FACILITIES

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Ticket Offices
The Catherine Park ticket offices are at every entrance to the park (ticketed admission to the park lasts May through September). Admission to the Alexander Park is currently free.
The Catherine Palace and Alexander Palace ticket offices are in the vestibules of the palaces.
Ticket offices of the exhibitions and park pavilions are near or at the entrances to them.

Toilets
There are toilets near the cloakrooms in the Catherine Palace (vestibule) and the Alexander Palace (east wing basement), in the Catherine Palace’s Zubov Wing below the Hanging Garden, and in the north yellow outbuilding near the blue semicircular wings of the Catherine Palace.  

Cloakrooms
The Catherine Palace cloakrooms are on the left of the main entrance in the vestibule.
The Alexander Palace cloakrooms are on the basement floor in the east wing and in the vestibule before the Suite of State Rooms.
Please note: the cloakrooms do not assume any responsibility for items left in the overcoats.
The following items should be left in the lockers: bags larger than 25x25 cm, umbrellas, gentlemen’s hats.
The cloakrooms and lockers are free, but the fee for a lost locker-key is 100 roubles.
The Museum reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to vary or alter these conditions without prior notice.

Lost Property
Lost property may be found at the Museum Administrator in the vestibules of the palaces.

Exchange Office and ATM
Located in the vestibule of the Catherine Palace

Eating and Drinking
There is a café in the Catherine Palace vestibule, a summer café at the Parterres of the Catherine Park, two restaurants and several kiosks in the area, as well as coffee vending machines in the vestibules of the palaces. More information

Shopping
There are several gift shops throughout the Catherine Palace vestibule, in the Catherine Park near the entrances and buildings, and in the Alexander Palace vestibule, as well as the Amber Art Shop in the Church Wing of the Catherine Palace (entrance from the street).