The Central Naval Museum - one of the oldest museums in Russia and one of the largest maritime museums in the world. The museum originates from the St. Petersburg Model Chamber - shipbuilding storage models and drawings. During the three centuries of its existence, the museum has collected a huge amount of valuable museum objects that reflect the most important events in the history of the fleet. The museum funds kept more than 700 000 objects. There are more than 13 000 objects of naval equipment, more than 11 000 units of weapons and firearms, more than 62,000 works of art, more than 56 000 objects uniforms, awards and decorations, flags and banners, more than 44 000 documents and manuscripts, about 300 000 photographs and negatives, hundreds of thousands of sheets of drawings.