned many canvases painted by such masters of the second half of the nineteenth century a...
Russian Art of the First Half of the XIX Century
The exhibition shows masterpieces representing the variety of trends in the Russian art of the time (classicism, romantism and beginning i...
Ancient Art of XIV-XVII Centuries
Collection of the Old Russian painting of the Russian Museum is one of the largest and most significant in Russia. It includes around six thousand icons. The ...
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26.03.2025
New timetable in the Stroganov Palace from March 26 till April 24.
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25.02.2025
The State Russian Museum
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30.12.2024—08.01.2025
The State Russian Museum
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You can subscribe for the lectures in the ticket offices of the museum.
To purchase classes for individual groups of students, given according to special programs by a lecturer who will come to the school or another institute, please call: +7 (812) 570-52-23, +7 (812) 570-56-91.
All lectures are given in Russian.
The collection of masterpieces, chosen by the Russian Museum will allow you to make a first impression of the collection of the Russian Museum.
Russian Museum - one of the world's largest museums and is perhaps the only country where such a full treasure of national culture are presented.
Virtual tour of the museum complex. 2009 (Rus., Eng., Ger., Fin.)
In the online shop of the Russian Museum presented a huge range of souvenirs, illustrated editions and multimedia disks.
