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      🖼 Kunstkamera

      Университетская наб., 3

      A turquoise building with an openwork tower — Peter's anatomical rarities and the ethnography of the world's peoples.

      Kunstkamera
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      • The founding date is considered to be 1714, when Peter's collection was placed in the Chambers by the Summer Palace.
      • The present Petrine Baroque building was built from 1718 to 1734, begun by Georg Mattarnovy.
      • Peter bought the anatomical collection of over 2,000 items in 1717 from the Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch.
      • Peter's decree of 1718 promised a reward for delivering “monsters” and unusual things and threatened a fine for hiding them.
      • In the fire of 5 December 1747 the tower, the observatory and the interior finishes burned; the building was restored by Savva Chevakinsky.
      • Mikhail Lomonosov worked in the building — a separate exhibition is devoted to him, with the Academy of Sciences' meeting hall.
      • The tower is crowned with an armillary sphere — a model of the celestial sphere made of rings.

      Part of these routes

      • Vasilyevsky Spit: Kunstkamera and sphinxes
      • Whales and curiosities: Zoological Museum and Kunstkamera
      • Two banks of the Neva: from Petrogradka to Kolomna
      • All of Vasilyevsky: from the Strelka to the bay
      • Scientific Petersburg: Mendeleev, soils, a whale and the stars
      • The Strelka and Vasilyevsky: a big day with kids
      • The Spit, the Twelve Collegia and Menshikov Palace

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