The Hygiene Museum occupies a special place in the museum space, it has no analogues in our country, excursions are conducted by doctors. Getting to know the exposition will make you look at a person, his health, the world around him in a different way than before visiting the museum, more deeply and seriously. Agree, in modern conditions the relevance of the problem of a healthy lifestyle is obvious, and a basic level of knowledge about health is necessary for every person.

The museum is located in one of the best quarters of old St. Petersburg, in a mansion built in 1755 for the educator and philanthropist of the times of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna I.I. Shuvalov.