The "Perm-36" Memorial Museum of the History of Political Repression is located on the site of a corrective labour camp (institution VS 389/36; settlement Kuchino, Perm district) that was operative here from 1946 to 1988. From 1972, this camp was used to contain “particularly dangerous state criminals”, i.e. people sentenced under the "political" clauses of the Penal Code. The Museum was established through the efforts of a group of enthusiasts from the Perm branch of the “Memorial” society, supported by the regional administration. The Musuem officially opened in 1995. This is the only complex in Russia where a camp zone itself has been memorialised. Restoration work began in 1994. At present (April 2010) up to 50% of the buildings and facilities of the former camp have been restored, refurbished and adapted for museum display. The Museum archive holds more than a thousand items: a photograph collection, a collection of audio and video recordings of interviews with former inmates, and copies of documents from the Gulag's history, from the regional and central archives. The museum's object collection holds around 700 items, mostly objects relating to the labour and everyday life of the prisoners of VS 389/36. The permanent exhibitions are set out in one of the barracks in which the prisoners were housed; the temporary exhibitions are displayed in the same place. The Museum regularly conducts themed excursions. The Museum has also created travelling exhibitions that are shown in the distant parts of Perm region, in other regions and abroad. Among them are the exhibitions "GULAG. Istoriia odnogo lageria" [“GULAG. The Story of a Camp"] (USA, 2003) and "Uroki istorii v muzee GULAGa" [“History lessons in the GULAG museum”] (Moscow, 2003). In addition, there is the travelling exhibition "GULAG. Trudovye lageria Rossii i bor'ba za svobodu" ["GULAG: Russian Labour Camps and the Struggle for Freedom”], telling the story of the Soviet camps between 1929 and 1953, the resistance to Communist ideology from the 1960s to the 1980s, the state’s struggle with dissidents, the collapse of the Communist system and modern day Russia.