Kaliningrad Art Gallery
Kaliningrad, Prospect Moskovsky, d. 60-62Kaliningrad Art Gallery is one of those surprises that await the most curious travelers where they do not expect to find them. We are used to the fact that modern art museums are located in the capital or a couple of other largest cities in the country.
Kaliningrad History and Art Museum
Kaliningrad, Clinical, 21The Kaliningrad Regional Historical and Art Museum is worth a visit: a lot of interesting objects are stored in its funds, which, given the complicated history of Kaliningrad, is not surprising. Founded Kaliningrad-Konigsberg knights of the Teutonic Order in the middle of the 13th century.
Kaliningrad Regional History and Art Museum
Kaliningrad, Clinical, 21The Kaliningrad Regional Historical and Art Museum is worth a visit: a lot of interesting objects are stored in its funds, which, given the complicated history of Kaliningrad, is not surprising. Founded the Kaliningrad-Konigsberg Knights of the Teutonic Order in the middle of the 13th century.
Museum "Blindage" in Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad, Universitetskaya, 2The Museum "Dugout" is actually wrong to call it: this building is in fact - not a dugout, but a bomb shelter. But this name in Kaliningrad has developed many years ago, has got accustomed, has become fixed and is still used in this form.
Museum of the World Ocean
Kaliningrad, nab. Peter the Great, d. 1The Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad is an excellent museum complex, very interesting for both children and adults. It will not be an exaggeration to say that this is probably the best museum in Kaliningrad and a 100% compulsory visit to the city's landmark.
Museum "Sculpture Park" in Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad, Centralny IslandKaliningrad "Sculpture Park" is a park, that is an exposition under the open sky and, accordingly, an exposition of a sculpture. In combination, this gives an opportunity to see two interesting things: an exhibition of modern art and a very beautiful and large park-arboretum.
Museum "Fort No. 5" in Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad, Bulatova, "Fort No. 5"Around Kaliningrad there are many war memorials - there were heavy and long battles during the last war, and in general the history of the city is not peaceful: it is too convenient for this strategic point, so they fought for it a lot.
The Friedland Gate Museum in Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad, Dzerzhinsky, d. 30The Museum of the Friedland Gate in Kaliningrad is one of those museums where it is very pleasant to come. Not because the collection is great or unique, but simply because it seems that it was created very diligently - carefully, accurately, with love and with attention to detail.
Amber Museum
Kaliningrad, pl. Marshal Vasilevsky, 1Alatyr lying on the seabed, tears of the sea goddess, singing stone. Amber since ancient times attracted people with its mysteriousness. And the truth is, where in the stone, which is found on the bottom of the sea, the wings of butterflies and flies? He burns in the fire, and does not sink in the water, but melts in an airless space under the influence of heat?
Center for Contemporary Arts in Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad, Lithuanian Val, 38, entrance No. 6The National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) opened its branch office in Kaliningrad in 1997. The Kaliningrad branch was called "Baltic", it was intended for the whole region, but predictability ended there.
The appearance of some museums is determined by the geographical location of the city. This, for example, the Museum of the World Ocean - a new, good, large museum, which appeared only a few years ago. In his exposition a lot of materials devoted to the history of navigation in the region, but the most interesting here is the court. These ships, decommissioned from the fleet and transferred to the museum - at different branches. The most famous is probably the icebreaker Krasin. But besides him there is a lot of everything, there is even a submarine, and you can go to every ship.
Another very interesting place is Lodeiny Dvor. This is also one of the branches of the Museum of the World Ocean, located in a separate building. There is a historic shipyard here - they create old ships based on old technologies, you can see how ships were built two hundred or three hundred years ago.
Kaliningrad was once called Koenigsberg and was part of Prussia, so many museums have Prussian collections.
So, one more interesting exposition is in the Kaliningrad regional historical and art museum. There is a wonderful archeological collection here, and there is nothing strange about it - except for local finds, the part of the collection of the Prussian Museum, which was once considered one of the best archaeological museums in the world and covered almost the entire material history of mankind, got there.
This museum has several branches, including the Sculpture Park, the Kristiyonas Donelaitis Museum (it is located in the village of Chistye Prudy in the Nesterovo District, there are several buildings there) and two military memorials dedicated to the Second World War - "Blindage" and "Fort № 5 ". The sculpture park is located in a large and very interesting arboretum.
A special place is occupied by the museum "Friedland gates" - a museum of antiques found during the improvement of the city in old houses, in basements and during the clearing of reservoirs.
In Kaliningrad, a large picture gallery specializing in contemporary art. There are several sections of graphics in it (mostly the Russian beginning of the 20th century, again Prussian and modern regional) and a remarkable section "Folk crafts", very large and bright.
The National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), which conducts interesting events in the avant-garde sphere, will soon become a museum of contemporary art.
The Kaliningrad Zoo is also famous. One of the three oldest zoos in Russia, you can see more than 3,500 animals, and it is located on the territory of a good dendrarium with a large collection of rare plants. There are very rare animals, such as snow leopards.
All the museums of the city are actively developing, and there are new interesting expositions. Their collections are increasing, research is being conducted. In general, there is a rather modern focus: many international events take place in Kaliningrad museums, many museums take part in competitions and have already received all-Russian awards, modern all-Russian events are held here - almost all the museums in the city participate in the national action "Museum Night".