Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovich - the grandson of Nicholas I - was an enthusiastic numismatist. At the exhibition you can see unique coins from his collection, belonging to different eras.
Museum of Urania in the Moscow Planetarium 0+
The Urania Museum, named after the muse of astronomy, wonderful world scientific discoveries and unsolved mysteries space. There is a three-dimensional model of the solar system, a projector with an automatic control system, a collection of meteorites, and bewitchingly beautiful globes of the Earth, Moon, Mars and Venus.
Museum "Lunarium" in the Moscow Planetarium 0+
80 exhibits are designed to clearly demonstrate the operation of the laws of nature. Each of them is a real scientific laboratory that allows you to try on the role of an experimental scientist. Here you can create artificial clouds and tornadoes, generate electrical energy, compose electronic music, ride a space bike, find out your weight on other planets and more!
st. Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, 5, building 1Interactive exposition of the Darwin Museum "Walk the path of evolution" 0+
The Darwin Museum time machine will take you back 3.5 billion years. You will follow the labyrinth of evolution and discover the process of the emergence of all life on Earth. And here you can touch the fossilized remains of ancient trilobites and armored fish, ammonites and belemnites, sea urchins and lilies, the extinct reptile ichthyosaur, and the fossil shark Cladoselachia.
Interactive Center of the Darwin Museum "Know Thyself - Know the World" 0+
"Know yourself - know the world" - a whole universe that fits in an area of 200 square meters. The latest technologies allow you to learn a lot of interesting things about the world around you and yourself. So, for example, you can look at the world from a bird's eye view or through the eyes of a small mouse, measure strength with an elephant, hear the heartbeat of a hummingbird and beat your own heart.
st. Vavilova, d. 57The museum presents 60 arcade machines from the 1970s and 1980s, which at one time seemed to be the height of technical perfection. Many of them have survived in a single copy! Both those who remember the taste of a real Soviet ice cream and sparkling water with syrup for 3 kopecks, and later generations come here: for the first, this is an opportunity to make a nostalgic trip to the past, and for the second, a chance to find out how children and youth had fun for several decades back.
Ave. Mira, 119, building 57, first floor, st. Rozhdestvenka, 12"Mars-Tefo" is a full-size mock-up of the research station on Mars and the spaceport of the orbital station. Here you can test the environment for biosecurity, work with various robotic technologies, grow food in the conditions of another planet, help the captain in managing the station and check if there are any biorobots among the crew members.
st. Avtozavodskaya, 18Museum of entertaining sciences "Experimentanium" 6+
Why do the sands "sing"? When can a train accident be prevented using the laws of physics? What is bioinformatics and how to learn to read and understand the genetic code? Where can one conduct experiments with chemical polymers and find out the dependence of their composition on the color of the flame during combustion? Guests of the Experimentanium museum will find answers to these and many other questions.
pr. Leningradsky, 80, bldg. elevenChildren's Scientific Anti-Museum "InnoPark" 6+
Each exhibit reflects the operation of a law of physics. Visitors will be able to launch the wave themselves, get acquainted with the action of centrifugal force, assemble various puzzles, watch the Tesla show, recharge their emotions with the help of the Mood Ball and ride the first attraction in Moscow, the Gyroscope, the technology of which is used to prepare astronauts for flights!
Teatralny proezd, 5, building 1Museum of Illusions 0+
Do you want to ride on the Titanic, receive an award from the hands of the president, find yourself in the kingdom of Gulliver, walk a lion and swim in a river with crocodiles? Come to the Museum of Illusions and turn on your imagination! Interact with bright scenery, get positive emotions and take cool pictures.
Early childhood development experts say in unison: the more a child learns the world by “touching and feeling”, the brighter and more complete the picture of the surrounding reality will be in his head.
Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov
This applies not only to kids - remember, for example, how you forever imprinted Crimea in your memory by smelling cypresses and magnolias or touching a boulder heated by the sea with your hand. In general, there is still time before the end of the “summer liberation” from kindergartens and schools, so choose interactive museums in Moscow and go there with your children. Believe me, by touching a dinosaur tooth, they will learn and remember much more about its predatory owner than just looking at a picture in an encyclopedia.
Feel everything!
Darwin Museum(Vavilova street, 57, Akademicheskaya metro station) ➊.
Remember how, as a child, in natural history museums, you painfully wanted to touch a stuffed fox by the tail, but vigilant caretaker grandmothers stopped any research impulses ... Our children were much more fortunate. For example, in the Darwin Museum they are allowed not only to look at stuffed animals of all types and sizes, but also to go through the “Path of Evolution”, during which you can not only touch everything, but you need to.
