Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts, Art museum at Solyanoy Pereulok, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts is an art museum located on Solyanoy Pereulok in Saint Petersburg, housed in a 19th-century building with a large central hall and many side rooms. The collection covers furniture, glass, ceramics, textiles, and metalwork from different countries and periods.
Baron Alexander von Stieglitz had the museum built in 1878 to house a school of decorative arts and give the public access to his collection. After the 1917 revolution, the collection passed into state hands and the building served different purposes before reopening as a museum.
The museum takes its name from Baron Alexander von Stieglitz, the financier who founded it and shaped its collection. Visitors today can see how each room was designed to match the style of the objects displayed inside it, making the architecture and the exhibits part of the same experience.
The main entrance is on Solyanoy Pereulok, a side street in central Saint Petersburg that is easy to reach on foot from the main avenues. The building has many rooms spread across several floors, so it is worth setting aside enough time to go through them without rushing.
The large central hall was modeled after a Venetian courtyard and was originally meant as a teaching space for students of the attached art school, not as an exhibition room. Having a school and a museum share the same building was an unusual arrangement in Russia at the time.
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