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Located on the banks of the Neva in the center of St.Petersburg, the Kunstkammer has been the symbol of the Russian Academy of Sciences since the early 18th century. Founded to Peter the Great’s Decree, the Museum opened to the public in 1714. Its purpose was to collect and examine natural and human curiosities and rarities. Today, collections of Peter the Great’s Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkammer) are among the most complete and interesting in the world. These collections contain over one million artifacts and reflect the diversity of traditional cultures in the Old and New World. The Museum has always been one of the world’s largest centers where human cultural heritage is studied, continuing the traditions of the great Russian cultural and physical anthropologists of the 18 - 20th centuries. We are pleased to welcome you to the pages of our museum where we hope you will find interesting and useful information about the peoples and cultures of the world. Press Releases
19.10.2009 | “Between Turkestan and Tibet" project by Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences on Rhodes (Greece)
On October 9, 2009, the MAE RAS photo project “Between Turkestan and Tibet” was presented 'within the frames of the VII Annual Session of the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” (Rhodes, Greece). The project presents in part the preliminary results of the historico-ethnological expedition “Muslims of Chinese Turkestan: Uyghurs of Xinjiang and Salars of Qinghai” by Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography realized in 2008 according to the Agreement on scientific cooperation between the MAE RAS and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Academy of Social Sciences of the People's Republic of China. The exhibition which was held within the guidelines of “Ijma‘=Concord” project presents the works by photo artist Tatiana Fedorova, the expedition participant.
13.07.2009 | Another “Ijma‘=Concord” project expedition (India/Kerala, Tamilnadu―Sri Lanka―Maldives): preliminary results
From March 3rd―18th, 2009 within the framework of the media and scholarly project “Ijma‘=Concord” a historical and ethnological expedition along the basic itinerary India/Kerala, Tamil-Nadu―Sri Lanka―Maldives was realized. The expedition route was developed in a way that allowed visiting a number of most important cultural and religious centers of the central part of the Great Silk Road. The latter was described in detail by the famous medieval traveler Ibn Battuta (1304—1369 or 1377). During twelve days of field work the expedition took six flights and covered about a thousand kilometers on ground and sea transportation.
19.03.2009 | New on-line exhibition "Montenegrin Ethnographic Collection as Historical Monument"
New on-line exhibition "Montenegrin Ethnographic Collection as Historical Monument" presents rare for the Russian museums items related to traditional material culture of the Montenegrins of the first quarter of the 19th century as well as tells an intriguing history of their coming to Russia.
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