Государственный музей истории Санкт-Петербурга
state museum of the history
of St.PETERSBURG
+7 (812) 230-64-31
THE MUSEUM
  • History of the Museum
  • Museum complex
    • Peter and Paul fortress
      • Interactive map
      • History
      • Photo gallery
      • 3D panoramas
      • Web cams
    • Oreshek Fortress
      • Map
      • History
      • Photo gallery
    • Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
      • History
      • Photo gallery
    • Sergey Kirov Museum
      • History
      • Sergey Kirov Collection
      • Publications
      • Photo gallery
      • Sergey Kirov museum website
    • Rumyantsev Mansion
      • History
      • Photo gallery
    • Alexander Blok Museum
      • History
      • Photo gallery
    • Museum of Printing
      • History
      • Photo gallery
    • St Petersburg Museum of Avant-garde (Matyushin's House)
      • History
      • Photo gallery
  • News
  • Management
  • Cooperation
    • Other museum collaboration
    • Partners
  • Event organization
  • Documents
  • Archive
TO VISITORS
  • Virtual tour
  • Admission
  • Opening hours
  • Buy tickets online
  • Getting here
  • Accessible environment
  • Benefits and rights
  • Accompanying services
  • Souvenirs
  • Appeals of citizens
  • FAQ
EXHIBITS & EXHIBITIONS
  • Permanent displays
  • Temporary exhibitions
  • Routes
  • Exhibition aboard
EVENTS
  • Events
  • Ceremony
PROGRAMMES
  • Lectures
  • For children
  • Guided tours
  • Virtual Reality
FOR SPECIALISTS
  • Conferences
  • Museum internship
  • Scientific Library
  • Scientific and departmental archive
  • Restoration and reconstruction
PUBLICATIONS
  • Elecronic library
COLLECTIONS
  • Access to funds
  • Tariffs
  • Appeal to the donors
  • Interesting Facts
    Государственный музей истории Санкт-Петербурга
    THE MUSEUM
    • History of the Museum
    • Museum complex
      • Peter and Paul fortress
        • Interactive map
        • History
        • Photo gallery
        • 3D panoramas
        • Web cams
      • Oreshek Fortress
        • Map
        • History
        • Photo gallery
      • Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
        • History
        • Photo gallery
      • Sergey Kirov Museum
        • History
        • Sergey Kirov Collection
        • Publications
        • Photo gallery
        • Sergey Kirov museum website
      • Rumyantsev Mansion
        • History
        • Photo gallery
      • Alexander Blok Museum
        • History
        • Photo gallery
      • Museum of Printing
        • History
        • Photo gallery
      • St Petersburg Museum of Avant-garde (Matyushin's House)
        • History
        • Photo gallery
    • News
    • Management
    • Cooperation
      • Other museum collaboration
      • Partners
    • Event organization
    • Documents
    • Archive
    TO VISITORS
    • Virtual tour
    • Admission
    • Opening hours
    • Buy tickets online
    • Getting here
    • Accessible environment
    • Benefits and rights
    • Accompanying services
    • Souvenirs
    • Appeals of citizens
    • FAQ
    EXHIBITS & EXHIBITIONS
    • Permanent displays
    • Temporary exhibitions
    • Routes
    • Exhibition aboard
    EVENTS
    • Events
    • Ceremony
    PROGRAMMES
    • Lectures
    • For children
    • Guided tours
    • Virtual Reality
    FOR SPECIALISTS
    • Conferences
    • Museum internship
    • Scientific Library
    • Scientific and departmental archive
    • Restoration and reconstruction
    PUBLICATIONS
    • Elecronic library
    COLLECTIONS
    • Access to funds
    • Tariffs
    • Appeal to the donors
    • Interesting Facts
      Государственный музей истории Санкт-Петербурга
      • МУЗЕЙ
        • Назад
        • МУЗЕЙ
        • History of the Museum
        • Museum complex
          • Назад
          • Museum complex
          • Peter and Paul fortress
            • Назад
            • Peter and Paul fortress
            • Interactive map
            • History
            • History burnings
            • Photo gallery
          • Oreshek Fortress
          • Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Museum
            • Назад
            • Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Museum
            • History
            • Photo gallery
          • Sergey Kirov Museum
            • Назад
            • Sergey Kirov Museum
            • History
            • Sergey Kirov Collection
            • Publications
            • Photo gallery
            • Sergey Kirov museum website
          • Rumyantsev Mansion
            • Назад
            • Rumyantsev Mansion
            • History
            • Photo gallery
          • Alexander Blok Museum
            • Назад
            • Alexander Blok Museum
            • History
            • Photo gallery
          • Museum of Printing
            • Назад
            • Museum of Printing
            • History
            • Photo gallery
          • St Petersburg Museum of Avant-garde (Matyushin's House)
            • Назад
            • St Petersburg Museum of Avant-garde (Matyushin's House)
            • History
            • Photo gallery
        • Contacts
        • Management
        • Board of Trustees
        • News
        • Cooperation
          • Назад
          • Cooperation
          • Other museum collaboration
          • Partners
            • Назад
            • Partners
            • Russian partners
            • Information partners
        • Additional services
          • Назад
          • Additional services
          • Events organization
          • Fund's services
        • About museum
          • Назад
          • About museum
          • Constituent documents
          • Financial and economic documents
          • Stop corruption
          • Antimonopoly compliance
          • Occupational safety and health
          • Auction
          • Rent
          • Constituent documents
        • Archive
      • ПОСЕТИТЕЛЯМ
        • Назад
        • ПОСЕТИТЕЛЯМ
        • Virtual tour
        • Admission
        • Opening hours
        • Buy tickets online
        • Getting here
        • Accessible environment
        • Benefits and rights
        • Accompanying services
        • Souvenirs
        • Appeals of citizens
        • FAQ
      • ЭКСПОЗИЦИИ и ВЫСТАВКИ
        • Назад
        • ЭКСПОЗИЦИИ и ВЫСТАВКИ
        • Permanent displays
        • Temporary exhibitions
        • Routes
        • Exhibition aboard
      • СОБЫТИЯ
        • Назад
        • СОБЫТИЯ
        • Events
        • Ceremony
      • ПРОГРАММЫ
        • Назад
        • ПРОГРАММЫ
        • Lectures
        • For children
        • Guided tours
        • Virtual Reality
      • СПЕЦИАЛИСТАМ
        • Назад
        • СПЕЦИАЛИСТАМ
        • Conferences
        • Museum internship
        • Scientific Library
        • Scientific and departmental archive
        • Guides and translation guides
        • Restoration and reconstruction
      • ИЗДАНИЯ
        • Назад
        • ИЗДАНИЯ
        • Научные сборники
        • Альбомы
        • Каталоги
        • Издания к выставкам
        • Путеводители
        • Книги
        • Издания для детей
        • Мультимедийные
        • Буклеты
        • На иностранных языках
        • АРХИВ
      • ФОНДЫ
        • Назад
        • ФОНДЫ
        • Access to funds
        • Tariffs
        • Appeal to the donors
        • Interesting Facts

