The authors show the features of the formation, transmission and assimilation of historical knowledge in the age of computer technologies. The paper pays attention to the danger of the false and destructive socio-philosophical ideas and so-called new national histories. The thesis of a significant politicization of history in the modern world is substantiated. The authors emphasize the need to preserve school museums and, on the whole, actualize biographical historical memory of pupils and students. This was the basis of the concept of a virtual museum "Soldiers of Victory" which had already been implemented as a modern public, open, creative, informational and educational project.