The former staff of Perm-36 Memorial Center started designing new exhibitions in 2015, shortly after Perm-36 Memorial Museum of History of Political Repression they established and developed for twenty years was taken over and liquidated. The twelve booths of the ‘Perm political camps’ exhibition spotlight why Perm political camps were set up, their history, prisoners, routine, labor and everyday life therein, prisoners’ struggle for their rights.
Further on, new exhibitions were designed and set up annually. These dealt with the leading topic of each year’s ‘Perm Days of Memory’ Civil Seasons. The exhibitions provided a core of the Seasons’ programs, major events and actions.
Previously, the Memorial Center had a permanent mobile exhibition service; after the museum was liquidated, no funds or staff were available to exhibit new exhibitions at various platforms. Therefore, the staff and volunteers of the Memorial Center’s standing partner, Memorial’s Perm Branch display these in their programs and exhibitions over Perm Region.
Site “GULAG. History of one camp” is devoted to the history of Perm-36, the last political zone of the Soviet Union, and the Public Museum, which was created on the remains of this zone by a group of enthusiasts.
Nowadays the museum with all its collections, archives, expositions and exhibitions is seized by the officials from the Ministry of Culture of Perm region.
This project is an attempt to create a universal model of a museum, which exists only in the virtual space and enables almost all kinds of activities of a real museum: scientific, educational, expo-exhibition and excursion.
The initiator of the creation of this resource was the International Coalition of Museums of Conscience, created in 1999, one of the founders of which was the Public Museum “Perm 36”.
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