The Kunstkamera

Do you know which museum was the first in Russia?

The Kunstkamera or the museum of anthropology and ethnography! It's one of the richest ethnographical museums in the world founded by Peter the Great more than 300 years ago.

It is famous largely for its collection of multi handed and malformed babies in jars, two-headed mutants and deformed animals collected by Peter. But much more inrteresting in my opinion are exhibitions of ethnographic artifacts from around the world.