The department of Paleoanthropology unites the collections of skulls and skeletons from Upper Paleolithic to 17-18th centuries across the territory of our country. <...> The collections of Archaeological department embrace the whole history of mankind from prehistoric past to the Slavic antiquities, including ivory fi gurines from the Avdeevo site. <...> The department of Ethnography houses the collections from Africa, the Americas, the Pacifi c and Siberia that were gathered in the second half of the 19th century and demonstrates native cultures at the period of the fi rst contacts with Europeans. <...> The department of Illustrations contains photos, glass negatives, drawings, death masks and busts of the peoples from different parts of the Earth, including pencil drawings of the famous Russian scientist N.N. Miklukha-Maklay, made during his voyage to the New Guinea. <...> The collections of the Museum of Anthropology are deeply involved in the research process, serving as a base for preparing scientifi c articles, term papers, diplomas and theses. <...> ANTHROPOLOGICAL METHODS AS A WAY TO ANALYZE THE ART IMAGE OF ANCIENT GREEK SCULPTURE Belikov Anton1 , Goncharova Natalia2 Department of Anthropology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Ancient sculpture is one of the best examined objects in the world culture so it can be used for the veri1Department of Aesthetics, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 2 fi cation of some hypothesis in anthropology and art history. <...> Applying of anthropological methods to analyze art objects creates a new methodology and reveals tendencies in the evolution of the image. <...> The essential distinctions between the archaic and classical images in spite of the paradigm of the anthropological type stability lead to the search of the reasons for such considerable differences. <...> The purpose of this study is to detach the anthropological content from its ideal content determined mostly by the canon of proportions. <...> The author’s photos of ancient sculptures and the archaic sculptures photographs by Gisela Richter are used. <...> Such characteristics as height and width proportions of faces, size and disposition of the eyes, lips and nose were subjected to statistical analysis. <...> The anthropological methods denote the typological features of different periods. <...> The differences between the archaic and classic sculptures appear in the inclination of the eyes, in face proportions, and lips thickness. <...> The variability of the facial proportions in archaic period is higher due to the lack of the canon. <...> The differences between the facial <...>