Metrology Museum at the FSUE All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Metrology named after D.I. Mendeleev

About museum

In Saint Petersburg, at the D. I. Mendeleev Institute of Metrology, one of Russia's oldest scientific institutions, is the country's only Metrology Museum. It houses unique standard measures, scales, and measuring instruments that demonstrate the history of measurement in Russia and other countries. Russian pounds, zolotniks, vedras, chetveriks, arshins, sazhens, Western European pounds and feet, Chinese taels, Egyptian rotls, American pints and gallons — all of these can be seen in the exhibition. A significant portion of the exhibits is connected with the work of the world-famous Russian scientist D. I. Mendeleev, who headed the Main Chamber of Weights and Measures from 1892. A special place in the collection is occupied by Russia's first standards (1835) and the standards created in the early 20th century under D. I. Mendeleev's leadership. You can also see scales made by leading world firms to the scientist's order, based on his physical theory of weights.