Museum of the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin

About museum

The museum opened on November 25, 2015. Its creation took four years and involved the bureau Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the leadership of the Yeltsin Center, and invited experts. The museum combines traditional and innovative museological approaches. Distinctive features: immersion, interactivity, and dramaturgy. The project, new for Russia, initiated the systematic study, preservation, and popularization of the historical heritage of Russian presidents. The museum presents in an accessible way the life of the first President of Russia and the most important stages of his political biography. The museum's central exhibition, “Seven Days That Changed Russia,” is an objective and unbiased study of the 1990s. It is based on authentic documents and materials that tell of the difficult period of the birth of a new country and the formation of modern Russian democracy. The exhibition contains about 1,100 documents and items from the archival fund, the museum collection, and the library of the B. N. Yeltsin Presidential Center. The storage facilities hold about 35,000 inventory items.