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- Research Departments
- Arctic Research Center
- Europe Research Center
- Department of Australia, Oceania and Indonesia
- Department of America
- Department of Physical Anthropology
- Department of Archeology
- Department of Africa
- Department of East and Southeast Asia
- Department of Caucasus
- Department of Siberia
- Department of Central Asia
- Department of South and Southwest Asia
- Department of the History of Kunstkamera and 18th-century Russian Science (M.V. Lomonosov museum)
- Laboratory of Audiovisual Anthropology
- Laboratory "The International Center of Islamic Studies"
- Laboratory of Museum Technologies
- Management and Museum Services
Laboratory of Audiovisual Anthropology
Head of Laboratory
Ekaterina TOLMACHEVA, Cand.Sc.
Laboratory Staff
Levon AYVAZYAN, Photographer
Aleksandr KOPANEV, Junior Reseacher
Stanislav SHAPIRO, Photographer
Main objectives and activities
- Digital photography of museum specimens during the design and implementation of exhibition projects (permanent and temporary exhibitions at MAE, traveling exhibitions in Russia and abroad);
- Digital photography of museum specimens for MAE publications;
- Digital photography of museum specimens for other publications, at requests from Russian and foreign research centers on contract and agreement basis;
- Digitalization of the MAE analogous photographic funds (negatives and prints);
- Procession of digital photographs and scans;
- Creation of a digital archive of the MAE RAS collections;
- Creation of a digital archive of photographic and illustrative collections of the MAE RAS;
- Photography of permanent and temporary exhibitions at MAE;
- Photography of all important events in the museum and scientific life of the MAE RAS;
- Photography for the museum web site;
- Storage, procession and systematization of field audio-, video-, and photographic materials in digital format;
- Carrying out of specialized ethnographical photo-expeditions