Russian Museum of Ethnography

The Russian Museum of Ethnography is a museum in St. Petersburg that houses a collection of about 500,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
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  • Opening hours: Tuesday—Sunday 11:00 AM—7:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Address: Инженерная улица 4/1 литЕ, Санкт-Петербург, 191186

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood and National Library of Russia.

Museum
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The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is a Russian Orthodox church in , which currently functions as a secular museum and church at the same time. is situated 390 metres northwest of Russian Museum of Ethnography.

Library
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The , located in , is the oldest of Russia's three national public libraries. The NLR is currently ranked among the world's major libraries. is situated 530 metres south of Russian Museum of Ethnography.

Theater building
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Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, officially the Saint Petersburg Academic Philharmonia Named After D. D. Shostakovich, is a music society located in , Russia, and is the name of the building where it is housed. is situated 250 metres southwest of Russian Museum of Ethnography.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint Petersburg and Apraksin Dvor.

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, known as Petrograd in 1914-1924 and Leningrad in 1924-1991, is the second largest city of Russia, with 5.6 million inhabitants, the fourth most populous city in Europe, the world's northernmost city of at least a million residents, and the former capital of the Russian Empire.

Suburb
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Apraksin Yard is a market and retail block in , , covering 14 hectares. It is currently under a massive long-term renovation project.

Neighborhood
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The is the original citadel of , Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress.

Russian Museum of Ethnography

Latitude
59.93795° or 59° 56′ 17″ north
Longitude
30.33433° or 30° 20′ 4″ east
Inception
1902—1913
Levels
2
Open location code
9GFGW8QM+5P
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q1058832
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Russian Museum of Ethnography” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المتحف الروسي للإثنوغرافيا”
  • Armenian: “Ազգագրության ռուսական թանգարան”
  • Belarusian: “Расійскі этнаграфічны музей”
  • Bulgarian: “Руски етнографски музей”
  • Chinese: “俄罗斯博物馆”
  • Dutch: “Rossiyskiy etnografitsjeskiy moezey”
  • French: “musée russe d’Ethnographie”
  • French: “Musée russe d’Ethnographie”
  • French: “Musée Russe d’ethnographie”
  • Galician: “Museo Ruso de Etnografía”
  • Georgian: “რუსეთის ეთნოგრაფიული მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Russisches Museum für Ethnographie”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון הרוסי לאתנוגרפיה”
  • Italian: “Museo Etnografico Russo di San Pietroburgo”
  • Italian: “Museo etnografico russo”
  • Japanese: “ロシア民族誌博物館”
  • Russian: “Государственные музей этнографии народов СССР”
  • Russian: “Государственный музей этнографии народов России”
  • Russian: “Музей этнографии”
  • Russian: “Российский этнографический музей”
  • Russian: “Этнографический музей”
  • Spanish: “Museo de la Etnografico Rusa”
  • Swedish: “Ryska etnografiska museet”
  • Tatar: “Русия этнография музее”
  • Ukrainian: “Державний музей етнографії народів Росії”
  • Ukrainian: “Державний музей етнографії народів СРСР”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей народів СРСР”
  • Ukrainian: “Російський етнографічний музей”
  • “Российский этнографический музей”

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