The Committee Representative for the Council of Europe Museum Prize, Mr Roberto Rampi commended the innovative work conducted by the museum saying that:

“The museum’s programmes are designed to expose history and activate memory, with the goal of strengthening the resilience of civil society and its resistance to political repression and violation of human rights today and in the future.”

The Director of the Museum, Mr Roman Romanov, thanked the Council of Europe for the honourable award and stated that the objective of the museum was to create a culture of remembrance on an unprecedented scale. He underlined the museum’s European perspective which

“is expressed in its commitment to European democratic values: political freedom, the freedom of expression, the rule of law, the defence of human rights, and the role of civil society”.

The PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education, and the Media is actively supporting the Council of Europe’s work on history education; it has drafted a report on the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe, which will be completed and adopted during the PACE Standing Committee meeting in November 2021.

Through the Council of Europe Museum Prize, PACE draws attention to the invaluable work carried out by Museums in the areas of remembrance and factual historical analysis, and how this contributes to the protection of the Council of Europe values of Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law.

 The Gulag History Museum Website

 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

 PACE News Article on the 2021 Council of Europe Museum Prize

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