The Russian ethnographic museum

The Russian ethnographic museum is situated in the City of Saint Petersburg. The museum’s exhibition collection has around the 500 thousand collectable items, which are related to the ethnography and the cultural anthropology of the peoples in the former Russian empire and the Soviet Union. The museum was founded as the ethnographic department in the Russian museum in 1902. It is situated in the neo-classical separate building, which was built in 1902 - 1913. Today, the Russian ethnographic museum is one of the biggest museums in the World. It is usually called as «The ethnographic hermitage». The gifts, which were obtained by the Russian tsars from the people in the Russian empire, were collected and became known as the first museum’s exhibits. The additional museum exhibits came from the regular research expeditions at the different regions within the Russian empire. Specifically, they came from the research expeditions to the Podillya region since 1901. Mr. Oleksandr Lazhechnikov, Mr. Oleksandr Prusevich, Mr. Konstyantyn Shyrits’ky, the ethnographers, actively contributed the to museum’s exhibition collection development. For example, Mr. Konstyantyn Shyrits’ky, an ethnographer, was able to bring up to the 400 ceramics items together with the ceramic samples by the Bar potters-masters to the museum’s exhibition collection during his single expedition to the Region of Podillya from the City of Saint Petersburg. That is why, a big number of the Bar ceramics unique samples is stored in the museum’s exhibition fund storages. Address: Russian ethnographic museum,          4/1 Engineering Street,          Saint Petersburg 191011,          Russian Federation          Tel.: +7 812 570-53-20             Tel.: (812) 570-52-28             Е-mail: info@ethnomuseum.ru