Museum of emotions in St. Petersburg

If you still think that the museum is boring and dusty exhibits or a string of paintings hung on white walls, then you certainly did not visit modern museums. Today, this is not just a collection of exhibits, they are interactive centers that contain a variety of art objects. One of these places is the recently opened museum of emotions in St. Petersburg.

Concept

According to the idea of its creator, artist Alexei Sergienko, this is a place where a person can experience such strong emotions, which sometimes does not happen even for a lifetime. According to him, the idea to create a museum of emotions came to him from childhood, when every minute was long, and an hour could seem like an eternity. For an adult person, the hour is nothing, it flies by unnoticed, and it's all about emotions. As a child, they are stronger than ever, so they fill every minute of life with strong feelings. To experience something like this and offers an artist in his museum.

All the space of the gallery is divided into rooms, each of which is designed to demonstrate and evoke this or that emotion. All rooms are connected by corridors, the task of which is to move from one emotion to another. However, the corridors themselves have a specific function - to prepare a person for what is ahead of him, to adjust it to the appropriate mode.

To create the appropriate mood, art objects, installations, video and photo materials are used. Many objects are aimed at tactile perception, so in the room of joyful surprise the guests are waiting for a soft jumping floor imitating the sky in an inverted world, and an unpleasant cellophane in the corridor near the disgust room prepares for the sight of stuffed animals, insects and animals. In the room of fear, you can not only sit on an electric chair or lie in a coffin, but also see how your portrait will look on the tombstone. From the pleasant rooms that the Museum of Emotions offers - a room of love with a huge red heart from plastic tubes, an inspiration room where you can paint with crayons gleaming in the dark and a room of joy with a throne and crooked mirrors that make you laugh.

It is noteworthy that this museum is the first of its kind not only in Russia, but all over the world. Therefore, the author prepared the exposition for a long time, consulted with psychologists and psychiatrists for 5 years, studied relevant literature, all in order to fill the halls of the museum with those objects that can evoke the most vivid emotions.

Operating mode

The Museum of Emotions works late, so if you want you can tickle your nerves right before going to bed - the last tour starts at 22.30.

In general, the museum works from 11 am to 11 pm.

Price

To immerse yourself in the world of emotions, adults will have to pay 600 rubles each, and for children, students and pensioners, the price of the ticket is only 300 rubles for the museum of emotions.

There is also a family ticket - two adults with children can go for only 1000 rubles. By the way, the creator of the museum considers this place an excellent option for family leisure despite the presence of negative and even terrible emotions. However, children under 12 years are allowed only accompanied by adults.

There is an interesting offer for active users of Instagram - if you have more than 10 thousand subscribers, you can go to the museum for free.

Address

The Museum of Emotions is located in the city of St. Petersburg on Italianskaya Street, 1. You can get here by metro, to the station "Nevsky Prospect", to the Griboedov Canal.

You can also take the trolleybus number 1, 10 or 11 to the Metro Nevskiy Prospekt stop. Or by shuttle bus number 107 or 289 you can get to the stop "Arts Square" and walk along Italian Street in the direction of the embankment of the Griboedov Canal.