Besides the museums that offer beauty, like the Hermitage Museum in Sankt Petersburg and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia also has many strange museums that deserve to be included in your visit when visiting the Red Bear Country.

Visiting the location of a sophisticated Russian farmer in a remote village, playing the best Soviet video games from the 70s, watching the ancient Russian magic world, living in the dream world of Sigmund Freud, you can do this by visiting these fantastic Russian museums.

Sigmund Freud’s Museum of Dreams

Sigmund Freud shows that dreams are not limited to ‘sleeping flowers’ from the mind that is resting, but ‘the path leads to the unconscious’ which sends us to an unlimited adventure about the world and yourself. The Institute of Psychoanalysis is in one of the old buildings that stood in Saint Petersburg since the 19th century.

This is one of three museums in the world dedicated to the inventor of a revolutionary theory of dreams. The museum is in the form of an installation room with unequal surfaces, filled with mirrors and shadows, to create a waking effect from dreams for visitors.

Satir Ostap Bender Humor Museum

In Ilf and Petrov’s Soviet comedy novel “12 Chairs”, there is a scene that tells the plans of Ostap Bender holding an interplanetary chess tournament. The novel inspired the creation of a humor museum in the city of Kozmodemyansk. The museum is housed in an ancient trading residence. The objects in residence illustrate the novel-told chess tournament, and the lunch cafeteria described there until a barber shop has the name “Haircuts and Shaved Goats” (Cut Hair and Shave Goats).

Museum of Sin

For 30 years, experienced pathologist Yuri Schukin collected terrible collections: 700 containers containing members of the human body, organs, and seeds that had been preserved with alcohol. By going to this museum, we will enjoy the sensation of being trapped in a horror film: a charming-looking child and two layers of the brain, a five-eyed boy, a young man who has ears in his eyes, and various exclusive collections of museums that create nausea. But after visiting this museum, you are guaranteed to stop drinking alcohol, smoking or adultery.

Grandma Lida’s House Museum

Babushka (grandmother), Lida from Stroevskoe Village, has a collection of location objects living on the steps and clothes of ancient farmers in her house. He took a tour and held special classes such as how to grind wheat into cereal using small presses or cook dry porridge. Here, visitors can try wearing traditional Russian village attire, singing chastushka songs while playing balalaika, or drinking tea from samovar while accompanied by home-made cakes.

Reptile Museum

This museum is currently in Privolzhsky Village. The village was formerly called Desa Gadovo (gad means ‘snake’ in ancient Russian) because the village was familiar as a ‘snake nest.’ Based on information from legends, this village used to be the Zmeevo Sea. Privolzhsky Village is also known as the birthplace of the legendary three-headed dragon Zmey Gorynych found in Russian fairy tales. Various types of snakes are now preserved in a museum located in this village.

Soviet Arcade Game Museum

This museum is currently in Privolzhsky Village. The village was formerly called Desa Gadovo (gad means ‘snake’ in ancient Russian) because the village was familiar as a ‘snake nest.’ Based on information from legends, this village used to be the Zmeevo Sea. Privolzhsky Village is also known as the birthplace of the legendary three-headed dragon Zmey Gorynych found in Russian fairy tales. Various types of snakes are now preserved in a museum located in this village.