Russian Ethnographic Museum

The Russian Ethnographic Museum is one of the largest ethnographic museums in Europe. Its repositories contain cultural monuments of 157 peoples of Eurasia (the territory of the former Russian Empire). The collection of the museum allows you to comprehensively present the culture and life of both large and small peoples, the number of which does not exceed one hundred or two hundred people. The main part of the exhibits dates from the XIX - early XX century. Monuments provide an opportunity to show the economic activity of the people, folk architecture and home life, ritual practice, religious performances, traditional experience of raising children, samples of artistic creativity. The museum also has a rich collection of photographs and negatives, including photographs of the middle - second half of the XIX century, and an interesting fund of ethnographic drawings, graphics, paintings. The manuscript department of the museum contains materials of the "Ethnographic Bureau" of V. N. Tenishev, his main treasure, which make it possible to study the life of Russian peasants at the turn of the XIX-XX century. The museum has expositions telling about the traditional culture of the peoples of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, as well as the exposition Slavs of Eastern Europe. Man in an ethno-cultural space. Very popular among visitors is the exhibition of precious metal products - "Special pantry". The museum has a Children's Ethnographic Center, where through an exciting game, experiment, each child receives an impulse to self-realization.