Central Naval Museum

The museum was founded by the Model Camera, founded by Peter I at the Admiralty in St. Petersburg in 1709. It is one of the first museums in Russia and one of the largest maritime museums in the world. There are about two thousand unique models of ships. Many of them are masterpieces of decorative and applied art. The museum houses a large collection of works of fine art by Russian and foreign masters: I. Aivazovsky, A. Bogolyubov, M. Mikeshin, L. Karavakka, U. Hackert, N. Condi and others. The collection of samples of weapons, naval equipment, flags and banners contains unique specimens, most of which have no analogues in other museums of the world. The pride of the museum is the famous Botik of Peter I - "Grandfather of the Russian Navy", an ancient one-tree tree raised from the bottom of the Southern Bug River, the submarine of S. Dzhevetsky (1881) and many other rarities.