During the twenty-year existence of Perm-36 Memorial Museum of History of Political Repression, more than twenty exhibits, fixed and mobile exhibitions were designed and set up. Back in 1995, when the museum was opened, the first exhibition, the ‘Dissident Movement in USSR and Perm Political Camps’, and then the ‘Maximum-Security Prisoners’ exhibit was displayed in the maximum-security hut.
Very much was contributed to creation of exhibits and exhibitions, development of in-house exhibitional stylistics and program of the museum by Yuri Reshetnikov, the merited designer of Russia, the Chief Artist of the RF State Literature Museum. He and the Memorial Center’s designer developed, designed and set up the exhibitions which had much success not only in the museum but also in other cities of the country, including Moscow, in the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia (the former Museum of the Revolution), and abroad.
Virtually all exhibitions which were set up by Perm-36 Memorial Museum of History of Political Repression were stored in the museum and taken over by the authorities of Perm Territory in 2014. The current fate of these exhibitions is unknown.
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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