The Best War Museums from Around the World
| June 11, 2018
The Museum of the Great Patriotic War – Moscow, Russian
This Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow is housed in a massive, spectacular purpose-built building. Behind it sits a gigantic obelisk, which towers over it by hundreds of feet. Its purpose is to memorialize the Great Patriotic War, which is the Russian term for WWII.
The main rooms of the museum focus on the recipients of some of Russia’s highest military honors, as well as ordinary soldiers and civilians who fought and died in the war. The most moving part of this museum is the shadowy Hall of Remembrance and Sorrow, which pays tribute to the casualties of the war.
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