Inside St. Petersburg's Winter Palace, a colony of resident cats has long held the line against rats and mice — and this animated feature turns that real-world job into a family fantasy adventure.

What is Cats in the Museum about?

Cats in the Museum imagines what goes on after the doors of the State Hermitage close for the night. The animated family film follows the museum's real feline guardians, reimagined here with voices and personalities, as they take on a fantasy quest to defend their halls from a rodent threat. Director Vasily Rovensky builds the story around the genuine tradition of resident cats patrolling the Winter Palace, then layers in a lighter, adventure-driven plot aimed at younger viewers and the families watching alongside them. Colorful set pieces move between the museum's grand rooms as the cats organize to protect what's theirs, with each character given a distinct role in the group.

About the cast

The English-language voice cast is led by Jordan Worsley and Stephen Peter Krisel, alongside Maria Smakhtina, Michael Kleeman, Nikki Aaron, Anton Eldarov, Polina Gagarina and Aleksandr Gavrilin, giving the ensemble of museum cats a wide range of personalities to work with.

Context & significance

Cats in the Museum comes from Russia and arrived in 2023 as an animated family fantasy, a genre combination aimed squarely at viewers looking for gentle adventure rather than edge. The Winter Palace setting gives the film a distinctive backdrop that few animated features outside Russia have used, and building a story around the Hermitage's real cats gives the premise a grounded hook even as the plot heads into fantasy territory.

Watching Cats in the Museum on Ktime

Cats in the Museum streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles available, making it an easy pick for family movie nights in Farsi. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to read without signing in first. K-Time's Farsi-first interface is built for exactly this kind of family viewing, letting parents queue up something light and visually driven for younger audience members.