Moscow is a huge city with more than 400 museums. The most visited are technical. The exposition of such exhibition centers includes the world's creations of man, as well as the equipment and technologies of outstanding inventors, experimenters and scientists.
The article describes the best technical museums in Moscow that are suitable for family pastime.
Polytechnic Museum
This is the scientific and technical museum of Moscow, which is the largest in the world. Here are collected objects and devices that demonstrate the stages of development of technical thought. In total, the museum has more than 250 thousand exhibits.
The collection of vehicles is especially popular with visitors: bicycles, motorcycles, cars. And the pride of the exhibition is a Russian car, which was produced even before the revolution in 1911 - Russo-B alt K12/20.
Also there is a technique that is united by the theme Communication andradio electronics. This exposition contains telephone exchanges, television receivers, devices that previously reproduced and recorded sound, and much more.
In addition, here is a complete collection of rare author's instruments, including Bunyakovsky's self-calculators, arithmometers, as well as the only copy of the Russian Ural computer and others.
There are 2 sites where exhibits of the museum are exhibited. At VDNKh, pavilion 26 presents the exposition "Russia does everything by itself", which exhibits the technical and scientific developments of Russian scientists.
Open collections are located on the territory of the technopolis in Moscow. This is the first museum depository in the capital, open to all comers. This exposition is located at the address: Volgogradsky Prospekt, Building 42, Building 5 (Tekstilshchiki metro station).
Railway Museum
This exhibition complex is located on two sites. The first is located in the open air on the territory adjacent to the Rizhsky railway station. The second (historical) one is located on Kozhevnicheskaya street near Paveletsky railway station.
At both sites, visitors can see the railway transport that previously carried passengers, get acquainted with the design of models, the device. You can sit in the office of the head of the station, as well as in the first-class compartment on the train, which traveled back in the time of Nicholas II.
The main exhibit of the museum is the steam locomotive U127. It was the funeral transport of Lenin, which was preserved in a single copy. Also in the closed (historical) paviliondrawings, layouts and maps that were used in pre-revolutionary times are presented.
Museum of Cosmonautics
This is one of the largest scientific, historical and technical museums in Moscow and the world. The museum opened in 1981, on April 10, although the collection for the exhibition was already prepared in 1969. By 2017, the number of exhibition materials reached 96,000.
The exposition of the Space Technical Museum in Moscow is divided into several sections: "Morning of the Space Age", "History of the Universe", "Manned Cosmonautics", "Creators of the Space Age", "Cosmonautics for Humanity", "Exploration of the Moon and Planets of the Solar System"”, “International Space Park”, “International Space Cooperation”.
The most significant exhibit items:
- Stuffed Belka and Strelka, as well as the original ejection container in which the animals returned to Earth.
- The descent vehicle of the Soyuz-37 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1980.
- The first artificial satellite of the Earth, which opened the space age in 1957.
- Descent vehicles of the Mars-3 and Venera-4 automated interplanetary stations.
- Soyuz docking unit and many other exhibits.
The exhibition complex is located on Prospekt Mira, 111 (VDNKh). Every day this scientific, historical and technical museum of Moscow is visited by thousands of tourists from all over the world. This is the perfect place for a family holiday.
Apple Technology Museum
Visitors of this technicalmuseums in Moscow can feel the greatness of the grandest startup of the 20th century, and also understand how the desire of one person can change the whole world.
In this exhibition complex Andrey Antonov, a collector, and Evgeny Butman, the founder of re:Store, collected the first compact personal computers, laptops, smartphones associated with Apple. There are no such museums in any country in Europe and Asia, so the Apple Technology Museum in Moscow is a tourist attraction.
In addition to the "ancient technology", there are exhibits that allow you to trace the evolution of the keyboard, mouse, set-top box, digital cameras and other accessories. The exposition of the exhibition clearly shows and tells about the path that the device traveled before becoming what it is now.
The museum is located on Skladochnaya Street, building 3, building 1. Nearby is the Dmitrovskaya metro station.
Electro Museum
This Technical Museum of Moscow is located on Rostokinskaya Street, Building 1. It opened in 2013 and today is the only museum in Russia that specializes in media interactive and electronic art.
Exhibitions of foreign and Russian media art artists, educational seminars, lectures, music concerts by various performers are regularly held here.
Also featured here is the only sound installation by Markus Popp, a well-known musician, sound installations by Peter Zinoviev and German Vinogradov.
This is one of the best technical museums in Moscow forschoolchildren. It has educational studios for children, where they teach the basics of filming, directing, and editing. Older kids can learn how to cartoon.
Moscow Transport
The museum is located at: st. Rogozhsky Val, 9/2. This is one of the branches of State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans, which contains unique retro models of all types of urban transport: trucks / cars, trams, taxis, trolleybuses, buses that once carried passengers along Moscow streets.
You can also see fire engines, medical and police cars and vehicles carrying Soviet leaders.
Every year the museum organizes themed runs and traveling exhibitions. Also, the exhibits often participate in the filming of movies and parades. Such a technical museum of Moscow will appeal to both adults and children.
Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology
This is one of the largest private museums of ancient technology in Europe and Russia. Collector Vadim Zadorozhny collected here the best antique cars of the last century: motorcycles, air and combat vehicles, weapons and vintage cars.
