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State Museum of Urban Sculpture | M.K. Anikushin's Workshop
Vyazemsky per., 6
The M.K. Anikushin Memorial Workshop is a branch of the Museum of Urban Sculpture, and in the past, the workspace of the famous Leningrad sculptor Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin (1917-1997). Famous monuments were once born here, and now everyone can get acquainted with the side of the life of monuments that is usually hidden from the viewer - from the appearance of the first sketch on paper to sending the finished model to the factory for casting in bronze.
The building is striking in its size: a huge hall, 15-meter-high ceilings, a window almost half the wall. This is the only workshop in St. Petersburg for working on monumental monuments, a specific architectural space. The workshop has preserved tools and equipment: a metal sculpture machine, which in the past was the base of a construction crane, a clay pit, a dotted machine.
Mikhail Anikushin worked here for almost 30 years: from 1969, when the building was built, until his death in 1997. Within these walls, the Lenin monument on Moskovsky Prospekt, the "Heroic Defenders of Leningrad" monument on Victory Square, the Chekhov monument for Moscow, a large number of portraits and memorial sculptures were created. Part of the exhibition is dedicated to Anikushin's most famous work, the Pushkin monument on Arts Square.
You can explore the museum on your own, take a free audio guide or book a tour. The large hall hosts temporary exhibitions, and master classes for children and adults, concerts, and festivals are regularly held.
