Saint Petersburg State Museum-institute of the Roerichs is situated on Basil Island, in academic M.P. Botkin's old residence, where N.K. Roerich had been many times. The basis of memorial exposition of Museum-institution is heritage, kept by E.I. Roerich's niece - Lydmila Stepanovna Mitusova and her family. During some years of existence of museum owners of private collections have given to museum a row of art and other kind of exhibits. To date its funds consist of about 15 thousand things: private things, manuscripts, paintings, arts and crafts, archeological finds, photographs and other cultural treasure, reflecting wide context of life and creation of the Roerichs.

    Itself name Museum-institute means that it was forethought not only as a museum in a general meaning of this word, but also as a science centre of research of our great compatriot's heritage