Museum of Russian Submarine Forces Museum of Russian Submarine Forces The A.I. Marinesko Museum of the History of Russian Submarine Forces is a state museum located in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. The museum was named in honor of the Soviet submarine commander Alexander Marinesko, and it's the only municipal museum of Russian submarine forces. The museum was established in 1997. The museum contains many items relevant to the Russian submarine forces, including: models of submarines; personal items, documents and photos of sailors; original equipment from Soviet submarines; items associated with Russian naval traditions; and maps of naval battles. Periodically the museum organizes special exhibitions dedicated to historical
Hermitage Museum dependencies abroad and domestically. The dependency of the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam is known as the Hermitage Amsterdam, and is located in the former Amstelhof building. It opened on 24 February 2004 in a small building on the Nieuwe Herengracht in Amsterdam, awaiting the closing of the retirement home which still occupied the Amstelhof building until 2007. Between 2007 and 2009, the Amstelhof was renovated and made suitable for the housing of the Amsterdam Hermitage. The Amsterdam Hermitage was opened on 19 June 2009 by President Dmitry Medvedev and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. The Hermitage dependency in Kazan (Tatarstan,