Abstract: The research subject covers the administrative grounds of organizing the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, its government and non-government components. The author considers the legal base regulating the grounds of organizing the Museum Fund. Special attention is paid to the administrative procedure of inclusion of cultural values in the structure of the Museum Fund. The author studies the procedure of keeping the State Catalogue of the Museum Fund. The author analyzes the methods of supervision over preserving and effective managing of cultural values belonging to the Museum Fund. The author applies general scientific methods: the systems method, the dialectical and logical methods, and special legal methods: complex, comparative-legal, analysis, synthesis. For analyzing the legislative base the author applies the method of lexical and grammatical analysis. The novelty of the research lies in the complex consideration of administrative grounds of organization of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, and proposes the measures of the current legislation improvement. The author proposes the forms of government control and the procedure of interaction of the state and private individuals possessing museum objects and collections. 

Keywords: Culture, Museum, Museum objects, The museum collection, The museum fund, State Catalogue, The cultural value, Monitoring, Private collection, Ministry of Culture