GULAG HISTORY MUSEUM
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This museum is a chilling metaphor for contemporary Russia: it is nestled between the luxury boutiques of the Petrovka, where new Russians often visit, often descendants of party cadres. It is in this image that the Gulag has retained its ambivalent place in the collective memory of Russians: while the Gulag was an official and visible Soviet institution responsible for organizing and administering labor camps and more than 18 million Soviet citizens were deported to it, the extent of the horror of the labor camps was long hidden and denied, even in private conversations until the mid-1980s. After the fall of the USSR, the gulags again disappeared from conversation, seen as the acts of a vanished society, and the painful memory of the victims was never fully rehabilitated. It is therefore the very special task of honouring the men in charge of the museum, which reopened in 2015: the exhibition is organised as a chain of several exhibition spaces linked by and for the memory of the victims and the remembrance of this era of political repression. The main space is dedicated to the gathering of the memory of the victims: letters, photos, documents, articles, objects... A huge projected map of the USSR allows to visualize a precise cartography showing the extent of the Gulag USSR with its camps, colonies, places of deportation and isolation.
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