Russia · Moscow
The Museum was founded in 1894 by the famous industrialist and art patron Alexey Alexandrovich Bakhrushin (1865–1929) and based on his private collection of theatrical and manuscript memorabilia collected in the end of the 19th century.
In 1913, the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences donated the Museum, renowned as the Alexey Bakhrushin Museum...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The A. S. Popov Central Museum of Communications (the Museum, for short), one of the oldest museums of science and technology in the world, is located in the historic centre of St. Petersburg, near Isaac Square. The unique museum collection devoted to the evolution history of Russian communication means comprises more than 8,000,000 items.
The r...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
The A. S. Pushkin Museum was opened in May 1999, in Kiev, the day before the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet. The exposition is based on a collection of Yakov Berdichevsky, the Kiever and Pushkin scholar. When he left to move to Germany, he gifted his collection to the city with proviso that a museum would be established.
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Mediterranean Sea · Greece · Athens
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Black Sea · Ukraine · Feodosiya
In 1845, Ivan Aivazovsky acquired a plot in the outskirts of Feodosiya, on the very seashore. He decided to build a house with a big art studio and dreamed to establish a school of painting there.
The same year, 1845, the first exhibition comprising 49 works was opened in a part of the house.
In his new Feodosiya studio Aivazovsky created one...
Europe · Austria · Vienna
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Baltic Sea · Russia · Pushkin
A two-hundred year old palace is situated in the midst of picturesque scenery within the architectural ensemble of Tsarskoye Selo in the north part of Alexander Park. This is the Alexander or New Palace of Tsarskoye Selo. It was founded in 1792 by the order of Catherine II and presented to her first and favorite grandson Grand Duke Alexander Pavlov...
Russia · Moscow
The State Museum of Applied and Folk Arts was opened on the 21st of July, 1981. This is the only Russian museum devoted to the history and current state of native decorative applied and folk arts, the large scientific centre that collects, studies and makes arts of the multinational county popular.
The Museum is situated in the most beautiful bu...
Black Sea · Ukraine · Sevastopol
The Sevstopol Sea Water Aquarium-Museum (the Aquarium, for short) is one of the oldest public aquariums in Europe and the oldest sea water aquarium. It was established in 1897 by the Sevastopol Biological Station. It is not just the oldest Russian station but the fifth one in the world by time of its foundation.
The idea of the Aquarium creation...
Mediterranean Sea · Greece · Nafplion
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