The First Scientific Collections of Kunstkamera: Exhibition Guide

Издательство: MAE RAS
Год издания: 2012
ISBN: 978-5-88431-194-7
УДК: 57(069.7)
ББК: 28г+28.7
Guide to the exhibition «The First Scientific Collections of Kunstkamera» – the third edition of the series «Halls of Kunstkamera». The guide tells the history of the Peter the Great’s oldest public museum in Russia – Kunstkamera – and about its first scientific collections – cabinet of «naturalies», introduces the collection of F. Ruysch and A. Seba, bought by Peter in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 18th century, and the teratological collection, acquired in Russia by decree of Tsar.