On Memorial Day for the Victims of Political Oppression, the former Gulag Museum was closed for "sanitary" day. The museum center and memorial garden in the building of the Museum of the History of the Former Gulag in Moscow were closed to visitors exactly on the day of remembrance for the victims of political oppression. A notice of the supposedly planned "sanitary" day appeared on the website of the current memorial museum. According to the announcement, the institution promises to resume work the next day - October 31. In recent years, on October 30, Muscovites came to the memorial garden and placed flowers in the camp tower in memory of the victims of political repression. According to the visitors, in the past only the museum was closed on sanitary days, but the garden remained accessible. Flowers were brought even in 2024, when the Gulag Museum was already closed. The Gulag History Museum stopped working in November 2024 after an anonymous complaint. The official reason was allegedly "fire safety violations". In the summer of 2026, a memorial museum dedicated to the "genocide of the Soviet people" will be opened in its place. The subject of Stalin's repressions has disappeared from the new exhibition.

On Memorial Day for the Victims of Political Oppression, the former Gulag Museum was closed for "sanitary" day. The museum center and memorial garden in the building of the Museum of the History of the Former Gulag in Moscow were closed to visitors exactly on the day of remembrance for the victims of political oppression. A notice of the supposedly planned "sanitary" day appeared on the website of the current memorial museum. According to the announcement, the institution promises to resume work the next day - October 31. In recent years, on October 30, Muscovites came to the memorial garden and placed flowers in the camp tower in memory of the victims of political repression. According to the visitors, in the past only the museum was closed on sanitary days, but the garden remained accessible. Flowers were brought even in 2024, when the Gulag Museum was already closed. The Gulag History Museum stopped working in November 2024 after an anonymous complaint. The official reason was allegedly "fire safety violations". In the summer of 2026, a memorial museum dedicated to the "genocide of the Soviet people" will be opened in its place. The subject of Stalin's repressions has disappeared from the new exhibition.