Project Description
Description
Essentials about the Victory Museum in brief
If you are interested in the history of the Second World War from the Russian/Soviet point of view, you should definitely visit the Victory Museum. Along with the Central Museum of the Russian Armed Forces, it is the most important military museum in Moscow.
The significance of the Victory Museum
The Victory Museum is the central structure of Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill. With about 13 million fallen soldiers and about 14 million dead civilians, the then Soviet Union suffered by far the highest military and civilian casualties of all the warring parties involved in the Second World War. Accordingly, the commemoration and also the heroization of their compatriots, who made the greatest sacrifices for their homeland, is still an integral part of Russian national identity today.
The exhibition of the Victory Museum
Opened in 1995, the museum commemorates the history of the Great Patriotic War (as World War II is called in Russia) in 1941-1945 in a variety of ways through weapons, uniforms, photographs, letters, sculptures and posters. In the center of the museum is the Hall of Glory, made of white marble, which commemorates the 11,800 people who were awarded the title of “Heroes of the Soviet Union.” Below is the Hall of Memory and Mourning, where the dead Soviet citizens are commemorated. In the sparsely lit hall, glass beads hang from the ceiling, symbolizing the tears shed for the dead.
Phone
+7 499 449 80 10
Opening hours
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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closed | 10 am – 10 pm | 10 am – 10 pm | 10 am – 10 pm | 10 am – 10 pm | 10 am – 10 pm | 10 am – 10 pm |
Admission fees
Regular price for the main building: R450
Additional admissions fees will be charged for further exhibition areas.
Address
Getting there
By public transport:
Metro lines 3 and 8: Stop Park Pobedy
By car:
There are no parking facilities in the immediate vicinity of the museum.
Photos: Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21PFS ’09 red’ (24698698468), CC BY-SA 2.0 / Mike1979 Russia, T-34 Model 1941 in the Great Patriotic War Museum 5-jun-2014, CC BY-SA 3.0 / Benjamín Núñez González, Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, Russia, 2016 32, CC BY-SA 4.0
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