Memorial museum-apartment of Academician I.P. Pavlov at the I.P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences

About museum

All of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's creative life is connected with Petersburg. He spent the last eighteen years living on Vasilievsky Island in the academic house on the 7th Line. This building, originally founded by order of Peter I, was transferred by the state treasury in 1725 to the newly established Academy of Sciences. During the following two centuries many prominent Russian scientists lived there — academicians V.V. Petrov, B.S. Jacobi, A.O. Kovalevsky, V.I. Palladin, V.I. Vernadsky, A.E. Fersman, N.Ya. Marr and many others, whose names are commemorated on numerous memorial plaques mounted on the building's façade.

On the second floor of the house, in apartment 11, which belonged to the Pavlov family, there is now a memorial museum — the only one in this building, which is a unique monument to national science.

Three rooms of the spacious six-room apartment, comprising the museum's memorial exhibition, have preserved all the interior details in their original form to this day. Pavlov's widow and daughter, who lived through the war and the blockade here, managed to save not only the furniture, books and paintings, but also those subtle interior details that say so much about the habits and interests of the head of the household.

The interiors, completely preserved in their original form, keep the memory of the great scientist and at the same time represent a typical example of the apartment of a St. Petersburg intellectual of modest means at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries.