Калининград - это город с очень заметной cultural life, the activity of which is reflected in the number of museums, of which there are quite a few. And as old, with a rich heritage, and recently opened, with the newest history. This is an indication that the museums of Kaliningrad not only preserve traditions, but multiply and develop. Kaliningrad offers its inhabitants and guests of the city a museum-oriented event for any, even the most demanding, taste.
Museum of the World Ocean
This is both a museum and a science center.having in the arsenal the world's only space communication vessel “Cosmonaut Viktor Patsayev”. By visiting this museum, you can learn all the facts known to science about the flora and fauna of the world's oceans, and also about the history of Russian flotation.
The museum organizes thematic exhibitions andexpositions that give an idea of iconic events in a difficult, but extremely important and interesting work on the development of human oceans. And only here you can climb aboard one of the research ships to learn about its basics.
Address: Peter the Great Embankment, 1.
Cost of visit: each object has its own, a ticket for an adult costs from 50 to 400 rubles, depending on the object and type of excursion.
Working hours: from 10.00 to 18.00, weekends - Monday and Tuesday.
Friedland Gate
This is one of the surviving ancient city gates, and today there is a historical and local history museum in their premises.
Permanent exhibition, which occupies one of the halls,consists of objects dated at different times, but connected by one place, which was once foreign, but later became Russian. Household items from different eras - coffee grinders, dishes, various kitchen utensils, sewing machines and even a collection of beer bottles.
A separate room is given under the collection of smallweapons released in Europe during the First and Second World War. The local history museum holds interchangeable exhibitions and opening days, like all other museums in Kaliningrad. Photos of evenings by the fireplace in the small hall, where literary and musical meetings are held by candlelight, often found in the local press, these events attract a lot of the public.
Address: st. Dzerzhinsky, 30
Cost of visit: for adults, a ticket costs 200 rubles, for preschool children - 30 rubles, and for schoolchildren and students - 100.
Working hours: daily from 10.00 to 18.00.
Art Gallery
It was founded in 1988, but thenbore the name of the museum of modern art. Today, the gallery’s exposition is based on samples of official and alternative painting directions from the times of the USSR, works by Russian and foreign graphic artists, contemporary art by artists from the Baltic countries, and samples of folk crafts from all over Russia. Separately, it is worth mentioning art objects from East Prussia until 1945.
In addition to the main exhibition, the gallery, like other art museums in Kaliningrad, participates in the “Museum Night” projects, youth and children's festivals.
Address: Moskovsky Prospect, 60-62
Cost of visit: depending on the exhibition and exposition prices range from 30 to 250 rubles.
Operating mode: Monday - day off, Thursday - from 10.00 to 21.00, other days - from 10.00 to 18.00.
Amber Museum
The museum building is a historicallandmark: in the middle of the XIX century it was the bastion of the Don (in honor of the commander of General Friedrich zu Don). After the end of the Second World War, there were only ruins on the bastion site for many years, but in 1977 the Soviet government began to restore the building, and at the end of 1979, the first Amber Museum in the world was opened in the reconstructed building.
Currently, the museum can learn the historyorigin and aspects of amber mining, explore unique exhibits, including amber nuggets with inclusions, amber jewelery and magnificent jewelry made of gold and silver with amber
Address: pl. Marshal Vasilevsky, 1
Cost of visit: adults - 200 rubles, students - 100, schoolchildren - 80.
Operating mode: from October to April - from 10.00 to 18.00, except Monday; The rest of the time - seven days a week, from 10.00 to 19.00.
Kant Museum
Строительство собора, в здании которого The museum is located, it was started as early as the 14th century on the Kneiphof island and was held for fifty years. Today, many museums in Kaliningrad, including the Kant Museum, are interesting not only for their collections, but also for the history of the building itself. So, the cathedral itself is a historical landmark of the city.
Began construction of Bishop Johannes Clara.Subsequently, a clock with a bell ringing was installed on the cathedral tower. In the altar part there are tombs of the rulers of Prussia belonging to the Hohenzollern dynasty. At its walls, in the sarcophagus of dark granite, surrounded by twelve columns, the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant rests. In the museum, his name contains exhibits reflecting his era, telling about the legacy of the philosopher and his life.
Except for minor restoration work andSome of the architectural structures added to the ensemble at a later time, the cathedral looked unchanged from the end of construction to the storming of the city of Konigsberg in April 1944, when the historic building was seriously damaged. Many years after the end of the war, as a result of a long and large-scale restoration, the cathedral became operational again, and in 1991 the first service was held within its walls.
Address: st. I. Kant, 1.
Cost of visit: adults - 150, schoolchildren and students - 100 p.
Working hours: from Monday to Thursday - from 10 to 18, on other days the museum closes one hour later.
Altes haus amalienau
There are many houses and apartments in Kaliningrad,who were able to preserve the almost lost spirit of old Koenigsberg. One of the most interesting is located at number 12 on Pugachev Street. In this apartment, not only the walls in the dilapidated wallpaper, the ceiling with authentic painting, the larch floor laid a hundred years ago, the original interior doors are preserved. In addition, the interior of the apartment itself is selected so that you can plunge into the authentic atmosphere characteristic of the citizens of the beginning of the 20th century.
On an excursion in “Amalienau” the most convenientcome in groups. And for a fee, you can order tea in the apartment, because due to the fact that this is a private collection, there is something that other museums in Kaliningrad cannot offer. The mode of operation of the apartment - every day from 15:00, but you need to call the owners in advance.
Address: st. Pugacheva, 12.
Cost of visit: depends on the number of people on the tour.
Museum "Bunker Lyasha"
Not all museums in Kaliningrad are in oldbuildings. The Bunker Museum is located in a reinforced concrete bomb shelter, equipped in February 1945. It was in this underground bunker that the surrender of the Koenigsberg garrison was signed. The atmosphere and atmosphere of that time are fully preserved in the bunker. In the museum you can visit and updated themed expositions.
Address: University Street, 2a.
Cost of visit: admission ticket costs 100 p.
Operating mode: daily from 10 to 18, day off - Monday.
Of course, this is not all museums in Kaliningrad, not to mentionalready about those that are located in the area. However, being in Kaliningrad, visit at least a few from this list - there will definitely be plenty of impressions and new knowledge.
