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10.10.2011 | Exhibition project «In the Mirrors of Times: Dialogue of Cultures in the “Russian World”».
On October 8, 2011 the exhibition project «In the Mirrors of Times: Dialogue of Cultures in the “Russian World”» was presented within the frames of the XI Annual Session of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations" (Rhodes, Greece).
01.06.2011 | The exhibition “In the Mirrors of Time. Peoples of Russia through the Eyes of Photographers at the Turn of the 19th–20th Centuries (from the Collections of St. Petersburg Kunstkamera)” was opened in Slovenia
On May 25, 2011 the Russian cultural center in Ljubljana (Slovenia) held the opening of the exhibition titled “In the Mirrors of Time. Peoples of Russia through the Eyes of Photographers at the Turn of the 19th–20th Centuries (from the Collections of St. Petersburg Kunstkamera)”.
22.11.2010 | The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Kunstkamera Museum and the National Museums of Kenya and the donation of the exhibition project "In the mirrors of time (Kenya photo collection by Gerhard Lindblom)"
On November 16, 2010 in Nairobi, within the framework of the visit of Mr Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, to the Republic of Kenya, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Museums of Kenya. Prof. Efim Rezvan, Kunstkamera Deputy Director, and Dr. Idle Omar Farah, the Director General of the National Museums of Kenya, signed the documents in the presence of the heads of the foreign offices of both countries. The Memorandum makes provision for a broad scientific cooperation between the two institutions.
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|  | | UNIQUE ILLUSTRATIVE ARCHIVE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE The online catalog of collection images from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been launched. This is one of the most significant archive collections in Russia, containing digitized photo prints, glass plates, negative and positive films, postcards, sketches and other materials which constitute a valuable visual anthropology source since the mid 19th century till nowadays. The project was implemented thanks to the grant from the Ford Foundation. The catalogue is available here | | | |  | | CELESTIAL BOAT. Chinese Mechanical Toy
The World of an Object As early as the 3rd century B.C. Qin Shi-huang, establisher of the Chinese Empire, attending to endless longevity was time after time sending expeditions to the distant seas looking for the islands haunted with the celestial immortals: people - rulers of the time, elements and wonderful creatures, - in pleasure of eternity sailing the seas by unseen boats resistant to any storms. By celestial boats. More | | | |
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