GULAG History State Museum

http://www.RussianMuseum.info/M1202
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GULAG History State Museum

Phone: (495) 621-7310, 621-7346 (экс. бюро)

Address: 127473, Moscow,

Working hours:*

Internet:
www.russianmuseums.info/M1202 - official web page
The State museum of GULAG history - W939, official web site gmig.ru/

E-Mail:

billboard, events and excursions

Description:

The GULAG History State Museum was established in 2001 by A.V. Antonov-Ovseenko, a well-known historian, writer and a public figure, himself experienced the imprisonment in Stalin's labor camps. The museum was launched in 2004.

It's the only state museum in Russia devoted to Stalin's repressions and to the system of GULAG.

The exposition is devoted to the history of the labor camp's system, the paramount integral part of the soviet state machine during 1930-50s years. One of the most important exposition's sections is the reconstruction of some details of camp's environment

Museum's services:
museum shop, lecture hall, museum's caffe, equipped for people with disabilities

Next to the museum there are:
restaurant(s) or caffes

for museum professionals

Administrative phone:
(495) 621-7310

Foundation and opening day:
founded: 31.07.2001
opened: 18.05.2004

Organisation status:
State Russia

Organization form:
non-for-profit

Organisation type:
culture for society, scientific

Classification:
Historical

Squares:
permament show rooms 862,2м²
museum's store 152,7м²

Employee number:
46 (curators: 20)

Average visitors per year:
26700

Specific departments:
archive, science library

Collections volume:
2110, rare collection's items: 1776

Web sites and CD-disks:
above