Mineralogical Museum
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The Mineralogical Museum was founded in 1785. Over the years it has become one of the best natural science museums in Russia.
Address
7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment, St Petersburg
Opening hours
The reception of visitors is organised by sessions in groups of no more than 5 people with excursion services by appointment.
Sessions
Tuesday, Thursday – 12 noon, 2pm, 4pm; Wednesday, Friday, Saturday – 12 noon, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm
Telephones for booking excursions
+7 (931) 007–79–01
+7 (921) 908–06–27
The last Thursday of each month is a cleaning day.
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
https://izi.travel/ru/6a12-mineralogicheskiy-muzey/ru
\ The Museum stores the minerals which were used by Dmitri Mendeleev and later researchers to produce new chemical elements.
The collection of diamonds and associate minerals is from Kimberley, South Africa, and had been acquired by Ernst Hofmann in the 19th century. It enabled scientists to develop in the Department of Mineralogy of Leningrad University a method of spotting diamonds by associate minerals. Thanks to this method, the first primary diamond deposit in the USSR was discovered.
The Museum comprises over 30,000 samples (870 types of minerals). They are included into the following collections: the systematic collection (by type of mineral); memorial collections (Dmitri Mendeleev, Ernst Hofmann, Archbishop Nilus and others); the collection of meteorites; the collection of photos and illustrations; the collection of manuscripts and field research materials; and the collection of reference and supplementary literature.
News and Events
[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
[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
[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
[Throughout the month:
Mendeleev Museum and Archives Tour](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/calendar/mendeleev-museum-and-archives-tour)
The SPbU Mendeleev museum and archives offers weekly guided tours.
Throughout the month
7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment / 2 Mendeleevskaya Line
[Throughout the month:
Mineralogical Museum Tour](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/calendar/mineralogical-museum-tour)
SPbU hosts weekly guided tours of the Mineralogical Museum.
Throughout the month
7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment / 2 Mendeleevskaya Line
Administration
Acting head of museum
Natalia Yanson
Museum on social media
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