The State Museum of the History of Religion

The State Museum of the History of Religion is the only one in Russia and one of the few museums in the world which expositions represent the history of the appearing and development of religion. The museum has about 200,000 exhibits. These are monuments of history and culture of different countries, epochs and peoples: from archaic, Ancient Egypt and Israel to the early European Middle Ages; from ancient Greece and Rome to modern times; Buddhism and Islam. The oldest exhibits of the museum collection are archaeological finds dating back to the 6th millennium BC.