The Roerich Family Museum and Institute is a non-profit institution of culture registered by the Registration Chamber of St. Petersburg on May 11, 2001.

Project author -

St. Petersburg State University

Founder -
The International Charity Fund "The Roerich Heritage"

The Museum and Institute Main Goals:

• To provide continuity by revealing, preserving and studying of the Roerich family heritage, of their contemporaries and cultural environment
• To conduct scientific and artistic mastering of the Roerich heritage, thus making it popular
• To provide appropriate conditions for wide sharing of the materials about the Roerich family life and creative activities
• To assist the recreation of the Russian spiritual, cultural and historical traditions; to strengthen ethics principles in scientific and artistic creativity and life.

Scientific and educational programmes are developed with the assistance of St. Petersburg State University; consultancy is provided by the State Hermitage. All this, as well as collaboration with other city museums, guarantees the wide range of the Museum and Institute activities, and lets it function at the level of modern science achievements and museum management.
The project financial and everyday business support is provided by the International Charity Fund "The Roerich Heritage".