The
Kunstkamera was the first museum in Russia. Established by Peter the Great and completed in 1727, the
Kunstkammer Building hosts the
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, with a collection of almost 2,000,000 items. It is located on the
Universitetskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg. Peter's museum was a cabinet of curiosities
dedicated to preserving "natural and human curiosities and rarities", a
very typical type of collection in the period. The tsar's personal
collection, features a large assortment of human and animal fetuses with anatomical deficiencies, which Peter had seen in 1697 visiting Frederick Ruysch and Levinus Vincent. The underlying idea of their kunstkammers was to acquire full knowledge of the world.
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