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Last update of repository: 24 June 2020

Muzei antropologii i etnografii im. Petra Velikogo RAN (Kunstkamera/MAE)


Otdel istorii Kunstkamery i otechestvennoi nauki XVIII v. (Muzei M.V. Lomonosova)
[Division of the History of Kunstkammer and 18th century Russian Science (M.V. Lomonosov Museum)]

Telephone: +7 812 328-12-11, +7 812 328-10-11

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: http://www.kunstkamera.ru/museums_str...

Director: Margarita Fedorovna Khartanovich (tel. +7 812 328-10-11); e-mail [email protected]


Holdings

Total: 170 units; 17th–18th c.

The museum, establishing in 1947 in the building of the Kunstkammer, where Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov (1711–1765) worked from 1741 to 1765, contains documentary and graphic materials which characterize the life and creative activities of Lomonosov, as well as his epoch. There are prints and engravings (17th–18th cc.) by E.P. Chemesov, D.T. Shmidt (Schmidt), and others, including portraits of Russian and West European statesmen and scientists, and views of St. Petersburg.

N.B. The personal fond of M.V. Lomonosov is held in the nearby St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PFA RAN, E–25).


Reference facilities:
There is a typewritten catalogue of the M.V. Lomonosov Museum collections.


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