- The Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography is almost exclusively known by its original name of the Kunstkamera.
- The Kunstkamera or Kunstkammer is a public museum located on the Universitetskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg, facing the Winter Palace.
- The Kunstkamera is the museum most famous for hosting Peter's chamber of horrors, filled with skeletons and deformed foetuses, but that's just one room.
- The Kunstkamera (Russian: Кунсткамера) was the first museum in Russia. ... Read more about Kunstkamera: History, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography.
- The Kunstkamera building hosts the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography that features a collection of almost 2 million items.
- The film’s title Kunstkamera is a pun on the Emperor’s Kunstkammer – for here, Jan ... Švankmajer, now 88, has declared Kunstkamera to be his final work.
- The figure shown in the Kunstkamera was carved from the tusk of a mammoth. The exhibit is approximately 21-23 thousand years old.
- But the Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg is more than a collection of malformed beings. Moreover it is one of the world’s largest collection of anthropological and...
- Think twice about bringing young children here, and consider giving Kunstkamera a wide berth if you are pregnant yourself.