Estonian History Museum Eesti Ajaloomuuseum The story of the Estonian History Museum begins in 1802, when Tallinn’s town hall pharmacist, Johann Burchard (1776–1838), started a collection called Mon Faible (My weakness, in French). The inspiration for collecting came from one decoratively marbled Easter egg. The first exhibit was a Chinese opium pipe. In 1822, Burchard put on the exhibition

Art Museum of Estonia Eesti Kunstimuuseum The museum was founded in 1919 and has grown into several museums: Kumu Art Museum, Kadriorg Art Museum, Mikkel Museum, Niguliste Museum, and Adamson-Eric Museum. It covers the Middle Ages up until the present.

Mikhail Bulgakov Museum Литературно-мемориальный музей М. Булгакова The Literature-Memorial Museum to Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov was opened in his home city Kiev in 1989. The memorial house is well known to Bulgakov’s readers from the novel The White Guard. The novel describes 51 day of the life of a family of intellectuals during the Civil War

National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War Музей історії України у Другій світовій війні The museum is a memorial complex commemorating World War II in the Pechersk District of Kiev and is on the right bank of the Dnieper River. It is one of the largest museums in Ukraine and

National Museum of the History of Ukraine Національний музей історії України By the criteria of number and value of the collections National Museum of Ukrainian History is one of the leading museums in Ukraine. Its collection contains almost a million exhibits. Among them – archeological and numismatic collections of world importance, ethnographic collection, collection of

National Art Museum of Ukraine Національний художній музей України The museum was founded thanks to the activities of Ukrainian intellectuals at the end of the 19th century as the first free-for-all Kyiv museum. The last name of this institution is the National Art Museum of Ukraine, it arose in 1994 in the independent Ukainian state and

The Polytechnic Museum Политехнической Музей The Polytechnic Museum, founded in 1872, is a national museum of history of science and technology, one of the world’s oldest and largest museums of its kind. Today the Polytechnic Museum goes beyond collecting and preserving the unique achievements of the human mind, embodied in devices and objects; now it

The Hermitage-Kazan Center Казанский Кремль (государственный историко-архитектурный и художественный музей-заповедник The Hermitage-Kazan Exhibition Center was created under the patronage and with support from President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mentimer Shaimiev and is structurally a subdivision of the Kazan Kremlin State Historical and Architectural Museum-Park. It is situated on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin

The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 Центральный Музей Великой Отечественной Войны The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War is the unique memorial complex which serves to eternize memory of Soviet people valor, heroism and courage during the Great Patriotic War. The Museum is engaged in research, in cultural and educational work,

The State Peterhof Museum Reserve Петергоф Государственный Музей Заповедник The brilliant palace and park ensemble of Peterhof, conceived and created at the will of Peter the Great as a counterpart of Versailles, is situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, 29 kilometers from St. Petersburg. In the course of 200 years, it