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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-272

Last update of repository: 18 March 2020

Rossiiskii etnograficheskii muzei (REM)


Access & Facilities

Access
Permission for research in the archives must be requested in an official letter stating the subject and aim of the research. In the case of foreign scholars, the letter should be addressed to, and permission is required from, the museum director; in the case of Russian (and CIS) nationals—from the chief curator. Fees are charged for research with higher fees for foreigners. The staff of institutions that have academic cooperation agreements with the Russian Ethnographic Museum are entitled to work in the archives free of charge.
        All processed archival fonds are currently open to researchers with the exception of the fond of the Tenishev Ethnographic Bureau (see h–1531 and h–1532). Permission for access to the library should be requested from the museum administration.

Library facilities
The REM Scientific Library (ca. 105,000 vols.) was founded in 1901 under the Ethnographic Division of the Russian Museum. The library has collected books on ethnography, history, and folk art. The library includes the private book collections of Grand Duke George (Georgii) Mikhailovich, the Slavic literature and folklore scholar A.N. Pypin, and the ethnographers E.N. Studenetskaia and B.Z. Gamburg (Library tel.: +7 812 570-59-45).


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