- Administration
- 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, Candidate of Sciences in History, Senior Reseacher
Laboratory Staff
Levon AYVAZYAN, Photographer
Aleksandr KOPANEV, Junior Reseacher
Stanislav SHAPIRO, Photographer
Vasilisa STRYUCHKOVA, Research Assistant
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