Applied Arts Museum of the A. L. Stieglitz Academy of Art and Industry

About museum

The Applied Arts Museum of the A. L. Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry is one of the most interesting and unique monuments of Russian culture. The museum building is a unique architectural work of historicism. The museum's artistic decoration features almost all styles and epochs of art: Antiquity, Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic art, the Renaissance, Viennese, Flemish, French and Italian Baroque. The museum's collections include more than 35,000 applied art objects from Antiquity to the present day. Here you can see Western European porcelain and Eastern ceramics, furniture of the 16th–19th centuries, Russian tile stoves of the 18th century, artistic metalwork and textiles, and works by students from the second half of the 20th century. Temporary exhibitions are also held here, presenting unique examples of furniture from various historical periods as well as items of Russian applied art. The Small Italian Galleries exhibit Western European ceramics and porcelain.