Description of the attraction
The Victory Museum (formerly the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945) is the main part of the Victory Memorial Complex on Poklonnaya Hill. The museum was founded in 1995.
The museum complex consists of six dioramas: "The Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow in December 1941", "The Battle of Stalingrad. Combining fronts”,“Forcing the Dnieper”,“Kursk Bulge”,“Blockade of Leningrad”,“Storming Berlin”. The museum exposition also includes: an art gallery, a hall of commanders, a hall of memory and sorrow, a hall of fame and a historical exposition "The Way to Victory". There is a special meeting room for veterans.
To perpetuate the memory of the defenders of the Motherland who did not return from the Great Patriotic War, an electronic Memory Book was created. It contains the names of the dead, missing and died from diseases and injuries of soldiers. The museum is carrying out painstaking work to establish the fate of the missing and dead.
The employees of the museum complex carry out a variety of exhibition projects. They are both stationary and mobile. Projects are carried out both in Russia and abroad.
There is an exhibition of weapons on the territory of the museum. It contains a variety of samples of military equipment and engineering structures. There are unique exhibits in the exposition. These include rare aircraft, the best tank of the war, the T-34, as well as rare, famous and unknown engines for military equipment.
The Victory Museum and Victory Park constitute a single architectural ensemble. The main element of the ensemble is a monument, 142.5 m high. It is a bayonet with the figure of Nike, the goddess of victory, decorated with bronze bas-reliefs. The ensemble includes: the Church of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victorious, the Memorial Synagogue, the Memorial Mosque and the Memorial Chapel.
