Kunstkamera
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The Kunstkamera (
Russian Academy of Science's Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Russian
: Музей антропологии и этнографии имени Петра Великого Российской академии наук, Muzey antropologii i etnografii imeni Petra Velikogo Rossiyskoy akademii nauk), abbreviated in Russian as the МАЭ or МАЭ РАН.
History
As part of
deformities, particularly in order to debunk superstitious fear of monsters. In particular, he issued a ukase ordering malformed stillborn infants to be sent from anywhere in Russia to the imperial collection. He subsequently had them put on show in the Kunstkamera as examples of accidents of nature.[1]
The present Kunstkamera is a turreted
Georg Johann Mattarnovy. Its foundation stone was laid in 1719 and it was fully completed in 1727. A separate building had become necessary after the purchase of large collections from the Dutch pharmacologist Albertus Seba in 1716 and the Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch in 1717. Examination and organization of these collections also spurred the creation of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A third acquisition came from Jacob de Wilde, a collector of gems and scientific instruments. These purchases were largely organized by Robert Erskine, Peter's chief physician, and his secretary Johann Daniel Schumacher.[2]
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
In the 1830s, the Kunstkamera collections were dispersed to newly established imperial museums, the most important being the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, established in 1879. It has a collection approaching 2,000,000 items and has been known as the Peter the Great Museum since 1903 in order to distinguish it from the Russian Museum of Ethnography. In 1747 some objects were lost in a fire.
List of directors
- Leopold Schrenk(1879–94)
- Vasily Radlov (1894–1918)
- Vasily Bartold (1918–21)
- Yefim Karskiy(1921–30)
- Nikolay Matorin (1930–36)
- Dmitry Olderogge (1935–40)
- Nikolai Kislyakov (1940–48)
- Leonid Potapov (1948–1967)
- Lyudmila Saburova (1967–1982)
- Rudolf Its (1982–1990)
- Nikolai Girenko (1991–92)
- Alexander Myl’nikov (1992–97)
- Chuner Taksami (1997–2001)
- Yuri Chistov (2001–present)[3]
See also
- List of museums in Saint Petersburg
- Globe of Gottorf (one of the museum's main artistic pieces)
- Pushkin House (occupied the rooms in the Kunstkamera building in 1905–27)
Notes
- ^ Driessen-Van het Reve, J.J. (2006) De Kunstkamera van Peter de Grote. De Hollandse inbreng, gereconstrueerd uit brieven van Albert Seba en Johann Daniel Schumacher uit de jaren 1711–1752. English summary, pp. 335–336.
- ^ Driessen-Van het Reve, J.J. (2006) De Kunstkamera van Peter de Grote. De Hollandse inbreng, gereconstrueerd uit brieven van Albert Seba en Johann Daniel Schumacher uit de jaren 1711–1752. English summary, pp. 337–338.
- ^ Kunstkamera
Bibliography
- Cahiers d'Études africaines39, no. 155/156: 681–699.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kunstkamera.
- Official website of the Kunstkamera (in English)
- Kunstkamera, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Saint Petersburg)
- Photo (1024 × 768)
- Peter’s collection lives on: Russia's oldest museum marks 300th birthday
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