Collection

The collection on ethnography of Sámi has exclusive importance because it is the largest fund in our country uniting the artifacts of culture of the  Sámi of Russia, Norway and Finland.

 The museum is rightfully proud of its outstanding collections of artifacts of traditional culture of the peoples of Caucasus and Crimea

Today the collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography of the culture of the peoples of the Extreme North, Siberia and the Far East numbers about 50 000 ethnographic artifacts. Being the largest in the world, the collection of the Siberian region is the most valuable source characterizing all the aspects of culture of 36 Siberian peoples.

The largest collection on the Ainu culture (3000 items) occupies particular place in the museum fund. Formation of collection on the culture of this scarcely studied people dates from to the early XX century.

The fund numbers about 16000 keeping items.  It includes drawings, watercolors, engravings, estampages, examples of paper slotted ornaments, patterns and drawings of traditional costume and paintings. 

The RME Research Library is the largest carefully completed museum book collection on ethnography. It comprises 110, 000 printed editions in Russian and foreign languages and is a sample of books and journals on the ethnography of the peoples of Russia and neighboring countries.

The museum collection of negatives and photographs comprises about 180 000 keeping items and includes the works made in the period from 1860 to 2000.

Today putting on mask we protect ourselves of surrounding persons. It helps us to construct the border between the world of humans and the dangerous world of bacteria.