Recently, interactive museums are much more popular than ordinary. These are such establishments where the visitor can be not only a spectator, but also a participant in the exposition, and some exhibits not only do not prohibit touching, but even vice versa - they welcome this. Perhaps, in Russia, the most interactive museums in St. Petersburg. The following is a list of the 15 most interesting.
Museum-model "Petrovskaya Water Area"
The address of the interactive museum of St. Petersburg "Petrovskaya Aquatoria" is Malaya Morskaya street, 4/1. This unique museum is a model of St. Petersburg, covering an area of just over 500 m 2. The layout depicts the main episodes from the history of life and construction of the city of the beginning and the middle of the XVIII century, created on a scale of 1:87 using real water and various technical devices, which allows simulating movement, changing the time of year and day, and much more.
Many of the "life" processes of the layout are designed to be managed by visitors themselves. Mass excursions are conducted by an actor in the costume of Peter the Great, which is especially interesting for young visitors. Photos from this museum can be seen in the title of the article. Judging by the reviews, the museum makes an incredible impression of a visit.
"Labyrinthum"
Interactive Museum of Scientific Discoveries "Labyrinthum" in St. Petersburg - these are two huge sites with exhibits that clearly demonstrate the laws of chemistry, physics and biology. Both branches of the museum are worth a visit, since the attractions and exhibits in them are completely different.
In addition to the main exhibition, museums regularly host theatrical performances, unusual excursions and master classes. There are a lot of reviews about LabyrinthUum in St. Petersburg, and judging by them, it is interesting here not only for children, but also for adults (maybe adults are even more interesting).
In the museum located at 14 Kosmonavtov Avenue (TRK Raduga), visitors will find musical instruments from lasers and drainpipes, a gyroscope and a scientific theater with experiments, and at 9 Lev Tolstoy Street - a mirror labyrinth, magnetic field research Earth and the refraction of light, the platform "Water World" and "Man in Figures."
Petersburg planetarium
One of the oldest interactive museums in St. Petersburg is the famous planetarium, opened in 1959. In addition to the real observatory with professional telescopes and the main hall with a projection of the starry sky, visitors can take part in the theatrical performance "Space Travel", watch a demonstration of scientific experiments in the laboratory, look at a digital exposition about the Earth in the Planeta hall and get acquainted with the scanning in " Hall of entertaining illusions."
Negative reviews from visiting this museum will not remain even for those who are not at all interested in astronomy. Petersburg Planetarium is located at: Alexander Park, 4.
Museum of Illusions
The Museum of Illusions in St. Petersburg is a branch of the museum of the same name in the capital. Many people think that this museum is mainly for children, but this is not so - in the reviews, adult visitors write that "they ran around the museum with a camera with more enthusiasm than children." And there really is something to photograph!
Visitors are offered several thematic halls - the main "Hall of Illusions", in which guests become participants in 3D images, "Giant's House" with hypertrophied household items, "Glass-Mirror Maze", a room with live tropical butterflies and a contact zoo. Visitors who have seen the world write in reviews that they have not seen so many different installations anywhere.
You can find the Museum of Illusions in St. Petersburg at 5 Bolshaya Morskaya Street.
Freud's Dream Museum
This museum, located at 18A Bolshoy Prospect, Petrograd Side, is a huge installation dedicated to the life and work of Sigmund Freud.
At the disposal of visitors there are three halls: "introductory", "dream-like" and intermediate between them. “Introductory” resembles the room of a regular museum - here in the shop windows are collected household items of the famous psychoanalyst. The intermediate hall shows illustrations for Freud’s famous dreams, while the “dream room” is a huge and integral installation on the theme of all Freud’s works on dreams.
The founders and artists of the museum are Victor Mazin, Vladimir Kustov and Pavel Pepperstein. By the effect produced, many visitors compare the museum with the famous Dali Theater-Museum.
"Museum of emotions"
In reviews, the Museum of Emotions is often called the most unusual exhibition site in the world. This is not surprising, because the main subject of each hall is a specific emotion - for example, joy, disgust or love. And you can see, or rather say, feel this emotion with the help of unusual exhibits created by the artist Alexander Sergienko.
The peculiarity of the museum is the sequential arrangement of the halls, that is, it is impossible to selectively see the exposition; an exit is available only after viewing all the halls. Visitors write that after leaving the museum they feel "like after a session of emotional therapy."
The address of the Museum of Emotions is 1 Italianskaya Street.
Museum of Soviet slot machines
The exposition of this interactive museum of St. Petersburg includes more than 50 units of retro-automatic machines collected and brought from the territories of the entire former Soviet Union. The highlight is that absolutely all vending machines are working, and when buying a ticket, visitors receive a handful of tokens and have the right to play with fifteen exhibits.
Among the machines known to every Soviet child are "Sea Battle", "Basketball", "Sniper" and many others. There is also a working photo booth and soda water machines from which you can drink (although the reviews say that the taste of water in the Soviet era was completely different).
