Slavic Writing Center "Slovo" (Pavilion No. 58)

About museum

In spring 2019, after restoration, the Slavic Writing Center "Slovo" was opened in Pavilion No. 58 at VDNKh. This exhibition and educational space is dedicated to the history and contemporary life of the Cyrillic script. Here you can see a monastery cell and the first Russian printing house, sit at the desks of a zemstvo school, listen to psalms and decipher graffiti in an ancient church, and also get acquainted with the "text messages" of medieval Novgorodians. You can trace the development of Slavic writing from the 9th century to the present day, as well as its influence on Russia's religious, secular and everyday culture. Here you can see the earliest alphabets in Glagolitic and Cyrillic, read Russia's oldest literary works, leaf through 20th-century diaries, and become acquainted with the notes of a Petrograd student and children's recollections of the events of August 1991.