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Last update of repository: 24 June 2020

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


Nauchnyi arkhiv
[Scientific Archive]

Telephone: +7 812 328-41-81

E-mail: [email protected]

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

Head: Kseniia Vadimovna Radetskaia (tel. +7 812 328-41-81)


Holdings

Total: 43 fonds; 10,307 units; 1719–1993
institutional fonds—4 (1719–1993); institutional collections—7; personal papers—39 fonds (1776–1986)

The Scientific Archive holds two institutional fonds—”the records of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography and its predecessors (1719–1993), although a part of the records are in St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PFA RAN, E–25), and the Pedagogical Institute of the Peoples of the North (1929–1941). These include scholarly writings, reports and other materials relating to expeditions, minutes of the meetings of the Scientific Council and scientific sessions, plans and reports, correspondence relating to international relations, and documentation on the history of the Kunstkammer—Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, and on the history of the building.
        Personal fonds include those of ethnographers, archeologists, anthropologists, Orientalists, linguists, and folklorists, who worked in the Institute, including E.E. Blomkvist, N.V. Kiuner, B.A. Kuftin, E.R. Leper, N.A. and A.N. Lipskii, A.A. Popov, G.M. Vasilevich, and S.N. Zamiatin, among others. Among documentation are records and field materials from ethnographic, archeological, and anthropological expeditions in European parts of Russia, the Volga region and the Urals, Siberia, the Far East, the Caucasus, and the Near East. These include notes on life, economy, religion, folklore, linguistics, marriage and family life, and social structure of peoples of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, andother countries. There are also unpublished articles and dissertations. Some of the fonds contain photographs, plans, drawings, and other graphic materials.

N.B. Earlier folklore collections, including the prerevolutionary collections of the Tenishev Bureau and the Museumof Anthropology and Ethnography, along with the rich Phonogram Archive of the Institute, were transferred to Pushkin House (E–28) in 1938. However, the main part of the Tenishev collection is held in the of Russian Ethnographic Museum(H–272).
        The records of the museum and institute (documentation dating from 1719–1954), including materials from the ethnographic collections of the Kunstkammer during the eighteenth century, are held in PFA RAN (E–25, fond 142; electronically: http://isaran.ru/isaran/isaran.php?pa...).


Reference facilities:
Researchers have access to the inventory opisi of fonds and alphabetical catalogues. The list of archival fonds of MAE available on the website: http://www.kunstkamera.ru/museums_str....


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