Moscow Polytechnical Museum was founded in the second half of the 19th century - in 1872. The founding of the museum on the basis of a scientific exhibition was timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Emperor Peter I. At present, the Moscow Polytechnic Museum is one of the most ancient museums similar profile in the world.

Since 1991, the Polytechnic Museum has been included in the list of especially valuable objects. cultural heritage Russia.

The historical building of the museum, in which it was originally opened (New Square of the Capital), is under reconstruction until 2020. The main exposition area is located at VDNKh, in pavilion No. 26. It is called "Russia does it herself." There are also sites in the ZIL Cultural Center at the Avtozavodskaya metro station (Scientific laboratories of the museum) and in Tekstilshchiki, at the site of the former AZLK, the current Moscow technopolis (Library of the Polytechnic University and Open Collections).

Polytechnic Museum: tickets and opening hours

Prices for tickets to the Moscow Polytechnic Museum depend on the site - a separate ticket is purchased for each.

• VDNH

You can visit the exhibition "Russia does it yourself" from Tuesday to Friday from 11:00 to 19:00, on weekends - from 11:00 to 21:00, Monday is a day off.

An adult ticket will cost 350 rubles on weekdays, 400 rubles on weekends. Student ticket - 200 rubles on weekdays, 250 rubles on weekends. Ticket for pensioners - 150 rubles on weekdays, 200 rubles on weekends. Children under 14 can only visit the exhibition accompanied by an adult. It is possible to organize excursions for groups and conduct open lessons in physics and chemistry for high school students.

• Technopolis "Moscow"

A visit to the exhibition "Open Collections" is possible only as part of a guided tour. Group tours take place every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 10:00, 12:00 and 15:00. The duration of one tour is one and a half hours. Registration for the tour is carried out at least a week before the start, always with a full prepayment.

The cost of the tour depends on the size of your group: 1200 rubles for a group of up to 5 people, 2400 rubles for 6-12 people. Detailed price list for school groups on this page of the official website of the Polytechnic Museum.

• Scientific laboratories at the ZIL Cultural Center

On the basis of scientific laboratories are open lessons and workshops in chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics, as well as in robotics for children and adolescents. This is where students prepare for the exam. The cost of classes depends on the chosen discipline and is specified by the site administration.

You can buy tickets for the museum expositions online, at, using the "Buy" button. The purchased online ticket must be printed out - the payment receipt is not a pass ticket.

exposition

The exhibition spaces of the Polytechnic University are divided between two sites - VDNKh and the Moscow Technopolis.

VDNH

The temporary exhibition titled "Russia Does Itself" tells about the great Russian scientists of the past and the present, about legendary scientific discoveries and little-known developments of our time. A standard tour of the exhibition includes: stories about the most unusual ideas use of atomic energy; a boring story about electromagnetic waves and the "taming" of lightning; a story about famous discoveries inspired by nature. You can order an individual excursion on a topic of interest from the field of physics, biology and chemistry.

Technopolis Moscow

The technopolis exhibits the collection of the Polytechnic University, accumulated over almost 150 years of history. Among the exhibits of the exhibition: the first bicycles, cars and computers; antique watch mechanisms; the first space suits and models of rockets. Sightseeing tour in an exhibition called secret life museum” in a non-boring form tells about the world-famous and previously unexhibited exhibits, about the development of scientific thought in Russia. You can also purchase tickets for interactive program"I am a museum expert." The program is designed for elementary school students and includes quizzes and competitions, stories about the inner life of the museum and its employees.

How to get to the Moscow Polytechnic Museum

Since the exhibitions of the Polytechnic Museum of Moscow are located in different parts of the capital, there is no universal route. Each exhibition has its own individual path.

