Museum "Nyenskans" is a historical and archaeological museum in St. Petersburg, which is located on the Promenade des Anglais, 6. This - the first and only museum exhibition which describes the background of the city.

Museum "Nyenskans" was formed May 24, 2003 with the participation of the project manager Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kiselev. Originally the museum was called "700 Years - Landskrona, the Neva Estuary, Nienschanz." The museum is housed in a former Petrozavod, which stands on the site once the existing Nienschanz Now "Nyenskans" is a project of the "Okhta" - Support Fund of Cultural Heritage "Ohta". The area of ​​exposition and exhibition area of ​​250 sq.m.

The tour of the museum is a spectacular journey through time, which begins in the Middle Ages and ends today. Before visitors presents enormous historical formation (more than 7 centuries of history) with a lot of wars and great victories and defeats of the powerful, consisting of stories as generals and kings, and the smallest of the everyday details of bygone eras.

The exposition was opened in the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg. The basis for the museum's permanent exhibition were the materials of archaeological excavations that were conducted in the years 1992-2000 St. Petersburg archaeological expedition IHMC, GIS Heritage at the mouth of the Okhta River, on the territory of settlements of pre-Petrine times. A separate part of the material is devoted to the study in 1999-2000, on the right bank of the river Ohta foundations of stone, the remains of houses made of wood, construction Nien (Swedish city) and the cemetery of the XVII century. The exhibition materials continue to emerge excavations carried out in the same area in 2007 in the framework of the establishment of public and business center Okhta.

The museum exhibition is divided into two zones: the static display and temporary exhibitions. The permanent exhibition tells the story of archeology of the North-West. Temporary exhibitions are devoted to the history of the most important events in the world of archeology and art. Visitors have the opportunity to go in the days of sailing ships, participate in archaeological expeditions to rediscover the obscure and half-forgotten pages of our history.

The museum displays archaeological remains, which were discovered in the course of the study area at the mouth of Okhta in the early 1990s: utensils, weapons, jewelry, household items, fragments of pipes; cartographic materials; reproductions of drawings, old engravings, paintings, depicting the history of the Neva territory pre-Petrine period and way of life of the city Nyen; Nieny diorama with Nienschanz; recovery equipment Swedish knight and Russian retainer (early XIV century).

Today in the Historical and Archaeological Museum "Nienschanz" is working on a new exhibition. Here are the findings of archeology, which reflect the history of the settlements, who lived in St. Petersburg to its formation in 1703 and materials on the archeology and history of the Baltic region.