MOSCOW, 16 Mar. The international media group «Russia Today» and the Museum of Victory on Poklonnaya Hill have signed a cooperation agreement. The corresponding document was signed on Thursday by the general director of the news organization, Dmitry Kiselev, and the director of the museum, Alexander Shkolnik.
The agreement provides for the exchange of information, experience, holding joint events, including seminars and conferences. The cooperation of the parties is aimed, in particular, at strengthening the patriotic education of society, promoting the preservation of the socio-historical and cultural heritage.
“With this agreement, we legally consolidate the partnership relations that have been established for quite a long time,” Dmitry Kiselev noted. “So, in 2020, our media group participated in the International Scientific and Practical Forum “Lessons of Nuremberg”, which was held here, in the Victory Museum last year the team presented their historical «Nuremberg. VR Dict of the Peoples», and now it hosts an exhibition of works by our venerable photojournalist Valery Melnikov «Return Home», dedicated to the people of Donbass. The prospects for cooperation between the leading Russian information holding and one of the world's largest museum and memorial complexes are almost limitless.“Today, the Victory Museum is not only the main military history museum of the country, but also a leading cultural and educational center. Every year we create dozens of topical exhibitions, hold hundreds of patriotic events and actions, thematic excursions and educational programs, conferences and scientific meetings. And it has always been fundamentally important for us not only to open exhibitions and hold events, but also to promote these events in the information space in order to help our museum products expand their audience as much as possible. this task. I am sure that thanks to cooperation with such an influential news portal, millions of people in Russia will learn about the leading projects of the Victory Museum,» Alexander Shkolnik emphasized.
The Victory Museum is Russia's largest museum complex dedicated to the history of the Great Patriotic War and World War II . Here you can see authentic rarities telling about the events and heroes of those years: weapons, ammunition, photographs, documents, awards and much more. The exhibition area of the Victory Museum is over 16,000 square meters, and the funds contain about 400,000 museum items. In the main building of the museum there are expositions «Feat of the People», «Battle for Moscow. First Victory», «Feat of the Army» with a diorama complex, the Hall of Historical Truth, the multimedia hall «Faces of Victory». The Victory Museum has four branches: Krasnogorsk, Rzhevsky, «Museum of G.K. Zhukov» and the Museum «G.O.R.A.».