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The Gulag Museum of Perm, Russia and the National Park Service (NPS) have formed a unique partnership to produce a traveling exhibit, "GULAG: Soviet Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom." This website is a partnership with the NPS, the Gulag Museum, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

The Gulag Museum is a historic site museum based in a former forced labor camp, Perm-36. The exhibit is scheduled to open on Ellis Island in May 2006, the traveling exhibit will be the first international exhibition to present to the American public this significant and powerful history of the 20th century. The exhibit will travel subsequently to Boston; Atlanta; Independence, CA; and Washington, D.C.