The most interesting museums of Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad is a city with a very visiblecultural life, the activity of which is reflected in the number of museums, of which there are quite a few. And as old, with a rich heritage, and recently opened, with the newest history. This is an indication that the museums of Kaliningrad not only preserve traditions, but multiply and develop. Kaliningrad offers its inhabitants and guests of the city a museum-oriented event for any, even the most demanding, taste.
Museum of the World Ocean
It is both a museum and a scientific center,which has in its arsenal the world's only space communication vessel Cosmonaut Viktor Patsaev. Visiting this museum, you can find out all the facts known to science about the flora and fauna of the world's ocean, and also about the history of Russian flotation.
The museum organizes thematic exhibitions andexpositions that give an idea of the iconic events in a difficult but extremely important and interesting work on human exploration of the World Ocean. And only here you can go aboard one of the research ships to learn about its basics.
Address: embankment of Peter the Great, 1.
Cost of visit: each object has its own ticket for an adult costs from 50 to 400 rubles, depending on the object and type of excursion.
Working hours: from 10.00 to 18.00, weekends - Monday and Tuesday.
Friedland Gate
This is one of the surviving old city gates, and today in their premises is a historical and local history museum.
Permanent exhibition, which occupies one of the halls,consists of items dated by different times, but connected by one place that was once foreign, but later became Russian. Household items from different eras - coffee grinders, utensils, various kitchen utensils, sewing machines and even a collection of beer bottles.
A separate room was given to the collection of smallweapons produced in Europe during the First and Second World War. The Museum of Local Lore conducts exchange exhibitions and vernissages, as well as all other museums in Kaliningrad. Photo of the evenings by the fireplace in the small hall, where literature and music meetings are held with candles, are often found in the local press, these events attract a lot of the public.
Address: st. Dzerzhinsky, 30
Cost of visit: for adults, the ticket costs 200 rubles, preschoolers - 30 rubles, and for schoolchildren and students - 100.
Working hours: daily from 10.00 to 18.00.
Art Gallery
It was founded in 1988, but thenwas the name of the Museum of Modern Art. Today, the gallery's main expositions are samples of official and alternative trends in Soviet painting, the work of Russian and foreign graphics, contemporary art of artists from the Baltic countries, samples of folk crafts from all over Russia. Separately it is worth mentioning and art objects from East Prussia until 1945.
In addition to the main exposition, the gallery, like other art museums in Kaliningrad, participates in the projects "Museum Night", youth and children's festivals.
Address: Moscow avenue, d. 60-62
Cost of visit: depending on the exhibition and exposition, prices vary from 30 to 250 rubles.
Operating mode: Monday - closed, Thursday - from 10.00 to 21.00, other days - from 10.00 to 18.00.
Amber Museum
The building of the museum is a historicalInteresting sight: in the middle of the XIX century it was a bastion of the Don (in honor of the military commander General Friedrich zu Don). At the end of the Second World War, for many years there were only ruins on the site of the bastion, but in 1977 the Soviet authorities began to rebuild the building, and in late 1979 the world's first Amber Museum was opened in the reconstructed building.
Now in the museum you can find out the historythe origin of the fishery and the aspects of amber mining, to inspect unique exhibits, including amber nuggets with inclusions, amber jewelery and gorgeous gold and silver jewelry with amber.
Address: pl. Marshal Vasilevsky, 1
Cost of visit: adults - 200 rubles, students - 100, schoolchildren - 80.
Operating mode: from October to April - from 10.00 to 18.00, except Monday; the rest of the time - without days off, from 10.00 to 19.00.
The Kant Museum
The construction of the cathedral, in whose buildingis a museum, it was started in the 14th century on the Kneiphoff skeleton and was conducted for fifty years. Today, many museums in Kaliningrad, including the Kant Museum, are interesting not only for their collection, but also for the history of the building itself. So, the cathedral itself is a historical landmark of the city.
Construction began with Bishop Johannes Claret. Subsequently, a clock with a bell ringing was installed on the cathedral tower. In the altar there are the tombs of the rulers of Prussia, belonging to the Hohenzollern dynasty. At its walls, in a sarcophagus of dark granite, surrounded by twelve columns, the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant also rests. In the museum of his name are collected exhibits reflecting his era, telling about the legacy of the philosopher and his life.
With the exception of small restoration works andSome architectural buildings added to the ensemble at a later time, the cathedral looked unchanged from the end of construction to the assault on the city of Königsberg in April 1944, when the historic building was seriously damaged. Many years after the end of the war, as a result of a long and large-scale restoration, the cathedral again became operational, and in 1991 the first service was held within its walls.
Address: st. I. Kant, 1.
Cost of visit: adults - 150, students and students - 100 r.
Working hours: from Monday to Thursday - from 10 to 18, on other days the museum closes an hour later.
Altes Haus Amalienau
In Kaliningrad, there are many houses and apartments,They were able to preserve the almost lost spirit of the old Koenigsberg. One of the most interesting is in the house number 12 on Pugacheva street. In this apartment are preserved not only the walls in dilapidated wallpaper, wallpaper, the ceiling with authentic painting, a hundred years ago laid larch floor, the original interior doors. In addition, the interior of the apartment itself is selected so that you can plunge into the authentic atmosphere, typical for the citizens of the early XX century.
On an excursion to "Amalienau" is most convenientto come in groups. And for a fee you can order a tea party in the apartment, because due to the fact that this private collection, here is possible something that other museums in Kaliningrad will not offer. The mode of the apartment is daily from 15:00, but it is necessary to call the owners in advance.
Address: st. Pugacheva, 12.
Cost of visit: depends on the number of people on the tour.
Museum "Bunker Lyash"
Not all museums in Kaliningrad are in the oldbuildings. Museum "Bunker" is located in a reinforced concrete bomb shelter, equipped in February 1945. It was in this underground bunker that the act of surrendering the Konigsberg garrison was signed. The atmosphere and atmosphere of that time are completely preserved in the bunker. In the museum you can visit the updated thematic expositions.
Address: University Street, 2a.
Cost of visit: the entrance ticket costs 100 rubles.
Operating mode: daily from 10 to 18, day off - Monday.
Of course, this is not all museums in Kaliningrad, let alonealready about those that are located in the region. However, being in Kaliningrad, visit at least a few of this list - impressions and new knowledge will definitely remain mass.
