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

Today it has become possible to visit the secluded corners of the legendary cruiser "Aurora" and see exhibits inaccessible to most tourists thanks to a virtual tour, which has been provided 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 around the warship, but also have a bird's eye view of it, examine in detail the location of the cruiser and its scale on the city map, and admire the panoramas of St. Petersburg from an unusual angle.

The upper deck, including the conning tower, the engine room and boiler room, the ship's infirmary, the church and other premises of the Aurora, are open to interactive tourists. The exhibits of the ship-museum tell about 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 devoted to the history of medicine in the navy.

It should be noted that the staff of the branch of the Central Naval Museum on the cruiser Aurora 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.

The temporary expositions of the Presidential Library, which at different times were available in the building on Senate Square, 3, have also moved from real space to digital. Today the institution’s portal features virtual tours through such exhibition as “Journey from Petrograd to Moscow. 1918: marking the 100th anniversary of the relocation of the Soviet government and the capital to Moscow”, “The Saving Sword of the Revolution”: the Chekist in Life, Cinema and Literature” and others. Visitors to the portal of the Presidential Library from anywhere in the world can learn about the new materials of constantly replenished interactive exposition, highlighting the revolutionary events in Petrograd.

Virtual projects are an actively developing area of activity of the Presidential Library, thanks to which the electronic repository, along with paper, photo, audio and video materials, has been added with exhibits from exhibitions, items from museum collections.

More than fifteen temporary exhibitions are available for remote visits, which at different times were available in the Presidential Library. They are provided on the library’s portal at: https://www.prlib.ru/about_exhibition.