Admission ticket to the State Museum of GULAG’s History, Moscow. The permanent exhibition named GULAG in Human Fates and History of the Country is aimed to depict the history of GULAG as a single process with the inherent logic. In particular, the exhibition narrates a story starting from the foundation of a huge industrial corporation of forced labor economics to the liquidation of the system after Stalin’s death. The exhibition approaches the GULAG history through the human dimension. The interactive multimedia format enables a visitor to face GULAG survivors, to hear prisoners’ voices.
The permanent exhibition named GULAG in Human Fates and History of the Country is aimed to depict the history of GULAG as a single process with the inherent logic. In particular, the exhibition narrates a story starting from the foundation of a huge industrial corporation of forced labor economics to the liquidation of the system after Stalin’s death. The exhibition approaches the GULAG history through the human dimension. The interactive multimedia format enables a visitor to face GULAG survivors, to hear prisoners’ voices.
Visit: State Museum of GULAG’s History, 1st Samotechny Lane, 9/1 Metro Dostoevskaya, Moscow 127473 Russia
In the early days of the USSR, the network of camps, consisted of the prisoners sentenced not only for domestic and criminal crimes but also for political reasons, was established. Having lost freedom, rights, and normal living conditions, exhausted prisoners had to develop hard-to-get regions, fell timber, mine coal and gold, build railways, power stations and even whole cities.
Initially the Russian acronym for «Main Administration of Camps», the term GULAG became an ominous symbol of lawlessness, life on the verge of death, hard labor and human injustice.
The GULAG History Museum represents an approach of memorial museums, dealing with the history of the corrective forced labor camp system that served as an instrument of state repressive policy in the Soviet Union.
The Museum was established in 2001 by Anton V. Antonov-Ovseenko, prominent historian, publicist and public figure, who endured forced labor camps as a son of an “enemy of the people”. The Museum’s major mission is to redefine and to preserve the historical past for future generations. Notably, the Museum provides a public space for presentation, exploration and discussion of the most relevant aspects of forced labor and political unfreedom in the USSR.
The collections of the GULAG History Museum include an archive of documents, letters, memoirs of former prisoners of the GULAG, personal items and other objects related to the history of imprisonment, works of art created by the artists endured through the GULAG, and contemporary creators, offering their own view on this topic. The Museum collection is regularly renewed by new exhibits, photographs, paintings, documents, camp life artifacts.
The Museum exposition deals with the history of the corrective forced labor camp system that served as an instrument of state repressive policy in the Soviet Union between the 1930s and the 1950s. The permanent exhibition named GULAG in Human Fates and History of the Country is aimed to depict the history of GULAG as a single process with the inherent logic. In particular, the exhibition narrates a story starting from the foundation of a huge industrial corporation of forced labor economics to the liquidation of the system after Stalin’s death. The exhibition approaches the GULAG history through the human dimension. The interactive multimedia format enables a visitor to face GULAG survivors, to hear prisoners’ voices.
Categoría: Pases y entradas para visitas turísticas.
Inicio en: Moscow, Russia.
Duración: 2 to 4 hours.
Precio: 10,36 euros.
