You were going to visit Petrov grad with a sightseeing purpose, but you decided not to do it alone, but with your beloved child. Commendable aspiration, but it would be nice to
outline a preliminary route - where to go with a child in St. Petersburg.
In St. Petersburg, a huge number of places where you can visit the whole family and where it will be interesting to all its members. These are primarily museums. Let's try to break into groups the main institutions for visiting, so to speak, according to their thematic focus.
Museums
St. Petersburg is a historical city and has many museums of various directions. To save on travel, St. Petersburg museums can be visited for free. Be sure to go to the Hermitage. For free access, its doors are open monthly on the first Thursday. Once a month, on the last Thursday, there is an opportunity to wander around the Peter and Paul Fortress for free. It will be possible to enter the puppet museum without a ticket on the last Monday every month, and the zoological museum on the last Thursday. Schoolchildren under the age of 18 have the opportunity to visit the Suvorov Museum for free on the first Sunday every month, and the Ethnographic Museum on the first Thursday.
Game and study
KidBurg receives a lot of flattering reviews - a children's town, it’s not just an entertainment center, but a whole city with its own currency, where a child can live a lifetime in a day. Here, children can study, get a "profession", find a job. Each is given a little local currency. The child learns to understand why you need to study, work, spend money economically, and also comply with laws and regulations.
Relatively recently, LabyrinthUm began to operate, but has already gained wide popularity. This is an interactive center of scientific knowledge. Various physical, natural phenomena and patterns are graphically presented here. Children will learn how lightning appears, where a tornado comes from , how snow forms and much more. Scientific knowledge is taught unobtrusively, in a playful way. The kids leave the museum under great impression. When choosing where to go with a child in St. Petersburg, be sure to visit one of these centers.
Animal world
For lovers of animals, insects and other representatives of the fauna to the question "Where to go with a child in St. Petersburg?" there are many answers. The most common of them is the Leningrad Zoo. It is open all year round, even in winter, as it is equipped with heated glass pavilions. There are many tailed and toothy inhabitants of our planet: a Bengal tiger,
a Przhevalsky horse, a flying Egyptian dog, a black stork, a beaver. There is an exotarium with reptiles.
The famous St. Petersburg exhibition “Butterfly World” is an opportunity to get acquainted with beautiful fragile insects. Children will be interested in visiting the dolphinarium, in which you can swim with its inhabitants.
Fun and Attractions
Holidays with children are well planned in some kind of family leisure center, of which there are a great many in the city on the Neva. One of them is the famous “Happylon”, in which there are many attractions, cafes, and a cinema. Children can be placed under the supervision of animators.
The choice of a place to go with a child in St. Petersburg depends on the age of the child, your wallet and time spent in the city.