Karl May School, Museum

The Karl May School History Museum preserves historical memory, records, presents and popularizes the educational experience of this educational institution and its subsequent successors. It was opened in 1995 as a structural unit of the St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In April 2018, it was transferred to the Roerich Family Museum-Institute. The founder of the museum, who graduated in 1949, developed a concept according to which the exposition reflects the five main stages of development of one of the educational institutions of Russia in the period from 1856 to 1918, as well as its subsequent successors from 1918 to 2006. The museum presents teaching aids, textbooks, documents, photographs, author's books, personal belongings of teachers and students. The museum's collections contain data on more than ten thousand teachers and pupils of the school. In addition, the museum hosts exhibitions dedicated to famous personalities, including Academician D.S. Likhachev, the family of Nicholas Roerich, as well as the brothers L. V. and V. V. Uspensky.