What if they are... alive? Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov
Together with the children, you will be transported back to 3.5 billion years ago, touch the fossilized prints of plants and the first living organisms, feel the shells and weigh a mammoth tooth in your hand, sit at the site of a primitive man. Answering questions, you will go through the entire evolution together with the flora and fauna of the Earth - this is in a few hours! And at the end, you can climb the stairs to the trunk of an old oak tree and find out who lives in it.
"Experimentanium" (St. Butyrskaya, 46/2, metro station "Savelovskaya") ➋.
Having visited the Experimentanium, your child will never in his life associate the word “museum” with something dusty, strict and terribly boring (and, to be honest, many of us thought that about museums in childhood). Because there is everything that children love and respect in an adult way: soap bubbles, a mirror maze, optical illusions. A child can launch a Foucault pendulum, play with patterns of magnetic dust, pick up any musical instrument, visit the darkest room in the world and sit behind the wheel of a giant truck. Adults, looking around guiltily, stealthily also try to create a cloud or look into a model of a human eye - because it is impossible to resist. It is important that all this is not just “entertainment” - while playing and laughing, children learn and remember the basic laws of physics, chemistry, etc.
Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov
"Lunarium" (street Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, 5, building 1, metro station "Barrikadnaya") ➌.
It is better for children to go here with their mothers. Why? Because women who watch their kilograms (and, according to statistics, 99%) can find out their weight on ... other planets, and it is this, if the cosmic scales have played in your favor, that they indicate, for example, on dating sites. "Lunarium" - two-story, divided into two departments - "Astronomy and Physics" and "Comprehension of Space". Here, too, as in the "Experimentanium", you can create a tornado and clouds (it seems that this is becoming a typical Moscow entertainment. - Ed.), Consider the "Black Hole", "Hedgehog from Ferrofluid" and "Hyperboloid Magic Wand", and also visit in the lunar laboratory, look at stars and planets through a telescope, shoot at asteroids and even launch a rocket. In addition, your children can send a message to aliens - this is very stimulating for literacy and in general the desire to write ... outside the school year!
Surprise and rejoice
"Innopark" in the park "Sokolniki" (PKIO "Sokolniki", metro station "Sokolniki") ➍.
After winding up on the rides, it’s good to have a bite to eat in Sokolniki and unobtrusively captivate children to Innopark. In just 30 minutes, your child will be allowed to blow a giant soap bubble, control a robot and participate in gravity races. The guides guarantee that 90% of the children who have been on “inno-excursions” show an increased interest in physics and chemistry, which is quite understandable: they begin to put scientific experiments right at the entrance, it is impossible not to participate in the process. An explosion in a flask, a robot - a friend from watching cartoons, a soap bubble that does not burst for 3 hours and even drove home - prepare your child for the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University!
Museum of Soviet slot machines(Baumanskaya st., 11, metro station "Baumanskaya") ➎.
Even the “tablet generation” like slot machines. Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov
Now it is very difficult, you see, to tell modern children about your childhood: stumbling begins with the USSR and ends with pioneer ties. The best way to indulge your beloved child in your nostalgia is to take him to the interactive slot machine museum.
You can't light a lantern without a ladder. Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov
It is unrealistically difficult for 5-10-year-olds with their daily available computer games to imagine how we begged 15 kopecks from our parents for months to fight in Sea Battle, but here they can really feel it! "Safari", "Basketball", "Magistral", "Winter Hunt" plus soda from the machine - a rare chance to plunge into retro childhood and colorize modern childhood, because the children of 2014 in this museum are first surprised and then touched.
"Lights of Moscow" (Armyansky lane, 3/5, building 1, metro station "Chistye Prudy") ➏.
You and your child can r-be a lamplighter, make and paint a candle, learn to d-know the fire, r-attend a ball by candlelight and go around the center of Moscow with a special lamp at dusk. You can p-move to 1812, try yourself as a dispatcher at the lighting control panel, or touch the “s-tree with a torch”. Another option (these are additional programs) is to learn to write with a quill pen, play robber Cossacks (with an unobtrusive study of the history of Moscow streets) and even find a treasure! Apogee - tea from a coal samovar. Children squeak with delight and look with contempt at electric kettles at home.
There are museums in Moscow where children will not only spend time with pleasure, but will also develop their creative abilities. We have selected for you a list of the most informative and interesting children's museums in Moscow!
Museum of Russian folk toys
On the territory of the historical and architectural complex "Kremlin in Izmailovo" ("Russian Compound"), which was built by architects in the style of pre-Petrine Moscow, there are a number of national museums, including the Museum of Russian Folk Toys.