      Decorative and applied arts

      • Main
      • Collections
      • Artefacts
      • Decorative and applied arts
      • Furniture
        Furniture 26
        About 4500 items.
        Russian household furniture of the XIX-XX centuries forms the bulk of the collection. The most valuable group are the items produced at the famous St. Petersburg furniture workshops: G. Gambs, F.F.Melzer, G.V.Buchtger, S.P.Zimin, as well as the items, based on sketches by famous architects L. Ruska, V. Stasov.

        The collection also includes ... ↓ bent furniture by following companies — "Thonet Brothers” (нем. “Gebrüder Thonet” ), " Jacob & Josef Kohn", "Wojciechow".

        The collection features unique artworks. These are the items made in the "marquetry" technique, items decorated with artistic bronze casting and carving.

        Our furniture collection allows us to create a variety of interiors for the exhibitions and expositions, demonstrates a variety of shapes, designs, artistic decoration. ↑
      • Lighting fixtures
        Lighting fixtures 14
        More than 800 items.
        This section of the collection is varied in composition. It includes products made of gilded or patinated bronze, intended for the decoration of the front interiors, and utilitarian lighting of the the most common types: candlesticks, chandeliers, sconces, lanterns, floor lamps made of different materials (metal, porcelain, glass, wood, stone).
        ... ↓
        The chronological scope of the section – the end of XVIII - the second half of the XX century. The collection includes products of factories and workshops of I.A. Kumberg, F. Melzer, A. Makarov, Vishnevsky Brothers, I. Serkovsky and others.

        Also in the collection there are items from the Western Europe, mostly with stamps of the Berlin firms - Carl Holy, Ehrich&Graetz, Schneider, Brenner.

        An extremely varied collection of kerosene lamps in the forms of cups or bowls with relief decoration, in the forms of vases made of colored laminated glass with polychrome paintings is stored in the fund.

        The collection of electric lighting of the modern period (end of XIX - beginning of XX centuries) is of great interest. These are table lamps or chandeliers decorated with inlays of colored glass. ↑
      • Clocks and watches
        Clocks and watches 18
        More than 400 units.
        This section of the collection of objects of decorative art presents a variety of clocks — table, floor, wall clocks and wrist watches.

        In the collection you can see the clocks made in the XVIII–XX centuries by the West-European manufacturers and also by the companies that had stores and branches in St. Petersburg (P. Buhre, F. Winter, ... ↓ H.Moser, Lenzkirch) together with the watches made by the main Russian watchmaking industry — the Petrodvorets Watch Factory, the First and Second Moscow Watch Factories, as well as the Orel and the Penza plants, etc. ↑
      • Access to funds 
      • Tariffs 
      • Appeal to the donors 
      • Interesting Facts 
      Information
      About 6000 items.
      The collection includes objects of decorative art, interior design, industrial design, created both in Russia and in other countries in the XVIII–XX centuries and existed in Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad in the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods.

      The objects reveal valuable information about the era of their creation and help to reflect the history of the city on the Neva river. The bulk of the collection was formed in 1970-1990-ies.

      Many items have found their place in the Museum through the stock-purchase Commission (the purchase and the gift). The collection represents a group of memorial items received from the heirs of well-known figures of science and culture, such as artist M. V. Matyushin, the academician D. S. Likhachev, composer I. O. Dunaevsky and others.

      Decorative and applied art (furniture collection) is open for visitors in organized groups on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday sessions at 12.00 and 15.00. ↑



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