Panticapaeum: From the Past into the Future  


Exhibition architecture and design
Volga–Vyatka Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal)
822 м2
16.11.2025–01.03.2026

The exhibition “Panticapaeum: From the Past into the Future” approaches the archaeological expedition not only as a source of knowledge about the ancient city, but also as a mode of thinking in which research, movement, and work with fragments shape a distinctive way of perceiving the past. The project is dedicated to the long-term excavations of Panticapaeum — the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom — and reinterprets them through the language of contemporary museum architecture.

The exhibition is conceived as a spatial route that references the logic of an archaeological excavation: layers, ruptures, discoveries, and voids become the foundation of the architectural composition. Rather than presenting a linear historical narrative, the project offers visitors an immersive experience of the research process itself, where artifacts, archival materials, graphics, and media coexist within a unified environment.

 
Junior Architect: Alena Knyazeva
Curators: Vladimir Tolstikov, Olga Samar, Pavel Nikulin
Coordinators: Olga Gavrilina, Daria Kolpashnikova, Marina Tatarnikova, Ekaterina Teplova, Daria Tkacheva, Stanislav Tsolina
Photography: Vladimir Gudkov



Panticapaeum: From the Past into the Future 


Exhibition architecture and design
Volga–Vyatka Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal)
822 м2
16.11.2025–01.03.2026

The exhibition “Panticapaeum: From the Past into the Future” approaches the archaeological expedition not only as a source of knowledge about the ancient city, but also as a mode of thinking in which research, movement, and work with fragments shape a distinctive way of perceiving the past. The project is dedicated to the long-term excavations of Panticapaeum — the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom — and reinterprets them through the language of contemporary museum architecture.

The exhibition is conceived as a spatial route that references the logic of an archaeological excavation: layers, ruptures, discoveries, and voids become the foundation of the architectural composition. Rather than presenting a linear historical narrative, the project offers visitors an immersive experience of the research process itself, where artifacts, archival materials, graphics, and media coexist within a unified environment.

Junior Architect: Alena Knyazeva
Curators: Vladimir Tolstikov, Olga Samar, Pavel Nikulin
Coordinators: Olga Gavrilina, Daria Kolpashnikova, Marina Tatarnikova, Ekaterina Teplova, Daria Tkacheva, Stanislav Tsolina
Photography: Vladimir Gudkov


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