Tioindigo Gallery

Mikhail Anikushin’s Sculpture Studio is a place where fine samples of soviet monumental art were made. Now it is a memorial museum and a modern exhibition hall. A former studio of a famous 20th century sculptor Mikhail Anikushin is a specific architectural space with professional equipment. The big exhibition hall astonishes with air, high ceilings (9 and 15 meters) and huge windows. A big modeling stand, a pointing machine, a clay pit and other instruments show every stage of sculptor’s work, from a paper sketch to casting a bronze monument. Mikhail Anikushin worked in this building for 25 years. The Lenin’s Monument on Moskovsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg, the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, Chekhov’s monuments as well as other portraits and memorial sculptures were made in this studio. Nowadays you can visit memorial rooms and modern sculpture exhibitions. Anikushin's Studio is a branch of the Museum of Urban Sculpture.

The Saint-Petersburg Toy Museum is a member of the Union of Museums of Russia. It was established in 1997 as a non-state cultural establishment, subsided by private companies. It is the second museum of toys in Russia after the oldest artistic-educational museum of that kind in Sergiev Posad near Moscow, which treats pedagogic problems mainly. The Saint-Petersburg Toy Museum was established as an artistic museum with the main task of collecting, storing, exposing and studying a toy not only as a unique item of material culture, but also as a unique art form, that includes ancient national traditions and the most recent artistic tendencies. According to art critic's of the museum opinion, author's toy (strictly speaking, playing objects) born in the workshops of artist, working in different techniques: draughtsman, painters, sculptors, designers, architects etc. was formed only in the last 20-25 years, being rather original field of present day culture, but not yet the sphere of int

The Gallery of Painting of the 20th Century presents contemporary Russian painting and painting of the second half of the last century - the heyday of Soviet art. The core of the gallery's collection is made up of works by authors of the realistic tradition of Russian art.