PERM, Russia -- The Perm-36 gulag museum in the forests of Western Siberia is under new management -- and it's easy to feel the difference when touring the new team's recently opened first exhibition.

Now it is the museum's turn. Perm-36, watch tower. Source: Geo Photo This year, the former leadership of the museum, Viktor Shmirov and Tatyana Kursina, were fired.

The news that Perm-36, which was created on the site of a Soviet forced labour camp, or gulag, is to shut its doors, the Moscow Times reports.

Now it is the museum's turn. Perm-36, watch tower. Source: Geo Photo This year, the former leadership of the museum, Viktor Shmirov and Tatyana Kursina, were fired.

Perm 36 The Gulag was the government agency in the USSR that administered forced labor camps during the Stalin era. The museum of political repressions was created in 1992 in Perm Region on the ...

Now, after five years of reconstruction, the camp once known as Perm 36 was finally opened to the Russian public. It is the first gulag to be restored as a memorial museum.

Perm-36, Russia’s only Gulag memorial, has announced its first exhibit since the state seized it from a local nonprofit. What was a museum of Soviet political repression will now showcase the ...

Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the ...

A Russian court has upheld a previous ruling to fine Perm 36, a NGO that previously managed the only Gulag museum in Russia, for failing to register as a "foreign agent" under a strict Russian law.

Perm-36 is the only Russian museum built on the site of a former gulag camp, The Moscow Times reports. The museum commemorates victims of Soviet labor camps.