State Museum of GULAG's History, Moscow

A really amazing place! You can spend 5 hours here reading through everything. I like how they are honest about history and they do not seem to hide facts that you may not find in other places. I also really like the personal stories, they're very well explained and it makes you feel history even more. It is more than worth it and it's not expensive either

Excellent museum. Well curated and interesting for all ages. Plenty to think about and good for Russian and English speakers alike. Found it easily enough by following the map on the museum website. I went with my 14 year old son who seemed to get something out of what could have been a very difficult historical subject. His reward was a bottle of Sprite in the cafe downstairs, which like the rest of the museum was well appointed and pleasantly not too busy.

Probably the best museum I visited in Russia. The exhibition were interesting and intriguing, and the recordings were genuinely touching. Most of the information was translated to English (a great improvement in comparison to other museums I visited), and the interactive part was showing well the progress during the years. I was missing a bit more information about the people operating the system.

Must see this exquisite and incredibly well thought out museum and memory to the atrocities of the Gulags and forced labour camps. There is an English translation on everything, even the audio stations. If you're visiting for more than a few hours, make sure this makes your list. The dark and windowless theme throughout perfectly compliments. This is something which everyone from every country should experience and learn from. There are pictures here that will haunt you and while there is nothing garish or directly confronting, the words and sheer senseless loss of life is overpowering beyond measure. Throughout there are images of seemingly benign and picturesque landscapes which withhold the dark horrors conducted and buried there.

Very interesting and well done museum. It makes you think, want to remember about the things that happened. Good for foreign tourists (each exhibit has got a translated information in English about itself).