The museum complex "The Universe of Water" is one of the new museums in Russia. Located in a water tower and a former underground reservoir Main Waterworks Shpalernaya Street, 56, in front of the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg. The tower was built in brick style in the period from 1859 to 1862 years, architects EG Shuberskim and IA Merz. The museum shows the history, current state and prospects for water supply and sanitation Petersburg, the use of water in the home, the state of water resources.

Museum and Exhibition Complex "Water World of St. Petersburg" (rooms in the III, IV and VI floors) combines the historic and contemporary exhibition, the idea of ​​traditional and interactive museum. Some of the exhibited objects can touch and see them in action.

The exhibition "The Underground World of St. Petersburg" is a multimedia complex, located in the left wing of the Water Tower. Here, in a huge hall installed a giant mock-up center (scale 1: 500), which tells of the way the water under the earth. On the floor it is shown Neva seen in it on the right and left sides of the river flow, both on its shores lies the town and how the dam blocks a bay. Visitors have the opportunity to travel to the "dungeon". Along with the water they pass all its road, first turn on the waterworks, and then - under the ground where the pipe, then - in the basement of an apartment house, in a sewer, which is used water, and then - on the sewage treatment plants, and finally, at the bottom of the Gulf of Finland on board the submarine. These steps show visitors the water cycle in the city and the problem of water intake and sewage treatment.

Next multimedia exhibition called "The Universe of Water". Located in the former clean water reservoir. The theme of water: water as a reference, as the greatest mystery of water, water as music, water as medicine, water as a destroyer. The surrounding space of the museum visitors changeable as water itself: changing visuals, sound, light.

At the III floor is a historical exhibition, consisting of 2-parts: the first tells the story of the water in the history of human civilization, and the Water Supply and Sanitation of the peoples of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Assyria, ancient Greece and Rome, and medieval Europe. Separately, there is a story about water in Russia. The second part of the exhibition is dedicated to water and wastewater of St Petersburg since its inception and until 1858.

In the IV and V floors contains materials on water supply and sanitation Petersburg in 1858-1917, respectively. It begins in 1858 with the story of the St. Petersburg "Vodokanal". The exposition is dedicated to the design and construction of water and sewer networks, the development of water treatment facilities, water quality control. Whole sections tell about the use of water in the home, on the job training, research, inventions in the field of water supply and sanitation. At the V floor of the restored interior of the cabinet of the control of the St. Petersburg Water Works. Here stands installed biographies leaders of the St. Petersburg water and sewage previous years.

VI and VII floors of the exhibition tells about the water and sewage of St. Petersburg from 1917 to the present time. Chronologically, the exhibition begins from the VII floor, where there are materials before the war. At the VI floor tells of Leningrad "Vodokanal" in World War II, post-war reconstruction of water supply and sewerage systems, the subsequent development of water supply and sanitation, modern "Vodokanal of St. Petersburg". Here you can see the achievements of the enterprise.