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      Holograms, a telegraph and New Holland's frigate

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 4.3 km🍽 3📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Hands-on science: the mirror maze of the Museum of Optics, the first telephones at the Museum of Communications and a frigate-shaped playground.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
      👶 7–12, 13+ years · ✗ hard with a stroller

      Lifts at the Museum of Optics and the Bezborodko mansion (Museum of Communications) are unconfirmed — inside there are stairs. The route is inconvenient for a baby in a stroller.

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        🖼 ITMO Optics Museum
        Биржевая линия, 14
        🎟 ticket
        An interactive museum in the building of the former Optical Institute: holograms, a mirror maze, optical toys, a glass hall.
        Start at opening, 11:00 (closed Mon). Ages 7–12 love the mirror maze, holograms and the glowing corridor most; the tour lasts about an hour, schedule at the ticket office.
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        ITMO Optics Museum
        © ITMO University · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The ITMO interactive optics museum opened in 2008 on the ground floor of the former house of the merchant Grigory Eliseyev.
        • The Eliseyev apartment building was built in 1884 by the architect A. K. Bruni, and from the 1920s to the 1990s the State Optical Institute worked here.
        • Some of the holograms in the museum were made in the days of Yuri Denisyuk, the founder of optical holography, who worked in this building.
        • The 11 halls include optical clones of Fabergé pieces, among them his Easter eggs, and a collection of optical glass.
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        ☕️ Stolle on the 1st Line
        1-я линия В.О., 50
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        Lunch is 10 minutes away: get a couple of different pies to share — one sweet, one with meat — and a fruit drink (mors).
        🍴 A pie shop of the Petersburg Stolle chain (since 2002): pies by old Russian recipes, whole or by the slice, sweet and savoury. What to order: a mushroom pie, a fish pie, a chocolate pie.
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        🖼 Popov Central Museum of Communications
        Почтамтская ул., 7 (вход с Почтамтского пер., 4)
        🎟 ticket
        The Bezborodko mansion: post sleighs, a semaphore telegraph, the first telephones and radios. Tue–Sun 10:30–18:00, ticket office until 17:30.
        25 minutes across the Blagoveshchensky Bridge. Mail sleighs, Chappe's telegraph and the first telephones; some exhibits can be touched. Ticket office until 17:30, closed on Mondays.
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        Popov Central Museum of Communications
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Popov Central Museum of Communications
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum was founded on 11 September 1872 as the Telegraph Museum — one of the oldest science and technology museums in the world.
        • Until 1917 the museum was a closed departmental one, and it opened to the public only in 1924 as the Museum of People's Communications.
        • The museum occupies the former palace of Chancellor A. A. Bezborodko, Postmaster General.
        • It holds A. S. Popov's first radio receiver-lightning detector and the first civilian communications satellite, Luch-15.
        • From 1974 the museum was closed for almost 30 years because the building was in disrepair, and it reopened on 19 December 2003.
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        🍽 Teplo restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Б. Морская ул., 45
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        Teplo is 100 m from the Museum of Communications: lunch with a kids' room between the museum and New Holland; book a table in advance.
        🍴 A living-room restaurant in the House of Composers: several cosy rooms with a homey feel, home cooking and their own baking. What to order: chicken liver salad, draniki with salmon, a curd cheese bake, the “Aunt Tanya” sponge cake.
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      9. 5
        🌳 New Holland Island
        наб. Адмиралтейского канала, 2
        🚪 entrance from the Admiralty Canal Embankment
        🆓 free entry · The island is free; some exhibitions and events are ticketed
        An 18th-century artificial island with brick timber warehouses, lawns, cafés and a pond.
        A wooden ship-playground by the pond — you can climb on it even in October. Benches and toilets are in the island's buildings.
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        New Holland Island
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        New Holland Island
        © Anders98en · CC BY-SA 4.0
        New Holland Island
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The island appeared in 1719, when the Kryukov and Admiralty canals were dug for shipbuilders; its area is 7.8 ha.
        • The name comes from the warehouses of ship timber, which was dried the Dutch way — standing upright.
        • Vallin de la Mothe's arch over the canal to the inner basin was built in 1779–1787; it is 23 metres high.
        • The round naval prison building from the 1820s was nicknamed the “bottle” — it is said to be the origin of the Russian idiom for flying off the handle.
        • In the 1894 experimental basin, the shipbuilder Alexey Krylov carried out experiments on ship unsinkability.
        • During the First World War the most powerful radio station in Russia, belonging to the naval staff, worked here.
        • Until December 2004 the island was occupied by Baltic Fleet services, and it was closed to the public.
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        🍜 Restaurants and cafés in the “Bottle” (New Holland)
        наб. Адмиралтейского канала, 2, лит. Т (Новая Голландия)
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        Hot chocolate and dessert in the warmth — in the round building of the former prison.
        🍴 The ground floor of the round “Bottle” building on New Holland Island is filled with cafés and street food from different cuisines, with tables in the courtyard in summer. What to order: shawarma on a plate and hummus at Bekitzer, udon and fried bananas with ice cream at Hagao.

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