Apothecary Island under an umbrella

⏱ 3 h 40 min🚶 1.2 km + 🚕🍽 1📍 4 stops

🐢 A little — under 3 km

A rainy day on Petrogradka: old toys in a small museum, lunch with a kids' room and a play pen for toddlers in the indoor Mouse House.

👶 With kids☔️ If it rains

👶 under 3, 3–6 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

Petrogradskaya has no lift — come by taxi. The Toy Museum and Tyoplye Kraya have no accessible facilities: leave the stroller at the entrance, or staff will help. River House mall has a lift.

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🖼 Toy Museum
наб. реки Карповки, 32 (вход с ул. Всеволода Вишневского, 22)
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A small private museum with toys from different eras — from rag dolls to Soviet toy cars; little ones enjoy looking, adults enjoy remembering.
Easier to get here by taxi. Opens at 11:00, closed on Mondays. Enter from Vishnevskogo Street. Half an hour is enough: the baby looks at dolls and toy cars, you at your own childhood toys.
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- The museum was founded in May 1997 and became Russia's second toy museum after the one in Sergiev Posad.
- It is one of Petersburg's first non-state museums and lives on donations.
- The museum's collection has more than 17 thousand items — handmade and factory toys from different countries.
🚶 on foot
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🚶 Karpovka Embankment
A narrow river with granite embankments and trees, winding through the Petrogradskaya Side.
If the rain has eased — 10 minutes along the Karpovka to the restaurant, just the time for a stroller nap. If it's pouring — a taxi.
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- The Karpovka is an arm of the Neva 3 km long and about 20 m wide, between Petrogradsky and Aptekarsky islands.
- The name is a corruption of the Finnish Korpijoki, translated both as “forest” and as “crow” river.
- The banks of the Karpovka were faced with granite only in the 1960s–70s.
- No. 13 is the first residential building of the Leningrad Soviet (1932–1935, architects Levinson and Fomin), a model of Constructivism.
- In 2021 the sculpture “Sad Angel” appeared by the Medical University, in memory of medics who died of coronavirus.
🚶 on foot
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🍽 Restaurant "Teplye Kraya" · 🧸 play area
пр. Медиков, 5, лит. В
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Lunch from 12:00: a kids' room, with a nanny on weekends. Ask for a high chair and to have your own purée warmed up.
🍴 A family restaurant on Apothecary Island with a children's room (with a nanny on weekends) and its own kids' club. What to order: chicken noodles, corn soup and lasagne; for a toddler, soup and pasta from the children's menu.
🚕 taxi ≈5 min
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✨ Mouse House Children's Resto-Park
ул. Академика Павлова, 5В (ТК «River House», 2-й этаж)
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An indoor children's park with a restaurant: slides, trampolines, a soft floor and a separate play pen for kids under 3 with a ball pit and an obstacle course (updated in 2026).
After the nap — to the play pen for kids under 3: slides, a ball pit, a soft floor. River House mall has a lift; ask the price of entry by phone — it changes.