You will enjoy a visit to the Russian Museum of Ethnography, one of the largest museums of the kind both in Russia and in the world, often nicknamed "The Ethnographic Hermitage". Its collection numbers 500 000 original ethnographic items and photographs belonging to 158 nations and nationalities that inhabited the territory of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation at various times. During the 100 years of its history, the museum acquired a unique collection, which has no analogues in the world in terms of its ethnic and geographical range, and thematic diversity, including ceramics, textiles, ornaments, wooden and metal objects, national costumes and so on. Each nationality produced items of applied art of a peculiar character which reflected their national identity and spiritual culture.

The Russian Museum of Ethnography offers its visitors a unique chance to dive back into history and see how people worked and rested in the old days, how they built and arranged their homes, how they dressed, brought up children and worshipped their gods. Each of the museum’s many departments bears a unique look, peculiar to this or that nationality.

Here one can admire the versatile and amazing traditional cultures of different peoples and nations. Each of them created its own ethnic style corresponding to the peculiar living environments and its own notions of beauty.