Museum of Religious History (St. Petersburg)

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The State Museum of Religious History on Pochtamtskaya Street in St. Petersburg
View from Nevsky Prospect to the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg

The State Museum of Religious History ( Russian: Государственный музей истории религии / Gossudarstwenny musei istorii religii; scientific transliteration Gosudarstvennyj muzej istorii religii ) in St. Petersburg , Russia , was opened in 1932. It is considered the only one in Russia and one of the few museums in the world that presents the history of the origins and development of religions. Its collection includes around 250,000 exhibits, the oldest of which date back to the 6th millennium BC. According to its director, it has the "largest collection of religious history of all countries, peoples and epochs".

The museum was located in the Kazan Cathedral on Nevsky Prospect until 1999 , where it was called "Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism" during the Soviet era.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , atheism was abandoned as an exhibition theme, "the focus in the again quite godly exhibition is of course the Orthodox Church".

history

The museum was founded as part of the USSR Academy of Sciences and opened on November 15, 1932.

The exhibits in the initial collections came largely from the Kunstkammer (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography), the State Hermitage , the Library of the Academy of Sciences and the State Russian Museum .

The foundation of the museum was an anti-religious exhibition in 1930 in the halls of the opened Winter Palace in Leningrad. The official opening of the museum in the Kazan Cathedral took place on November 15, 1932. The initiator of the museum and its first director was the Russian religious historian, ethnologist and anthropologist Vladimir G. Bogoras (1865-1936). Michail I. Schachnowitsch (1911–1992), deputy director of the museum from 1944 to 1960, played a no less important role in the organization and operation of the museum. From 1976 to 1986 Jakow J. Koschurin (1937–1992) was director of the museum.

The historian and publicist Vladimir Dmitrijewitsch Bontsch-Brujewitsch (1873–1955) played a key role in the development of the museum .

Permanent exhibition

Today the museum presents the following permanent exhibitions:

After the reopening on April 26, 2012, the following topics will be exhibited in the museum:

One area in the museum is the permanent exhibition for children “Getting started”, a special children's section that was opened in February 2011.

Personalities

(Source: gmir.ru)

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Государственный музей истории религии: Главная страница , accessed April 24, 2017. (Museum website, Russian)
  2. ↑ a b Museum for the History of Religions. In: petersburg.aktuell.ru. August 2008, accessed April 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Michail Iosifovič Šachnovič (Russian Wikipedia)
  4. ↑ Jakov Jakovlevič Kožurin (Russian Wikipedia)
  5. ↑ Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич (Russian Wikipedia); scientific transliteration Vladimir Dmitrievič Bonč-Bruevič
  6. ↑ Museum history ( English ) gmir.ru. Retrieved September 11, 2019 (the English version differs from the Russian version)

See also

Web links

Museum of Religious History (alternative names of the lemma)
State Museum of Religious History; Museum of Religious History; Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism; Gossudarstwenny musei istorii religii; Государственный музей истории религии; Gosudarstvennyj muzej istorii religii; Museum of Atheism; Atheism museum; Museum of Atheism

Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 54 ″  N , 30 ° 18 ′ 6 ″  E