You are holding in your hands a booklet that tells you about permanent exhibition of the public Nicholas Roerich Museum of the International Centre of the Roerichs (Moscow, Russia), which does no longer exist.
Since April 29, 2017, the work of the public Nicholas Roerich Museum has been stopped due to the illegal seizure of the Roerichs’ heritage and the Lopukhin Estate by the State Museum of Oriental Art with the direct involvement of the Ministry of
Culture of the Russian Federation.
The unique museum exposition, created over 25 years, was barbarously destroyed, and part of the expensive museum equipment as well as exhibits were deliberately damaged and broken.
“Destroying a museum means destroying the country,” Nicholas Roerich wrote in the 1940s, deeply believing in