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Heritage · Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg

RGS presents a Gulf archaeology museum in Kronstadt

Four rooms of the Brylkin battery house more than 300 exhibits.

Fort Konstantin, Kronstadt, 2026
Fort Konstantin, Kronstadt, 2026. Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-05-18. Fort Konstantin, Kronstadt, 2026. Archive photograph; the new museum exhibition is not shown.

The Russian Geographical Society’s Underwater Research Centre and Fort Konstantin created a long-term exhibition about the Gulf of Finland. Recovered objects from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries include paper documents and clothing.

Visitors learn how archaeologists investigate wrecks and conserve waterlogged finds. RGS presented the project on 20 October; its report does not specify the opening date.

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