# Petrological museum
**Source**: https://english.spbu.ru/about/st-petersburg-university-exhibitions-and-museum-collections/petrological-museum
**Parent**: https://english.spbu.ru/about/st-petersburg-state-university-exhibitions-and-museum-collections
The Museum is dedicated to the geology of rocks. The first collection assembled by Professor Aleksander Inostrantsev, consisted of 550 samples.
Address
7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment, St Petersburg
Telephone
+7 (812) 328-94-80
Opening hours
Admission of visitors is temporarily suspended from 9 October 2020. The reopening date will be announced later.
The last Thursday of each month is a cleaning day.
Telephones for booking excursions
+7 (931) 007–79–01
+7 (921) 908–06–27
E-mail
[excursions@spbu.ru](mailto:excursions@spbu.ru)
Sessions
Tuesday, Thursday: 12 noon, 2pm, 4pm Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 12 noon, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm
Admission tickets
Adults – 350 roubles, reduced tickets – 175 roubles, group ticket – 4,000 roubles, reduced group ticket – 2,000 roubles.
Payment methods
You can pay with cash via Sberbank ATM at 7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment, Mendeleevskaya Line entrance (the ATM might charge an additional fee)
St Petersburg University payment system <https://pay.spbu.ru>
If you cannot pay either via the payment terminal or via payment system, you can pay with a credit card and cash in the ticket office of St Petersburg University at the Faculty of Philology at 3 Philologichesky lane (open 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 4.30pm)
Audio guide
<http://izi.travel/browse/664e3a91-fb81-40d9-aa1a-d25859439cf4>
Petrological collections of the University began to take shape in the 1870s on the initiative and with an active participation of the first professor of the University Aleksander Inostrantsev.
The Petrological museum of St. Petersburg University stores collections of rock sections of Nikolay Przhevalsky’s friends, colleagues and students: Grigory Potanin, Mikhail Pevtsov, Innokentii Lopatin and others. Many academicians contributed to the collection of the Museum:
- Franz Loewinson-Lessing and Aleksandr Polkanov
- Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, Nikolai Eliseev
- Professors Vladimir Timofeev, Galina Saranchina, Nikolai Shinkarev, Nikolai Kotov, Sergei Grigorev
- Associate Professor Valerii Ivannikov
Topics of excursions:
- Collections of Petrological museum
- Main types of magmatic and metamorphic rocks
- Intrusive rocks and mineral resources
- Modern volcanism and palaeovolcanism in the Museum collections
- Crust and mantle of the Earth in the Museum collection
- Geodynamic situation of forming complexes of rocks
- Stone aliens from Space are changing the Earth (meteorites and impactites)
- Rocks as a material for facing and decoration
### Administration
Head of the museum
Marina Sinai
E-mail
[m.sinay@spbu.ru](mailto:m.sinay@spbu.ru)
### [News and Events](https://english.spbu.ru/topics/para_23045)
[20 February – 11 April 2026:
#### Feeling through skin](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/calendar/feeling-through-skin)
St. Petersburg State University will host the grand opening of the exhibition ‘Feeling through Skin’ by the artist Aleksandra Belle.
20 February – 11 April 2026
18:00
47 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, St. Petersburg
[Exhibition](https://english.spbu.ru/topics/91)
[Throughout the month:
#### Petrography Museum Tour](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/calendar/petrography-museum-tour)
Throughout the month
7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment / 2 Mendeleevskaya Line
[Guided tour](https://english.spbu.ru/topics/3904)
[Throughout the month:
#### Paleontological Museum Tour](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/calendar/paleontological-museum-tour)
Throughout the month
7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment / 2 Mendeleevskaya Line
[Guided tour](https://english.spbu.ru/topics/3904)
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