How to get to the exhibition "Russia makes itself"

The exposition is located at VDNKh, in the exhibition pavilion No. 26. The journey from the VDNKh metro station will take at least 15 minutes. You need to go through the VDNKh entrance and keep to the left. Pavilion No. 26 is located next to the model of the MI-8T helicopter. Also, you can get to VDNKh by trolleybuses, trams, buses, minibuses to the stop of the same name. In order not to go through almost the entire Exhibition Center to Pavilion No. 26, you can take a special minibus that runs through the territory of VDNKh, a map of its route is available at the link.

How to get to the exhibition "Open Collections"

Address of the Open Collections exposition: Volgogradsky prospect, 42, building 5. To get to the Moscow Technopolis, you need to take the metro to the Tekstilshchiki station (the last car from the center). Next: turn right and cross Shosseinaya Street, go past gate number 3 and go into the entrance with the inscription "Open Collections". There is a stop in front of the technopolis complex public transport"Volgogradsky prospect 47", to which buses No. 161, 193, 703 run.

How to get to «Nauchnih laboratorii»

Before cultural center ZIL can be reached by metro - to the Avtozavodskaya station. From the metro station to the center of ZIL - 11 minutes on foot along Vostochnaya Street. The nearest stop of ground transport, "Vostochnaya", is 8 minutes on foot. Bus number 9 runs to it.

The exhibitions can also be reached by taxi. In Moscow, you can call a car with a driver using all the most popular taxi applications: Taxi Lucky, Yandex. Taxi, Uber, Gett, Maxim.

Video from the exhibition at VDNKh

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The Polytechnic Museum (Polytech) at 3/4 is one of the first science and technology museums planets. It was created on the basis of the exhibits of the Polytechnic Exhibition held in Moscow in 1872.

Today the main building of the Polytechnic Museum is under reconstruction. The renovated museum will open its doors in 2018.

Photo 1. The building of the Polytechnic Museum on New Square, 3/4

The history of the construction of the Polytechnic University

The construction of the museum building became possible due to the fact that in 1871 City Council allocated 500 thousand rubles for these purposes, and also transferred a plot of land to, 4. Directly at the Polytechnic Museum was in 1966, when the "Shipov's house" (aka "Shipovskaya fortress") was demolished from the side of one of its facades, in which Before the revolution, the Imperial Humanitarian Society was located.

For the first time, the museum's exposition was presented in 1872, where it was held in a temporarily arranged building.

In 1877, the architect Ippolit Antonovich Monighetti completed the design of the central part of the new museum building at the current New Square, 3/4. The construction work was supervised by the architect Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shokhin.

The southern part of the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, which also housed the Lubyansko-Ilyinsky shopping arcade, was built according to the project of architect Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shokhin six years later - in 1883 (construction work was carried out under the guidance of architects and his assistant).

The northern building was erected in the period from 1903 to 1907. The project was drawn up by the architect Georgy Ivanovich Makaev, and the work was supervised by Vasily Ivanovich Yeramishantsev and.

The Polytechnic Museum is 190 thousand items, about 150 collections various subjects, and its library contains about 3.5 million books and print publications.

Some historical facts

• the basis of the first exposition is the exhibits of the All-Russian Polytechnic Exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Peter I;

• original purpose museum complex- museum of applied knowledge. Its first exposition consisted of 9 departments, telling about the achievements of Russia in the field of applied sciences, including physics, chemistry, architecture, etc.;

• in the museum building in 1907 a large auditorium was opened, which became the main public platform of the city of Moscow. It was there that public scientific experiments were carried out, lectures were given, disputes were held, various literary evenings. Over the years, scientists Niels Bohr, Konstantin Timiryazev, Ilya Mechnikov, as well as representatives of the creative intelligentsia Alexander Blok, Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Evgeny Yevtushenko and many others have performed here;

• during the First World War, infirmaries for wounded soldiers and officers were equipped in the building on New Square, 3/4, an X-ray room functioned, in which patients from all Moscow hospitals were examined;

• The museum was renamed the Central Institute of Polytechnic Knowledge in 1919. The main thing in his activity was the conduct of various scientific research, as well as the distribution in the Land of Soviets. scientific knowledge and discoveries in a popular format for the population;