The Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography is preparing to carry out local restoration of the Kunstkamera building on Universitetskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg. The building of the “cabinet of rarities” was laid in 1718 according to the project of architect G.Mattarnovi. The construction was carried out until 1727 under the supervision of architects N. Gerbel, G. Kiaveri and M. Zemtsov.