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| The Garden Square, near the Sakharov Centre |
It has several
temporary exhibitions on different human rights topics, trainings and
conferences for activists and human rights NGOs, and serves as a research Centre
too.
The Museum is
open for free for visitors, and it’s possible to have a guided tour.
There’s a
permanent exhibition, mostly on the topic of political repression under USSR; in
particular you can have more information on the camps for prisoners, what was
like to live there, and who were the people who were imprisoned, there are also
several objects belonging to the prisoners; a lot of them they weren’t
even dissidents. It’s possible to read some reports on the prisoners, with the
motivations authorities would give for their imprisonment, and even the execution lists.
On some
panels it’s possible to read more about human rights activists during USSR
period, and their treatment by the authorities.
After the
collapsing of USSR a lot of memorials to commemorate the victims of political
repression started to appear in Russia and other countries previously under the
communist regime, and in the Museum is present a good collection of photos of
these memorials.
The last
panels concern the life and work of Andrei Sakharov, human right activist and
Nobel Peace Prize.
Name: Sakharov Centre
Adress: земляной вал, 57, bld 6
Nearest subwaystation: "Чкаловская" or “Курская”
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