The Artillery Museum was definitely my favorite museum in St. Petersburg. Basically, it is a huge building full of cannons and guns. They have other stuff, too, like Napoleon’s uniform.
Sadly, the outside exhibit with all the really cool missile launchers and tanks was closed, but that didn’t stop us from wandering in! Luckily a nice soldier was there to inform us we were not allowed to be there…hey, we’re just stupid Americans, what do we know?
Myself with some type of artillery.
A picture of the courtyard (which was under construction). I only snapped one before the soldier came running after us and told us to leave.
Big guns.
Tanks and missiles.
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