Victory Museum

About museum

The Victory Museum is Russia’s main military-historical museum covering the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War, one of the largest military-historical museums in the world, and an all-Russian research and cultural-educational center.

Today the museum is one of the leading institutions countering attempts to falsify history, as well as a center for the patriotic education of new generations.
The exhibition area of the Victory Museum totals 16,700 thousand square meters. In total, the museum holds more than 500,000 museum items.

Permanent exhibitions in the main building include “The People’s Feat” and “The Battle for Moscow. The First Victory!”

For the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Victory Museum opened a new historical-multimedia exhibition “Path to Victory,” which brought together a diorama complex created by the well-known masters of the M. B. Grekov Studio of Military Artists. Each diorama is dedicated to a key battle of the war:
• “Counteroffensive near Moscow”
• “The Battle of Stalingrad. Junction of Fronts”
• “The Siege of Leningrad”
• “The Battle of Kursk”
• “Crossing the Dnieper”
• “The Assault on Berlin”

Unique paintings complement the detailed sets and multimedia technologies that “bring” history to life and allow visitors to feel part of the great feat, experiencing the triumph and drama of historical events together with the heroes depicted on the canvases.

A special part of the new exhibition is the interactive complex “Relics of Victory,” organized with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives. More than 160 exhibits in this section highlight the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their personal stories. The incorporation of multimedia technologies in the exhibition—such as projections, mapping, AR, directional sound, and elements of sensory spaces—allows visitors to fully immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the events described by the museum exhibits.

Also on the open-air grounds, on an area of more than 10 hectares, is a branch of the Victory Museum: the G.O.R.A. Museum (Main Weapon Relics of the Army). The museum’s themed locations display more than 400 rare exhibits, interactive exhibitions and equipment models, special effects, and sculptural figures of participants in the wartime events.

In addition to permanent exhibitions, the Victory Museum currently hosts thematic exhibitions timed to significant historical dates and important pages of the war’s history.

For children and adults the Victory Museum offers interactive programs, quests, overview and themed tours, organization and hosting of ceremonial events and children’s birthday parties. The main building also houses the “Poklonka” cinema with four screening halls.