Alexander Labas: Drawings and Watercolours from the Russian Museum Collection
Alexander Labas (1900–1983) was one of the founders of the Easel Painters’ Society (OST, 1925–1932), a gr...
Benois Wing
Benois Wing
Inspired by the Classics: Neoclassicism in Russia
This exhibition is dedicated to Russian Neoclassicism, an early 20th-century art trend that, alongside avant-garde, was influential in shaping Russia...
St Michael’s Castle
Timur Novikov’s Wedge. The New Academy of Fine Arts
This exhibition commemorates 65 years since the birth of Timur Novikov (1958–2002), artist and founder of two movements – New Artists in ...
Marble Palace
Ancient Myth and the Modern World
The exhibition includes around 70 paintings and sculptures from the mid-20th century to the early 21st, taken from the Russian Museum collection and from artists’...
Stroganov Palace
The name of Stanislav Zhukovsky (1875–1944) is inseparably connected with the flourishing of lyrical landscape in the Silver Age of Russian culture.
- 27 july 2023 > Marble Palace Concert "Musical Adventures"
- 27 july—28 july 2023 > The State Russian Museum Important information for the participants of the second Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg
- 29 june 2023 > Marble Palace Pianist Vladislav Mikhalchuk in the Marble Palace
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| Mikhailovsky Palace, Benois Wing are open until 8:p.m. | |
| Tuesday | The Museum is closed |
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| 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. |
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The Mikhailovsky Garden, St. Petersburg
Metro - Gostiny Dvor, Nevsky Prospekt
Metro - Gostiny Dvor, Nevsky Prospekt
The Imperial Gardens of Russia. IX International Festival - Events
The Imperial Gardens of Russia. IX International Festival
10 june 2016—21 june 2016
Dear guests, we are glad to invite you to visit "The Imperial Gardens of Russia" IXth International Festival which will take place in the Mikhailovsky Garden from 10 to 21 june 2016.The Imperial Gardens of Russia Festival was organised with the purpose to promote historical Russian gardens and modern trends of international landscape design. With the aim of popularization both historical parks of Russian Museum and modern trends of landscape design among general public.
Now the Festival has become the annual significant event attracting about 100 000 visitors. It lasts 10 day in early June during the period of White Nights. The Festival became renowned abroad and all over Russia. Among the participants of 2016 are Great Britain, Germany, Finland, France, Denmark, Spain. At all are 50 landscaping projects.
Projects are implemented with the support of Málaga branch, British Consulate in St. Petersburg, French Cultural Institute, Danish Cultural Institute.
The 2016 exhibition and festival is named "Flowers of Life" and dedicated to the diverse, fascinating and colorful world of childhood.
Ten days of cultural and media program of Festival will be devoted to charities of St. Petersburg which will present their work on the various socially unprotected population (children and adults with cancer, autistic children, people caught in difficult life situations.
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Festival programme
General Financial Partner: OSFC Sistema, Sistema Charitable Foundation
Strategic Partner: OJSC Novatek
Financial Partners: OJSC Mobile Telesystems (MTS), Banca Intesa
Partners: Saint Petersburg Public Charity Fund of Russian Museum Palaces restoration, The “Friends of the Russian Museum” International Society, Coca-Cola Hellenic, Hennessy foundation, Ladoga Group JSC (Ladoga and IMPERIAL GOLD vodka), Inteks LLC, Andreas Stihl Marketing LLC, Institut Français Russie, Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University under name of S.M Kirov, Bushe bakery, St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television, Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg, The Royal Danish Consulate General in St. Petersburg, British Consulate-General in St Petersburg, The Consulate General of Finland in Saint Petersburg, Pietarin Suomalainen koulu, AdVITA fund, Time for help fund, Apelsin Charity, Alesha fund, Dobry Gorod Petersburg Charity, Tepliy dom Charity, V poiskah garmonii fund, Plazma Rent, Piano Bridges, Tradition fund.
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