Exhibitions of the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic

About exhibition

The Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic is the largest museum in the world whose collection (about 100,000 exhibits) is devoted to polar subjects. The displays include archaeological monuments and relics related to the history of the development of the Northern Sea Route, including a collection of Pomor household items from the first half of the 17th century, found by expeditions led by A. P. Okladnikov (1945) in the far northeast of Taymyr and by M. I. Belov (1968–1973) at the site of the former Russian town of Mangazeya. The exhibitions tell of significant events in the Arctic, including the world's first Arctic icebreaker 'Yermak' (1899–1901), the activities of the Hydrographic Expedition of the Arctic Ocean (1910–1915), the voyage of the icebreaker 'Krasin' to rescue members of the Italian airship 'Italia' expedition (1928), the operation of the first drifting 'North Pole' stations and the first Soviet Antarctic expeditions.