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Area:Moscow : Central part Sightseeing Genre: Museum
: History & Culture For Travel alone For Senior For group
This museum was opened in 1894. This museum houses various archaeological and anthropological collections into a single museum that told the story of the history of Russia from the Paleolithic period to the present day with highlights including Scythian gold figures, funerary masks from the Altai and the Turmanskiy Sarcophagus, a unique mixture of Hellenic architecture and Chinese decoration. History of Russia's rulers is also interesting exhbiting a number of paintings, court costumes, thrones and Carlo Rastrelli's silver death mask of Peter the Great.
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