Mikhail Makhayev’s St Petersburg
14 october 2022—13 february 2023
The sketches and drawings of Mikhail Makhayev (1717–1770), the great Russian 18th-century veduta master, are the only way we have of appreciating St Petersb...
St Michael’s Castle
Benois Wing
Images of Military Life in Russian Art from the 16th to the 20th Centuries
Images of Military Life is an extensive exhibition featuring icons, paintings, sculptures, and applied and decorative artwor...
Benois Wing
Home and Family. Images of Peaceful Life
The Russian Museum exhibition project Artists on War and Peace can be seen as a diptych comprised of two exhibitions: Images of Military Life in Russian Art...
St Michael’s Castle
Drawings and Watercolours of the 18th century
23 december 2022—27 march 2023
This exhibition offers visitors the rare opportunity to appreciate the more interesting and notable specimens of 18th century drawing and watercolour f...
Stroganov Palace
This exhibition celebrates 150 years since the birth of Konstantin Fyodorovich Bogayevsky (1872–1943), one of the most prominent artists of Russia’s Silver Age. A pupi...
Marble Palace
Natalia Zemlyanaya. World Creation. Painting and Graphic Art
St Petersburg artist Natalia Zemlyanaya’s solo exhibition features approximately 80 of her paintings and pastels from the 1990s and 2000s.
Mikhailovsky Palace
The exhibition in the Garden Vestibule of the Mikhailovsky ...
- 22 december 2022 > Marble Palace Concert "Orchestra without a conductor".
- 15 december 2022 > St Michael’s Castle New timetable in St. Michael's Castle. December 15
- 9 december 2022 > St Michael’s Castle New timetable in St. Michael's Castle. December 09.
Opening hours
| Monday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Mikhailovsky Palace, Benois Wing are open until 8:p.m. | |
| Tuesday | The Museum is closed |
| Wednesday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Sunday | 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Ticket offices close 30 minutes earlier
Getting here
2 Sadovaya Str., St. Petersburg
Metro - Gostiny Dvor, Nevsky Prospekt
New timetable in St. Michael's Castle from May 12 to May 18 - Events
New timetable in St. Michael's Castle from May 12 to May 18
12 may 2018—18 may 2018
Dear guests!From May 12 to May 18 the courtyard of St. Michaels Castle will be closed due to technical reasons.
On May 17 Open fund of sculpture from 18th to 19th century will be closed due to technical reasons.
Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences.
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