History of Russia: A new exhibition project of the Novgorod Museum Reserve “Time Gallery” is open

A new exhibition project of the Novgorod Museum Reserve "Time Gallery" opens August 2, 2012 in the Pryaslo (wall) of the Kremlin between the towers the Spasskaya and the Knyazhaya Towers. The project "Time Gallery" combines two exhibitions telling of the history of Novgorod in the XX century.

The Pryaslo - is an unusual premise, formed after the restoration of the site of the Kremlin wall which was converted into exhibition halls.

The first floor is represented by the original collection of the Soviet and Western amateur film equipment, including real rarities from the private collection of Valeriy Rubtsov ("Museum of the Home Movie"), which made the exhibition "Walls can see, walls remember". The walls of this hall became a screen for flashbacks of films of different years. Here you can in detail examine the machinery by which the annals of the century were carried out.

The second floor takes the exhibition "Postwar Novgorod". It is thematically linked to the most important stage of the history of the city - its revival after the catastrophic destruction in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1944s). The exhibition is first exhibited rare photographs, which are an important source on this subject: panoramas of the postwar Novgorod, types of monuments, as well as portraits of architects and restorers involved in rebuilding of the city. The photos were made ​​in 1947 by Ignatius Vikentievich Trofimov (1906-2002s) – a well-known architect and restorer.