The State Museum of Oriental Art is one of the largest cultural educational institutions of the Russian Federation. Now at the State Museum of Oriental Art there are opened and function the permanent expositions of Art of China, Korea, Japan, South-Eastern Asia, the Central Asia and Kazakhstan, the Caucasus, Art of Tibet, Art of Buryatiya, Art of Mongolia, Art of India, Art of Iran and N.K. and S.N. Roerichs`expositions. There are displayed temporary exhibitions of Russian and foreign artists. In 1977 it acquired the status of the research educational institutions. From the first years of its existence one of the main directions of the Museum's activity was the organization of archaelogical expeditions to the Central Asia and the Caucasus. For study of ancient oriental culture in January 1981, there was created a Department of History of Material Culture and Ancient Art, started to work permanent archaelogical expeditions of the Northern-Caucasus, the Central Asia and Chukotka. At the Museum there are arranged and conducted scientific conferences, seminars and lectures. The Museum experts deliver regular lectures for children which specialize on certain countries. The main building of the Museum of Oriental Art known as “The House of Lunins” is located at the centre of Moscow. It was built in the first quarter of XIX century in the Russian Empire style.