Visiting museums for free
The weather in St. Petersburg is inhospitable in winter. What to do? Of course, visit
museums and exhibitions. Many museums accept guests for free. It is a great opportunity for those who visit St.Peterburg for the first time. On the third Thursday of every month, you can admire the treasures of the Hermitage. Take our advice – go to the General Headquarters, there are usually not many people and no queues.
The days, when you can come for free to the Museum of Porcelain are the first Thursday of the month, the Zoological Museum is the third Thursday of the month, and the Museum of the History of Religions is every Tuesday from 19:00 to 21:00 and on the first Monday of the month. On February 10, you can see rare exhibits in the A.S. Pushkin Museum-Apartment Visit the Mokhovaya-18 Gallery of Contemporary Art. They are admitted free of charge from Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00 to 19:30. There is no need to pay to enter the Kronstadt Maritime Museum, the Artmuza Museum of Contemporary Art, the Sampsonievsky Cathedral Museum-Monument, museums of the St. Petersburg Metro, and the history of photography.
Out-of-town walks
Have already gone around all museums and temples and do not know where else to go in St. Petersburg in winter? Go to suburban homesteads. There are fresh air and more snow outside the city. For those who have already been to Pavlovsk, Oranienbaum, and Tsarskoe Selo, we advise you to discover little-known estates. Come to Nevsky Forest Park and take a walk around Bogoslovka. Explore the palace and park complex “Leuchtenberg Manor” in Sergievka and the museum-estate of Ilya Efimovich Repin “Penates” in the village of Repino. Go to the Suida Museum-Estate of the Hannibals and the House-Museum of the composer Rimsky-Korsakov in Tikhvin.
Snowkiting
The fans of extreme entertainment choose winter sports. The winter kitesurfing lessons are very popular with tourists. It takes courage and dexterity to ride a parachute-like kite. While gliding downwind on skis or snowboards, you will pick up decent speed and get a hefty dose of adrenaline. Snowkiting is taught near the mouth of the Smolenka River – near the Primorskaya metro station, in the Park of the 300th Anniversary, Sestroretsk and Zelenogorsk.
Ski slopes
What to do in St. Petersburg in winter for fans of skiing and snowboarding? Do not deny yourself the pleasure and ride on the equipped snow slopes! There are many winter resorts in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. The most popular are Okhta Park, Snezhny, Krasnoe Lake, Zolotaya Dolina, Lyubogorye, Puhtolova Gora, Kavgolovo, Tuutari-Park and Severny Slope.
Ski trails
If you enjoy cross-country skiing, go for a walk in the park. The citizens of St. Petersburg also love winter jogging, so there are plenty of places where ski tracks are laid. There are good tracks in the Park of the 300th anniversary, Tavrichesky garden, parks “Sosnovka” and “Alexandria”, Udelny park, on Elagin island, in Rzhevsky and Kavgolovsky forest parks.
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