🖼 Academy of Arts Museum

Университетская наб., 17

A museum in the Academy of Arts building: casts of ancient statues that students learned from, paintings from the historical collection and big wooden models of Petersburg's cathedrals and palaces. Quiet, spacious and almost without queues.

The Academy building was built in 1764–1788 to a design by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe and Alexander Kokorinov.
The museum appeared with the Academy itself in 1758 — future artists and architects were taught to draw from it.
On the first floor are the department of casts of ancient sculpture and models of ancient architectural monuments.
On the third floor is “The Architecture of 18th–19th-century Petersburg” in models, drawings and blueprints.
In front of the Academy on the embankment stand Egyptian sphinxes, installed in 1834.

Part of these routes

Vasilyevsky in the rain: Menshikov, the Academy, the market