This Museum of Technology is located near Moscow, in the Krasnogorsk district, 4th microdistrict, on Ilyinsky highway, building 9. The exposition is located on 3 floors, where unique Soviet and foreign retro cars, aircraft, motorcycles are presented. Also presented here are armored vehicles, artillery and agricultural vehicles manufactured in the 30-80s and weapons.
ThisThe museum will be very interesting for children, teenagers and adults. Master classes are held here on assembling and disassembling a Kalashnikov assault rifle, you can ride armored vehicles, retro cars.
Museum of Computing Technology
This is a unique and non-standard Museum of the History of Technology in Moscow. Many samples of computing devices were collected here - from the most primitive to modern Soviet computers, which once cost a lot of money.
The museum is famous for the fact that everything here can be touched and tried in work. The exposition presents: adding machines, logarithmic circles and rulers, punched cards and punched tapes, domestic and foreign calculators, computers and tables, ancient Chinese and Japanese abacus, as well as other items.
This museum is located in Moscow at the address: Yegerskaya street, house 4, in the building of gymnasium No. 1530, not far from the Sokolniki metro station. You can visit the exhibition of computer technology for free.
Museum complex of radio electronics
This is an excellent technical museum of Moscow for children, where they can learn about the development of radio engineering in our country. It is located in the 54th College of Communications at the address: Ryazansky Prospekt, Building 8, Building 2, not far from the Ryazansky Prospekt metro station.
Museum employees have collected unique historical exhibits here: home-made transceivers, collective radio stations, sets of equipment, things of radio amateurs. There are also lectures for schoolchildren, meetings of veterans and training sessions.
Russian Navy Museum
There are sometechnical museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The Belokamennaya museum was opened in 2006 on the territory of the Northern Tushino park. Here, adults and children can learn everything about the internal structure of the B-396 diesel submarine, see the Skat assault boat and the Orlyonok ekranoplan.
The most interesting exhibit is the submarine. This museum of Moscow is located on a real military submarine, where you can explore the life of the sailors of the submarine fleet and feel like part of the team.
Technical Museum in St. Petersburg - S-189 submarine. Here you can touch all the equipment and equipment, ring the ship's bell-bell, sit in the navigator's chair, and also learn everything about the responsible work of submariners and even try yourself in such work.
Open Museum of Military Equipment
Located in the Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill. Visitors are greeted by military equipment, pre-Soviet aircraft, armored vehicles, tanks, anti-aircraft guns and much more. This is a great place for a family weekend.
Technical museums of Moscow for children
- "Bunker-42", located at the address: 5th Kotelnichesky lane, building 11, not far from the Taganskaya metro station. This is the only underground secret bunker in the world, which is located underground at a depth of 65 meters. Now it is a functioning museum.
- Children's center of scientific discoveries called "Innopark". It is located in the Sokolniki park on the Sokolnichesky circle passage, inhouse 9, and on Teatralny proezd, house 5/1. This is an interactive exhibition center where the little guests can touch the exhibits, push the buttons, spin the propellers - in short, explore everything in the exhibition hall.
- Robostation, which is located at the address: Prospekt Mira, 119, in the VDNKh Exhibition Center in the second pavilion. Here, an exhibition of robots from all over the world is presented for children.
- An interactive museum called Rise of the Machines, which is located on Volgogradsky Prospekt, building 42, building 2, in a unique building that looks like a real flying saucer. There are 14 themed rooms featuring Decepticons and Autobots, Terminator, Predators, Aliens, Star Wars characters, horror movie characters and more.
- Gallery of computer evolution. This is one of the technical museums of the city of Moscow, intended for children. Here you can play the legendary Dandy prefix, see the first processors, arithmometers, Kurt's calculator, floppy disks and much more. This gallery is located at: Nagorny proezd, house 3, building 5.
- Museum of entertaining sciences "Experimentarium", where children can visit the zones of acoustics, optics, magnetism, mechanics, electricity, water installations, space. Everything here can be touched and pulled. This museum is located near the Sokol metro station, on Leningradsky Prospekt, house 80, bldg. 11.
Reviews about Moscow technical museums
The Museum of Technology of Vadim Zadorozhny received the highest rating from visitors. Everyone is talking aboutexcellent exposition, convenient location and delicious food in the cafe and field kitchen. Children can climb the tank, take part in master classes and look at those cars that no longer drive on our roads.
Very praised by visitors to the Apple Technology Museum. All exhibition models work there, you can study the whole history - from the first device to the most modern one. The only thing, some say that it is not easy to get to the museum, but this is a very small minus.
From the "Experimentarium" everyone is delighted - from young to old. The biggest plus, as follows from the reviews, is that you do not need to pull the child: “do not touch”, “do not come close”. Interactive platforms are just designed for young researchers to touch and examine everything. Special thanks were given to science shows, which are held almost every day. According to visitors, at least a day should be allocated to this museum - everything is so fascinating there.
All museums of technology in Moscow are glad to see residents and guests of the city both on weekends and on weekdays. Thanks to this pastime, you can learn the history of technology and its further development. Children are always interested in visiting such places. A special advantage of such museums is the fact that many of the exhibits can be touched.
Excursions are organized for school groups, where experienced guides will tell about the history of a particular exhibit and present information in an accessible language. There are also guided tours for adults.
