Museums of St. Petersburg researchers

Abstract

The article considers establishment and work of St. Petersburg Museums of prominent Russian researchers: Dmitry Mendeleyev, Ivan Pavlov, Aleksandr Popov, Petr Kozlov, Mikhail Lomonosov. Stages of the museums’ formation and their contribution to the development of cultural life in St. Petersburg is traced. Each museum under consideration has a different history of the organization. The Mendeleyev Museum was founded in 1911 at the St. Petersburg Imperial University. In the second half of the 1980s, the museum was reconstructed and expanded. In a new form, it began functioning in the spring of 1993. The Pavlov Museum is located in the academic house on the 7th line of the Vasilievsky Island. The museum was opened in 1949 when the 100th anniversary of Pavlov was celebrated. The Pavlov Museum is another form of realization of the memorial museum. The A. Popov Museum is included in the number of unique objects of higher educational institutions of Russia. It was opened in 1949 on the decision of the Government of the USSR in the old academic building of LETI. There is another form of the museum - Popov museum-apartment a (Prof. Popova st., 5). The name of P. K. Kozlov is well known to specialists of various branches of knowledge: ethnographers, archaeologists, orientalists, biologists, botanists. The Kozlov Memorial Apartment Museumwas created on the initiative of a number of scientific organizations and individual scientists on December 2, 1982. The premise for the museum was offered the apartment of P. K. Kozlov. The idea of creating the M. V. Lomonosov Museum was born in the besieged Leningrad. The museum was created as a memorial. On January 5, 1949, was the grand opening of the museum.