Little Things is a series of exhibitions organized together with the Saint Petersburg State Museum of the City History and the PRO ARTE Institute.

The museum collection holds ca. one and a half million exhibits. They are not only paintings and sculptures, graphics and crafts, architectural sketches and models, but also a great number of objects that represent urban life of the 18-20th centuries. Among them are antique tobacco-pipes and fans, perfume bottles, pots and pans, faucets and typewriters, door handles and vacuum-cleaners. The museum visitors have a chance to view only minor part of those exhibits at the expositions and temporary exhibitions. Some of the objects have never been shown to the public and have been kept in the museum funds.

The word "little things" in Russian is a metaphor for an invention or a trick. The Little Things project has been invented by Lev Lurye, Petersburg historian, and is aimed to introduce a wonderful world of the most extraordinary and everyday objects held in the museum funds to the Petersburg citizens. Each exhibit has a history of its own, and museum custodians, historians and experts in the surroundings are ready to share it with the visitors. They know when a passport appeared, what a spittoon is, how telephones and typewriters looked a century ago, what role a corset played in the wardrobe of Petersburg dandies and ladies. This is just a small part of what can be learned thanks to Little Things.

Objects from the museum collection presented at the exhibitions of the series neighbor with works of contemporary art connected with the exhibits thematically and selected by the advisory council of the PRO ARTE Institute as a result of the grant competition.

The following exhibitions of the series took place in the year of 2003-2006:

Passport (March 14 - April 7, 2003)

Typewriters (May 16 - June 20, 2003)

Blok's Shirt (September 5 - October 3, 2003)

Drawing-Pen (March 12 - April 9, 2004)

Telephone (October 8 - 29, 2004)

Corset (December 10 - 29, 2004)

Musical Box (April 1 - 28, 2005)

Ocular (December 2 - 24, 2005)

Sewing-machine (March 10 - 31, 2006)

Mirror (December 1- 22, 2006)

Detskaya (June 20 - July 18, 2007)

Cosmic (December 7 - December 27, 2007)

Olympic (June 20 - July 15, 2008)

Marine (Сruiser Aurora) (December 19, 2008 - January 24, 2009)