Museums in Russia

The exhibition features the rich collection of scientific and technological devices of the 19th – 20th centuries: domestic appliances, measuring and optical instruments, calculators, vehicles (a Benz Velo and a few motorcycles), and many more.

In the summer of 2014, the leadership of the RIAT group of companies decided to create a museum of Soviet cars. This decision was not spontaneous, since the repair and manufacture of automotive equipment was the original purpose of the enterprise. The creation of the museum is an attempt to return to its origins, a tribute to the glorious past, which is so important in our impersonal age of globalization.

"The Museum of Electric Transport on Vasilyevsky island in St Petersburg is located in a tram depot built in 1906-08. The museum was established in 1967. It is concerned principally with the history of tramways and trolley bus routes in St Petersburg, and now has a collection of 45 restored trams and 18 trolley buses, as well models (including models of the horse-drawn vehicles that preceded the electric trams), photographs, uniforms, cash registers and other artefacts relating to tramway operation.

Museum Route 66 focuses on American cars made between 1940-1970: "the permanent automobile exhibition in St. Petersburg presents more than a dozen conceptual thematic zones, each of which recreates the atmosphere of your favorite films. Each of the interactive zones is unique in its own way, due to which each car is presented in the format of a whole art object".

A strangely restored early Buchet car warrants a place in our guide.

This museum, which until 2014 was called the Technical Museum AvtoVAZ features Soviet military products, including tanks, helicopters, submarines etc.

Patriot Park is a theme park in Kubinka, Russia that is themed around equipment of the Russian military. The park, which officially opened in 2016, is designed around a military theme. A museum complex shows over 268 samples of the Soviet and Russian aviation, armored vehicles, armored materiel and special materiel of the last decades.

Polytechnical museum is a scientific, enlightening and cultural-leisure centre of Russia, the main museum in history of science and technology. The Museum keeps more than 100 collections with more than 160,000 exhibits. Many of them are unique relics of science and technique. Museum's exposition occupies about 10,500 sq. m.

Opened in Summer, 2008 this museum was created by members of the St. Petersburg-based Retro Union club.

Inside the parking lot of the Piterland Shopping Center more than 70 legendary cars, American cars from the 1950s to the 1980s are being show in this exhibition.