The Russian Ethnographic Museum was founded in 1901 as a branch of the Russian Museum. The right wing of the Mikhailovsky Palace was rebuilt in 1900-1911 by architect V. Svinyin in neoclassicism style for the collections of the Ethnographic Department.
The basic expositions consisting of the materials gathered before the Revolution of 1917 were opened to the public in 1923. In 1934 the Ethnographic Museum started to function as an independent one. Later its collections were enlarged, and after the World War II the museum got its modern name.
The Ethnographic Museum's collections are displayed in 24 halls. These contain ceramics, textiles, jewelry, metal and wooden works, national costumes, as well as different attributes of rituals and festive ceremonies. The museum also boasts numerous photos that help visitors to visualize calendar, wedding, funeral and other rites, many of which are of magic character.

 

The most spectacular part of Museum's interior is the Marble Hall, enormous rectangular room, designed in the tradition of classical Greco-Roman style, with inner courtyard and surrounding colonnade. It has a total of 1,000 square meters and a height of 17 meters. The walls, floors and stairs are reveted with precious sorts of pink Karelian marble. Today the Marble Hall is used for particularly important domestic and international functions and prestigious exhibitions.

Room	Area m2	Buffet	Banquet	«Theatre»
Marble Hall	935	500	350	300-400

Additional services:
- equipment (projectors, screens, microphones etc.)
- Palace tour
- organization of coffee breaks, buffets, dinners and banquets.

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