From the history of ethnographical museums in Moscow: the end of XIX - the beginning of XXI centuries.
The topic of this article is the history of the Moscow ethnographic museums: the Ethnographic department of the Rumyantsev museum, the Central ethnographic museum and the Ethnographic museum of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (IEA RAS). The ethnographic museum work in IEA RAS is being realized by the Ethnographic museum cabinet organized in the structure of the Institute in 1991. The number of its collections is over 200 and the quantity of items is more 3700 objects representing cultural diversity of Russia, various states of Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa. The IEA RAS Ethnographic museum is named after eminent scholar N. N. Cheboksarov because of the part he played in the establishment and development of ethnographic museum studies in Moscow. The history of Moscow ethnographic museums and the activities of IEA RAS Ethnographic museum serve as evidence of the necessity of large stationary ethnographic museum creation in the Russian capital.