Want to know where the gunpowder was introduced and who is the inventor of compass? Who gave the paper to the world, porcelain, silk? How and where were made spices and herbs which in the middle Ages equated to gold and precious stones? On which continent a man appeared for the first time? Answers to all these questions could be found in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of people of the world - the Kunstkammer - the Cabinet of Curiosities. Exhibits collections of the museum tell about life, beliefs, rites of peoples of India, China, America, Africa and many - many others. Some of the exhibits - are unique, as are preserved only here. The history of the "cabinet of curiosities" - begins in Peter's time. This is the first public museum in Russia. His foundation is the collection of Dutch anatomist Ruysch. Human and animal born monsters, small figures, minerals.
