The "Nyenskans" Museum is the first historical and archeological museum in our city and the only one the exposition of which is completely devoted to a prehistory of our city. The Museum was opened during the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. The "Okhta Group" Company became its General Sponsor, and Bonnier Business Press CJS Company took part in founding the Museum 

The exposition was made mainly thanks to P. E. Sorokin and Institute of History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences(RAN). When in 2007 JSC "Gazprom Neft"  began to work on the project of the "Okhta Center" Public and Business Complex it was decided not only to preserve the Museum but to enlarge its expositional space. At present the "Gazprom Neft" is the General Sponsor for the Museum and all actions which are held in it.  

 The area of the Museum is divided into two parts, one for permanent exhibitions and another for temporary ones. The main exposition consists of the materials from the archeological excavations that were held since 1992 up till 2003 on the banks of the Okhta River where settlements were situated prior to St. Petersburg. As the archeological researches within the area have been continuing up till today the Museum exposition is constantly expanded with new finds and the information for visitors is specified and supplemented.

 An excursion around the museum is a great trip through times beginning in the middle ages and ending nowadays. A huge historical layer appears before the visitors, covering almost 700 years of history, with numerous wars, with great victories and shattering defeats, filled both with stories about kings and commanders and the smallest everyday details of the epochs gone by.

The room or the temporary exhibitions is occupied by the expositions with the contents and direction oriented to history and archeology. Our visitors are «going» into the epoch of the Sailing Fleet, take part in archeological expeditions, and newly discover partially forgotten and unknown pages of Russian history.