In addition to the permanent display every year numerous occasional exhibitions as well as promotional and cultural-cum-stage programs (concerts, theatrical performances, and promotions) are being held. At the beginning of the 21st century, the work of the Museum is characterized by a wide range of activity, holdings that are constantly being enlarged, a large number of exhibitions put on within and outside the Museum, including, increasingly, abroad, a rich and vigorous publication program, new forms of business operations that derive from the needs of visitors (generating the production of replicas and museum souvenirs, the museum shop) and the application of contemporary museological standards.