Approximately 160 kilometers south of Moscow in the town of Kaluga, the world’s first museum on the history of cosmonautics opened in 1967.

Members from Kaluga’s Academic Archives Commission created this museum, which first opened to the public in 1897 at the 17th-century Korobov Chambers.

Also one of Russia’s oldest museums and founded in 1884, the Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve’s first exhibition was the icon of martyrs Sts. Florus and Laurus, which a military officer donated as a gift..

About 140,000 objects at the Tula Regional Museum, founded in 1937, tell about the area’s history and nature. This includes Tula samovars, collections of rural and urban clothing from the 19th century and the Filimonovo toys made by local craftsme...

The Kolomna Ice Rink is a modern sport complex for ice-skating competitions and for sport training.

One of Russia’s first such museums when it first opened in 1958...

The Museum of Moscow archives the history of Russia’s capital from the Stone Age to the Modern Era, and is among the city’s oldest cultural institutions...

Moscow’s Polytechnical Museum, opened on 12 December 1872, is one of the world’s oldest...

The need for a design museum in Russia’s capital city was obvious to many, though there was no real effort to actually organize one until a group of art specialists, curators, architects and designers came together...

One of the Kaluga’s oldest regional museums, a 1932 resolution by the Council of Worker and Peasant approved its creation...