The GULAG History State Museum was founded in 2001; the exhibition was opened in 2004. The Museum’s founder, Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, a well-known historian, writer and public figure, was himself a prisoner of Stalin’s labor camps. The museum collection comprises a documentary archive, letters and memoirs by former GULAG prisoners, their personal belongings and a collection of

This small but extremely moving museum commemorates perhaps the most harrowing period of the city’s history – the 900-day Blockade of Leningrad which lasted from 8 September 1941 to 17 January 1944. For two-and-a-half years, the citizens of Leningrad suffered chronic privations and constant bombardment. Although the precarious Road of Life brought supplies across the ice of

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was established by an act of Congress that mandated the creation of a “permanent living memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.” It is the items that belonged to those victims and survivors—as well as other materials that relate their stories, experiences, and histories—that form the basis of the

National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library We are a museum that celebrates life. Czech life. Slovak life. American life. We are a museum that encourages self-discovery, a museum that asks what it means to be free. Through extraordinary exhibitions and experiences, we tell stories of freedom and identity, family and community, human rights and

State Hermitage Museum Государственный Эрмитаж The collection of the State Hermitage includes over 3 million works of art and world culture artefacts. It contains paintings, graphic works, sculptures, works of applied art, archaeological artefacts and numismatic objects. Founding of the Museum The Hermitage is considered to have been founded in 1764, when Empress Catherine the

The Lithuanian Art Museum Lietuvos dailės muziejus This museum houses Lithuania’s largest art collection and is located in Vilnius. The museum is not only aims to collect, preserve, study and research, promote art valuables that are at its disposal, but also takes an active role in regularly organizing around 70-80 exhibitions annually, cultural events and

The Museum of Genocide Victims Genocido aukų muziejus Музей жертв геноцида The museum is dedicated to collected and exhibiting documents related to the 50-year occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian resistance, and the victims of arrests, deportations, and executions that took place during this period.

National Museum of Lithuania Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus This museum was established in 1952 is a state-sponsored historical museum that is housed in many buildings and has a wide collection of written materials and artifacts.

National History Museum of Latvia Latvijas Nacionālais vēstures muzejs This museum is located in Riga, Latvia. Its mission is to “collect, preserve, research, and popularize spiritual and material culture from Latvia and the world from ancient times to present and includes collections of archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic, historical, and artistic significance to the Latvian nation and

Latvian Museum of Natural History Latvijas Dabas Muzejam – 170 This museum of natural and one of the oldest collections of the natural history in the Baltic States. The objectives set by the Society at that time are linked with the current objectives – the preservation, maintenance and research of the natural collection, active environmental education,