The State Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg (russian: Государственный музей истории Санкт-Петербурга) is a museum of the history of the city of
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
,
Russia
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.
The headquarters of the museum are located in the
Peter and Paul Fortress
The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. Between the first half of the 1700s and early 1920s i ...
. A museum of the city's history was established in 1908 as the . It became the City Museum in 1918, and then the Museum of History and Development of Leningrad in 1938. In 1951 it was renamed the Museum of Architecture of Leningrad, and in 1953 it became the State Museum of the History of Leningrad.
During the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, following the
Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, the museum's contents were evacuated to
Sarapul. The first full historical exhibitions began in 1957, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Leningrad. By 2002 the museum's collections had grown to 1 million objects, and included architects' documents, photos and plans of Saint Petersburg from the 18th–20th centuries.
See also
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List of museums in Saint Petersburg
This is a list of museums in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Biographical museums
Writers
Anna Akhmatova museums
*Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum (Fountain House)
* Anna Akhmatova. The Silver Age (in Avtovo)
Alexander Pushkin museu ...
References
Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia
Museums established in 1938
City museums
Local history museums in Russia
Peter and Paul Fortress
History museums in Saint Petersburg
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