The State Museum of Oriental Art was founded on October 30, 1918. It is one of the biggest cultural and elucidative center in Russia, which offers a large collection of Art of the Far and Middle East, as well as the Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, Buryatia, Chukchi Peninsula, etc. Also, the museum collections include examples of painting, graphic arts, sculpture, decorative and applied arts of Japan, China, Korea, Iran, India, Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia and many other countries (more than 100).