Marking the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory. The Presidential Library’s portal provides a remote access to the Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad

Walking through the exhibition halls of the State Memorial Museum of the Defence and the Siege of Leningrad without leaving the street was made possible thanks to a virtual tour provided on the Presidential Library’s portal.

The main feature of this interactive tour is that the visitor learns about the exposition, which today exists only in the digital space - it was dismantled in May 2018, and after the overhaul completed, the museum was recreated in an updated form.

The virtual tour provides an opportunity to see museum halls from anywhere in the world where photographs, maps, genuine wartime items are stored, most of which are accompanied by exhaustive and carefully selected museum staff information about the exhibit, its history, context and etc.

Virtual tours are an actively developing area of the Presidential Library’s activity, thanks to which the electronic storage fund, along with paper, photo, audio and video materials, is added with exhibits and items from museum collections. Among the interactive projects of the Presidential Library there are also excursions to the legendary cruiser Aurora, the museum Kobona: The Road of Life, the museum “And the muses were not silent...”, the Yulian Semenov House-Museum.

12 temporary expositions of the Presidential Library, which at different times run in the building on the Senate Square, 3, have also moved from real space into digital space. Today, one can remotely visit such exhibitions as Materialized Memory: Defence and Siege of Leningrad in museum expositions. Marking the 75th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege, Weapons Designer and Assault Rile: the path of the great master. Marking the 100th anniversary of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Monuments of book culture: from print to digital, Journey from Petrograd to Moscow. 1918: marking the 100th anniversary of the Soviet government’s relocation and the capital to Moscow, An Artist against the Fuhrer: Fascism in the Caricatures of Boris Yefimov. Marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, The Saving Sword of the Revolution: the Chekist in life, cinema and literature and others.

Visitors to the Presidential Library’s portal, being anywhere in the world, can have a virtual tour around the historic building of the Synod, which today houses a modern multifunctional cultural and educational center, visit the Constitution Hall, learn about new materials of the constantly replenishing interactive exposition, spotlighting revolutionary events in Petrograd.