HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM

‘The Repressed Poles’ was a booth exhibition that was set up in 2002 as proposed by the Polish Cultural Center, and was dedicated to the Poles who were repressed in the Urals: shot or imprisoned in GULAG camps during the Great Terror 1937–1938, or deported to forced settlements of Molotov Region, or exiled, and the conditions they labored and lived in.
The exhibition included a location sketch map of deported Poles’ forced settlements and personal data of some of them.
Design layout of the exhibition
Download the design layout of the exhibition (PDF, CDR)

‘The people and the Authorities in Russia in X cent. through XX cent.’ mobile exhibition was constructed in 2000. It follows the strip-cartoon stylistics, and tells about evolutions of Russian governmental and political system ‘from Gostomysl’ to Perestroika. It included an interactive game program and guidelines. It was especially popular with students, and mostly displayed in the region’s high schools where its materials were used in lessons and classes of humanitarian teachers’ methodological associations. A handout covering complete commented contents of the exhibition was published by the museum.
Fragments of the exhibition
‘The people and the Authorities in Russia in X cent. through XX cent.’ handout
The exhibition guidelines

The ‘Maximum-Security Prisoners’ exhibit was constructed in the maximum-security hut of Perm-36 camp in 1998. This exhibition comprised prisoners’ of conscience personal showcases which accommodated the curricula vitae, the photos, copies of the prisoners’ records, copies of the documents, personal effects, copies of publications, et al., to represent not only the period of arrest and imprisonment but also a general outline of every prisoner’s life.
This division mostly accommodated dissidents which had already been imprisoned on charges of especially dangerous political crimes: anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, and reconvicted on the same charges, and therefore adjudged to be especially dangerous recidivists.
The division also accommodated ‘supermax’ prisoners of state who received capital sentences on charges of high treason but were exonerated. Most of them were convicted of police service during World War II. The exhibit only represented them by name, their photos in the common showcase having been replaced with black blanks.

The exhibition is dedicated to Stalin-era political repression in Perm Territory. It was actively displayed by the museum’s mobile exhibition service in all cities and in most villages of Perm Territory. The exhibition included interactive booths with materials on the repression history which were collected in the territories where it was displayed.
Photo of the exhibition