An exhibition of photographs from the collection of Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin, organized jointly with the Earth Science Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University, has opened in the Maritime Exhibition Center of the Museum of the World Ocean in Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad region. Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin (1843-1923) was a famous Russian anthropologist, ethnographer, archaeologist, geographer, and museologist. D.N. Anuchin was active in spreading geographical knowledge and creating a Russian university geography school, and educated a great number of students. Dmitry Nikolayevich was at the origin of the creation of the Geographical Museum of Moscow University, which he headed for more than 20 years. The exhibition shows about 70 prints of photographs of the Russian North of the late 19th-early 20th centuries from D.N. Anuchin’s photo collection. A significant part of the collection (more than 3.5 thousand units) is now stored in the funds of the Earth Science Museum of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The World Ocean Museum presents the exhibition “Oceania Distant and Near” within the framework of the Fifth International Scientific and Practical Conference, “Problems of studying and preserving the marine heritage” (October 5-9, 2021). This exhibition, integrated into the exposition “People of the Sea” in the Maritime Exhibition Center of our museum in Svetlogorsk, is dedicated to the history of the eighteenth voyage of the NIS Dmitry Mendeleev in 1976-77 to Oceania, for the purpose of comprehensive study of the Pacific Islands. Scientists carried out oceanological work and studied the nature and population of this amazing territory, while the artists accompanying the expedition, M. L. Plakhova and B. V. Alekseev, created hundreds of wonderful works vividly conveying exotic life, types, traditions and unique culture of the Oceania islands.

The World Ocean Museum has opened an exhibition dedicated to the famous circumnavigation of the world by Captain V.M. Golovnin on the sloop Kamchatka in 1817-1819, the results of which were reflected in a series of watercolor drawings by the artist M.T. Tikhanov (1789-1862). The unique heritage of the master, preserved by the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, is the most valuable artistic and documentary material, telling about the discoveries of the Russian navigators, which are still significant in terms of science and fine arts. The joint project of the Museum of the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and the World Ocean Museum in Kaliningrad made it possible to rediscover the masterpieces of M.T. Tikhanov, who, unfortunately, is still little known to the general public.