POLYTECHNICAL MUSEUM
Moscow’s Polytechnical Museum, opened on 12 December 1872, is one of the world’s oldest.
A group of Russian scientists from the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography founded the Polytechnical Museum, and its goal is to support society’s technical and intellectual culture through spreading scientific knowledge
The first exhibition opened on 30 May 1872, and was dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Tsar Pyotr I’s birth.
Subsequent exhibitions tell about the history of technology and its results as well as explain various technical principles.
The Polytechnical Museum is today Russia’s largest and holds over 190,000 objects and nearly 100,000 collections on various technical as well as scientific topics.
The Polytechnical Museum complex also contains a library that holds over 3 million books and printed publications.
Poetry and musical evenings, scientific presentations and the “Academy of Sciences at the Polytechnical” tribune take place in the museum’s main hall.
Address: Novaya pl. 3/4, pod. 1, Moscow
Official site
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