KudaGo: Izmailovskoye sh., 73-Zh, Russian Compound
Museum of Russian folk toys "Zabavushka"
Have you ever been to a museum where there are no showcases and you can touch everything? For a museum where toys are on display, this is especially true, because the main visitors are children.
KudaGo: st. 1st Pugachevskaya, 17
Museum of Russian fairy tales "Once upon a time"
The Children's Museum does not store rare publications and antiques, but kind and instructive tales that are passed down from generation to generation.
KudaGo: 119 Mira Ave., pavilion 8
Museum of ethnographic costumes on dolls
Not just dolls in costumes, but a reflection of different eras in the history of our country, created by children's hands.
KudaGo: st. Shipbuilding, 28/1
Honey Museum
A unique opportunity to see the whole process of honey birth: from building honeycombs by bees to pouring honey into jars and, of course, drinking tea with aromatic treats.
KudaGo: st. Kuzminskaya, 10
Darwin Museum
A huge visual illustration of the theory of Charles Darwin: tens of thousands of exhibits, each of which has a whole story behind it.
KudaGo: st. Vavilova, d. 57
Puzzle Museum
This is an interactive museum: puzzles are allowed to be touched, turned, disassembled and put back together. Their number is approaching 12,000.
KudaGo: st. Kosygina, 17, building 5
Museum of Soviet slot machines
Do you want to visit the island of childhood or find out how children had fun 30 years ago? Now you have such an opportunity.
KudaGo: st. Baumanskaya, 11
Factory of Christmas decorations at VDNKh
The Christmas tree decorations factory at VDNH museum was designed and built so that adults and children can see how one of the main attributes of the holiday is created - a festive Christmas tree toy. Museum visitors can not only look at the technology of making toys, but also take part in their creation - create a Christmas tree ball on their own.
KudaGo: vdnh
Forest Museum
A collection of wood from all over the world, a collection of butterflies, tree sections at the site of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite, samples of Karelian birch - this museum will be of interest to both adults and children.
KudaGo: 5th Monetchikovy lane, 4
Museum of the Cat
If you can’t calmly pass by a mustachioed-striped one, admire a cat and love it simply for the fact that it exists, you definitely need to visit this museum. It is dominated by the cult of the cat and everything connected with it.
KudaGo: Rublevskoe shosse, 109, building 1
Museum of Animation
The museum is dedicated to the history of the creation and development of Soviet and modern Russian animation.
KudaGo: All-Russian Exhibition Center, House of Culture, Pavilion 84A
Museum “M.I.R. chocolate"
The first museum of the history of the favorite delicacy in the capital. Tasting of chocolate and cocoa made according to recipes from different eras.
KudaGo: st. 1st Brestskaya, 2, building 3
Museum of Horse Breeding
Goby and Catch, Young Satin and Domestic, Smetanka and Ermine V - cute and funny nicknames of the most beautiful animals. Visitors can learn about the diversity of their types and breeds at the Horse Breeding Museum.
KudaGo: st. Timiryazevskaya, 44
Cheburashka Museum
The museum of the favorite hero of many generations of children was opened in 2008 in the new microdistrict Kozhukhovo, located in the east of the capital. It is divided into two parts - "street" and "internal". Both parts are located on the territory of kindergarten No. 2550.
KudaGo: st. Dmitrievsky, 3a, kindergarten No. 2550
Museum "Gems"
In the Museum "Gems" visitors can see the endless wealth of minerals in Russia. Here you can see precious, semi-precious and ornamental stones, stone-cutting art (vases, sculptures and even paintings), natural and artificial crystals, ancient fossils.
KudaGo: st. People's Militia, d.29/1
Space Museum
Achievements of domestic cosmonautics in the evidence of original exhibits that have been in space.
KudaGo: 111 Mira Ave.
InnoPark Museum
Science and entertainment center for children: many physical and chemical laboratories, where every experience turns into an ordinary miracle.
KudaGo: Sokolnichesky Val, 1
Museum of Unique Dolls
Doll collection from all over the world.
KudaGo: St. Pokrovka, 13, building 2
Harry Potter World Museum
Harry Potter fans will be delighted to hear this news. A museum dedicated to the famous Joan Rowling saga opens in Moscow.
KudaGo: Komsomolskaya square, 3
Paleontological Museum
The world's largest museum of evolution. Only here you can see with your own eyes the living history of the Earth from the origin of life to the emergence of human civilization.
KudaGo: st. Profsoyuznaya, 123
Pinocchio Museum
A fairy tale world in the center of a modern metropolis.
KudaGo: st. 2nd Parkovaya, 18
Museum-theater "Our Ice Age"