Exhibition of the Bread Museum

About exhibition

The building that now houses the museum is a monument of wooden urban architecture of Saint Petersburg from the first half of the 19th century. As visitors stroll through the halls, they learn about the history of the main cereals of human civilization—corn, rice, and wheat. They enter the space of a traditional Russian izba, where they see the oven corner and antique baking utensils. The "Bread Factories in Petersburg–Leningrad" hall presents the history of the country’s first bread factories, and at the center of the exhibition visitors are met by original equipment from the 1930s–1950s. The museum also displays a reconstruction of a small shop with bakers' tools from past centuries, a late 19th-century St. Petersburg kitchen, the prototype of the modern refrigerator—an icehouse, and an early 20th-century confectionery.