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Venue: Main building of the Historical Museum, hall number 36

In the State Historical Museum, within the framework of the Year of Germany in Russia 2020/2021, the exhibition “The Iron Age. Europe without Borders ”, which will continue the long-term cultural cooperation of Russian and German museums and will provide an opportunity to see the collections of the largest museums in the world.

“This is a large-scale international scientific project, which has become the next step in the field of cultural cooperation between museums in Russia and Germany. Prior to that, joint exhibitions “The Age of the Merovingians” and “The Bronze Age. Europe without borders ”. Exhibition “The Iron Age. Europe without Borders "- dedicated to the 1st millennium BC. and closes the chronological segment between the exhibits of the two previous exhibitions. These exhibition projects are the result of many years of joint work of Russian and German scientists, which began more than twenty years ago and will certainly continue in the future, ”says director Alexei Levykin.

The aim of the exhibition “The Iron Age. Europe without Borders ”- to show the elements of culture, economy, everyday and ceremonial life of Europeans in the era of the Iron Age using archaeological material. The Iron Age in archeology is called the period of human history following the Bronze Age, which is marked by the development of the method of obtaining iron, the beginning of the manufacture of products from it and their widespread distribution. This became one of the most important achievements of mankind, which caused a rapid growth of the productive forces. The use of iron made it possible to improve tools, types of offensive weapons and protective equipment. It was the Iron Age with its technical achievements and spiritual discoveries that laid a solid foundation for modern European culture.

The exposition is organized according to chronological and geographical principles and includes several thematic sections corresponding to archaeological cultures that have developed over a wide area from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east.

The exhibition features more than 1,300 artifacts from the archaeological collections of the State Historical Museum, the State Hermitage, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Prehistory and Ancient History (State Museums of Berlin). The exhibition is unique in the breadth of the material presented on it: the Iron Age in Italy, Hallstatt culture, the antiquities of the Celtic culture, the famous treasures of the Scythian steppe mounds, ancient monuments, famous treasures, antiquities of the Koban culture of the North Caucasus and the cultures of the forest belt of Eastern Europe.

Of particular importance are the monuments, the destinies of which were changed as a result of the tragic events of the Second World War. The exposition includes a large number of exhibits related to the so-called displaced values, exported to the territory of the USSR in 1945 as trophy art. For the first time in history, the exposition will unite not only materials from the Iron Age of Western and Eastern Europe, but archaeological complexes and monuments that were separated almost 80 years ago.