Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War
The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War ( Russian Центральный музей Великой Отечественной войны ) is the museum about the Second World War for all of Russia and is next to the Central Museum of the Russian Armed Forces and the Red Army , which emphasizes the role of the army, above all, the memory of events and the people in the entire war in Moscow .
One branch is with the Memorial Museum of German Antifascists in Krasnogorsk ⊙ .
history
After the Second World War , the holdings of the Army Museum increased considerably and in 1951 it was renamed the Central Museum of the Soviet Army . It contained a permanent exhibition on the Great Patriotic War .
Construction began on March 3, 1986, and opened on May 9, 1995. The architect was Anatoli Trofimowitsch Polyanski .
location
The museum is located in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill. There is also an exhibition of vehicles from the war and the memorial synagogue to the Shoah , the Church of St. George, the memorial mosque, a triumphal arch and an obelisk.
See also
literature
- Alla Andrejeuma Prusakowa: The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow . In: Hans-Martin Hinz (ed.): The war and its museums . For the German Historical Museum , Campus, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-593-35838-7 , pp. 73 ff.
Web links
- Homepage (in Russian)
- Photographs (especially of the dioramas; text in English, links)
- Museum of the Great Patriotic War at Google Cultural Institute
Coordinates: 55 ° 43 ′ 50.8 " N , 37 ° 30 ′ 16.5" E