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Polytechnical Museum

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Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Polytechnical Museum
Phone:
+7 495 730-54-38

Hours:
Sunday10am - 9pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 8pm
Wednesday10am - 8pm
Thursday10am - 8pm
Friday10am - 8pm
Saturday10am - 9pm


The Polytechnic Museum is one of the oldest science museums in the world, located in Moscow that emphasizes the progress of Russian and Soviet technology and science, as well as modern inventions and developments. It was founded in 1872 after the first All-Russian Technical Exhibition on the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great at the initiative of the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography. The first stage of the museum was designed by Ippolit Monighetti and completed in 1877. Almost from the beginning, the collection was too big for the space. The north wing was added in 1896 and the south wing in 1907. At present the main building of the museum is closed for reconstruction. The opening of the renovated museum in this building is scheduled for 2018. From 2013 and for the whole period of renovation the museum will work in partnership venues in Moscow. It is the largest technical museum in Russia, offering a wide array of historical inventions and technological achievements, including humanoid automata of the 18th century and the first Soviet computers. Its collection contains more than 160,000 items in 65 halls including, chemistry, mining, metallurgy, transport, energy, optics, automation, computer engineering, radio electronics, communications, and space exploration. Highlights include the first achromatic telescope; an early solar microscope, created by German anatomists Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn; an early seismograph created by Boris Borisovich Galitzine; galvanoplastics by Moritz von Jacobi; and early electric lights by Pavel Yablochkov. The automobile exhibit includes a Russo-Balt K12/20 and a GAZ-M20 Pobeda.
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