Museum of the History of Kronstadt

The Museum of the History of Kronstadt is located in two buildings. The Museum of the general History of Kronstadt is located in a one-story building on the Anchor Square, near the Bypass Canal. The building of the former water tower houses the Museum of the History of Kronstadt, dedicated to sunken ships and underwater archaeology. 

The water tower in the classical style was built in Kronstadt in 1827. Around the building of the Museum of the History of Kronstadt, you can see installations by local artists at the exhibition-competition "Environmentally friendly Art and Design". The purpose of this exhibition is to motivate sculptors and artists to work. 

Almost all the exhibits of the Museum of the History of Kronstadt on Leningradskaya Street are objects raised from sunken ships and the belongings of sailors who died in a shipwreck. In one of the halls there is a whole skeleton of a ship raised from the bottom of the sea. Search operations in the vicinity of Kronstadt made it possible to lift many items from the battleship Gangut, the battleship Portsmouth and the frigate Oleg.  

One of the halls is dedicated to the siege of Leningrad during WWII. Kronstadt closed the passage of the German fleet to the city from the Baltic Sea. The artillery of the forts and ships of Kronstadt did not allow the German troops to approach Oranienbaum. From here the liberation of Leningrad began in 1944.