The museum is located in the building of the former Imperial Stables at the address: Konyushennaya Square, 2B. In addition to the usual visit, it is possible to rent the entire museum for a children's party or corporate party - then the game on all machines will be free.
"Russia is my story"
The representative of the first in Russia franchise of interactive museums "Russia - my story" in St. Petersburg opened not so long ago, but has already become one of the most visited. The fact is that in this museum you can get acquainted with the whole history of Russia - a huge number of digital sources in the form of screens, attractions and 3D projections show historical documents, maps of battle battles, photographs and excerpts from video chronicles.
The exhibition is divided into four rooms - the rule of the Rurikovich, then the Romanovs, from 1917 to 1945. and from 1945 to the present day. The difference between the museum and those built in other cities is the history of St. Petersburg, told in parallel with the whole history of Russia - for example, more attention is paid to the blockade of Leningrad.
You can visit it at the address: Basseinaya Street, 32/1.
"Universe of water"
Another very unusual interactive museum in St. Petersburg is completely dedicated to the water itself and the history of water supply in St. Petersburg. That is why the museum’s exposition is located in the building of the former Water Tower.
The visitors are given three rooms - one ordinary, with real historical exhibits telling about the history and appearance of the water supply system in the world and in St. Petersburg. The other two are multimedia. The Underground World of Petersburg tells about the city’s modern water system, and the Universe of Water tells about the most amazing substance and its place in nature and human life.
Judging by the reviews, visitors are delighted not only by the unusual nature of the topic, but also by the mysterious beauty of the general exposition.
Address of the Universe of Water Museum: Shpalernaya Street 56E.
Museum of Contemporary Art "Erarta"
The interactive museum of modern art in St. Petersburg with the beautiful name "Erarta" is the first private site of the city, which presents the work of contemporary artists and sculptors.
In addition to classical paintings and sculptures, the museum has a variety of installations requiring the participation of the viewer, as well as graffiti and video art. In total, more than 2800 exposure units. The museum regularly hosts various performances, concerts and lectures on contemporary art.
One of the most interesting venues is the cinema hall, which displays "animated paintings" - an animation specially created on the basis of pictorial paintings.
The Erarta Museum is located at 29th line of Vasilyevsky Island, 2.
Muzeus
Muzeus is an interactive museum of St. Petersburg for children. Its exposition was specially created for visiting by the smallest, although reviews write that adults are not at all bored in this fabulous place. It’s fabulous because it is precisely the children's works of this genre that all installations and exhibits of the Museum are devoted to.
Visitors will find several halls, each of which has a theatrical plot - a medieval castle, an enchanted hut, a magic glade, a primitive cave, a pirate ship at the bottom of the sea, a space ship, an inverted city and a saloon in the Wild West. In addition, the museum has a hall with the Theater of Science - for those children who are interested in the topic of inventions, experiments and the future.
And this wonderful museum is located at: Leningradskaya St., 5/2.
Optics Museum of ITMO University
Judging by the reviews, the interactive museum of optics in St. Petersburg is one of the most interesting places to visit with the whole family. It was created on the basis of the University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics.
The museum includes eleven halls, and in each of them, in addition to the hall with a collection of glass, there are exhibits designed to interact with the visitor. For example, here you can see many holograms, optical illusions and even fly a little. You can explore the museum yourself, or you can join a free tour - they start every 20 minutes. Those who have already visited the wonderful museum write in reviews that they will certainly come back here - even such a science is more interesting to children than attractions.
You can find the museum at: Birzhevaya line, 14.
Titicaca Museum of Records and Facts
About this interactive museum, you can often read reviews "the most unusual museum in the world" and "I will definitely return here again." All the most non-standard is collected under the Titicaca roof - records from the Guinness book, the strangest traditions of different nations, amazing people and cult things from the last century.
Each of the 70 exhibits of the museum can not only be seen, but also, for example, try on, smell or touch - depending on what it is. And with the presented records, the following interactive is offered - visitors are literally challenged and provided with a favorable environment so that the record is broken. Of the interesting exhibits - the smallest car, the first Macintosh computer, Cinderella's crystal shoe, the first Barbie doll and much more.
The address of the Titicaca Museum is 7 Kazan Street.
Route 66
Route 66 is an interactive museum of Hollywood autolends in St. Petersburg. Interesting are considered not only the exhibits themselves, which are the original legends of the US automobile industry, but also the installations created around them, as well as the fact that you can sit in each car and take a photo for memory.
The museum’s exposition includes ten cars that change periodically, as well as the locations created around them, for example, a built-in “frame” from the movie “Ghostbusters” or “Indiana Jones”. Judging by the reviews, all visitors leave the museum with wonderful emotions and a huge number of beautiful, unusual photos.
A visit to this museum can be combined with the Museum of Soviet Slot Machines, as they are located in the same building of the former Imperial Stables - at Konyushennaya Square, 2B.
