Ukraine · Lviv
The Lviv Palace of Arts (the Palace, for short) was opened in 1996 to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine.
The Palace is a unique exhibition complex of 8,700 square metres (94,000 square feet); it is situated among architectural landmarks in the centre of Lviv.
The main purpose of the Palace is to organise activitie...
Europe · Netherlands · Amsterdam
It seems that there are no people who do not know about the legendary Madam Tussaud's wax museum. Hardly anybody does not want to visit it. The Museum is situated in England. However, it has branches in many cities of the world including Amsterdam.
Madam Tussauds Amsterdam was built in 1970. It was the first ever branch of the famous Wax Museum ...
Europe · Germany · Wurzburg
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Russia · Gus-Khrustalny
For a century and a half, the Gus Crystal Production Plant belonged to a family of nobility, the Maltsovs, who not only founded the original school of the Russian glass art and created its traditions, but were also the originators of the unique collection of the Matlsovs Museum of Crystal (the Museum, for short).
Being one of the best Russian mu...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
In the mid-17th century, the French cartographic and engineer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan said: "Ukraine is the land of the Cossacks." This is why it was decided to create the Mamayeva Sloboda Museum of Folk Architecture and Life (the Museum, for short); the Museum is a reconstructed thematic arboretum, a model of the 17th and 18th century Cos...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The Marble Palace (the Palace, for short), an architectural monument of the second half of the 18th century, was deemed by its contemporaries as "the only of its kind." Built at the location of the Post Court of Peter the Great, the Palace became a splendid "last piece" of the grand Palace Embankment along the Neva River.
Catherine the Great who...
Europe · Germany · Wurzburg
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Russia · Moscow
The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (the Museum, for short) was ceremonially opened on 10th April 1981 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin. The Museum occupies the base of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, one of the most famous Moscow monuments.
The Museum was conceived by the Russian Chief...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The Menshikov Palace, situated on Vasilyevsky Island, was the first monumental residence built from stone in St. Petersburg. The Palace was built for Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov who was a Prince of the Russian Empire and a very close associate of Peter the Great.
In 1687, Aleksandr Menshikov, the barely literate son of a groomsman, became a s...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The Mikhailovsky Castle or the Engineer Castle also called the St. Michael's Castle is the largest monument of architecture closing the history of the 18th century St. Petersburg architecture. It replaced the Summer Palace of Empress Elizabeth (by architect Francesko Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1740s) disassembled by order of Emperor Paul I immediately...
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