Exhibitions: The exposition, dedicated to the typewriter as a tool for the creation of literary text in the XX century, in Moscow

The Polytechnic Museum and the National Museum of Literature presented at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art the exhibition "200 beats per minute" dedicated to the typewriter as the principal technical instrument of a literary text in the XX century.

The exhibition project, which presents exhibits from more than 20 public and private collections, including the A. M. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve, talks about how to develop the fate of typing in the country against the backdrop of the artistic and political events of the XX century.

Among other exhibits, visitors will see the machine «Remington» (1920), which Mikhail Sholokhov acquired in the fee received for the collection of early works "Don stories". This machine printed chapters of the novel "And Quiet Flows the Don". On display are also manuscripts of the writer and his photograph (1936, photographer V. Temin).

The museum space is divided into several thematic areas in which the machine acts as a trendy design object, a tool for creating works of literature, art object and typing - as a simple media, the object of worship, persecution and artistic tool.