Introduction.
I have known the Motors of War museum for many years. Ever since the time when it was huddled in the basement of a two-story building near Poklonnaya Hill. It is still displayed there on old maps online and on stands in the park, even on the door of the museum ticket office.
It was a fairly small room, densely packed with equipment.
Because the building was outside the area, a separate ticket was purchased and sometimes I was given an escort who walked with me and opened the premises for me alone!
But there you could do it like this.
Now this large museum is located in the center of Moscow, an hour’s walk from the Kremlin.
I’ve been to the museum three times already, and each time I find something new.
The exhibits are housed in three tall and enormous adjoining hangars.
and in the spaces between them.
There is a thematic distribution, but it is not very strict. For example, despite the motorized name, there are many exhibits without motors. For now, just for the sake of example and due to the fact that these are not motors at all: uniforms of famous military leaders of the Great Patriotic War.
Zhukov and Stalin
Voroshilov and Rokossovsky
The museum is alive, it breathes. Exhibits appear, change, move. This is how, for example, the front end of the first hangar looked two years ago,
and this is how it looks now.
Sometimes a change in exposure can be guessed at by indirect signs.
For now, guess who was dragged into the American sector, and then I’ll show him to you. Check your guess.
I don’t visit this museum often, but I remember it every week. And they themselves are to blame for this.
Every Saturday they organize interesting and educational events. They announce them and then report on their VK channel. For example, this Saturday (August 23) there was a dynamic demonstration of the German heavy command vehicle Steyr 2000A Kfz.69ер.
I’m somehow unlucky enough to get to them.
To be continued…
