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More than forty exhibits from the collections of the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkamera) will be exhibited at the British Museum. A large exhibition on the culture and climate of the Arctic will open in the London museum in May. Some of the items will be shown abroad for the first time, TASS reports.
The creators of the exhibition plan to show the peoples living in the Arctic and to focus on the urgent problem of global climate change in the world. Shamanistic headdresses, caftans, tambourines and masks brought from Siberian expeditions, as well as two-thousand years old archaeological finds from Yamal, will travel to London.
According to the director of the Kunstkamera Andrey Golovnev, the project of the British Museum will allow the Kunstkamera collection to be presented at “the world museum arena”, as well as to reveal the theme of the global warming, which is one of the most important scientific topics for employees of the St. Petersburg museum.
Russian scientists supplied the exhibits with descriptions and comments that will help to more widely represent the problem of global warming, including its ethnographic and folklore aspect. According to Andrey Golovnev, the Nenets legend tells of a flood that comes every two thousand years, destroying all life on the planet.
Russkiy Mir
