Virtual tour of the legendary cruiser Aurora available on the Presidential Library’s portal

Today to visit the nooks of the legendary cruiser Aurora and see exhibits inaccessible to most tourists has become possible thanks to the new virtual tour, which was created by the Presidential Library in conjunction with the Central Naval Museum.

From any corner of the world one can now not only take a walk on a warship, but also look at it from a bird's eye view, consider in detail the location of the cruiser and the scale on the city map, admire the panoramas of St. Petersburg from an unusual angle.

Interactive tourists can visit the upper deck, including the conning tower, engine room and boiler room, the ship’s infirmary, the church and other Aurora premises. The exhibits of the museum ship spotlight its history, service and life of sailors, participation in long-range military campaigns, revolutionary events of 1917, and the Great Patriotic War. A separate exposition is dedicated to the history of medicine in the Navy.

It is worth noting that employees of the Central Naval Museum branch on the Aurora cruiser selected the most interesting, key objects of the exposition for a more detailed presentation. Each of them is accompanied by comprehensive information about the exhibit itself, its history, context, etc.

Among the interactive projects of the Presidential Library are also tours around the legendary cruiser Aurora, the State Memorial Museum of Defence and Siege of Leningrad, Kobona: The Road of Life Museum, And the Muses were not silent... Museum, as well as Yulian Semyonov House-Museum.

12 temporary expositions of the Presidential Library moved from real space to digital. Today, the institution’s portal provides a remote 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 Rifle: the Path of the Great Master. Marking the centenary of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Monuments of book culture: from Print to Digital , 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: Chekist in Life, Cinema and Literature and many others.

Visitors to the Presidential Library’s portal from anywhere in the world can walk through the historical building of the Synod, which today houses is a modern multifunctional cultural and educational center, visit the Constitution Hall, learn about the new materials of the interactive exposition covering revolutionary events in Petrograd.