Cosmonautic Museum

The Memorial museum of astronautics has been solemnly opened on April, 10th, 1981, to the 20 anniversary of flight in space of first earthman JU.A.Gagarin. The museum was placed in stilobatnoj parts of a monument to " Subjugators of space " - one of the most known monuments of Moscow.

The Plan of creation of a museum belongs to the Main designer of space-rocket systems S.P. Queen. Developing rockets and space vehicles, With. The item of Queens understood their role in development of a world science and technics and did not disregard a problem of preservation of a scientific and technical heritage.

Before visitors come to life bright pages of history of the Soviet and Russian astronautics, the history full of dramatic nature and bitter disappointments, triumphal victories and pride of human mind. Everyone who comes to a museum, feels itself(himself) as the person of a space age, and it is promoted by unique decorating an exposition and interiors of the museum, executed under direction of the main artist and the author of the project O.P.Lomako.

Near to a museum, in the beginning of 1-st street Ostankinskoj, the branch of a museum - the Memorial house-museum of academician S.P. Korolev is located. The exposition is devoted to a life and creativity of our ingenious compatriot and an outstanding scientist, the founder of practical astronautics which has deduced mankind in space.

The Riches of a museum are made by the funds numbering more of 75 thousand of exhibits. They are samples of space technics, rare documents, kino-and photographic materials, products graphic and arts and crafts, subjects of numismatics and philately. The library of a museum has raritetnymi editions on space subjects.

Collections of a museum are widely shown at various exhibitions as in our country, and abroad. Exhibitions of a museum with success were exhibited at more than 40 cities of the world: Melbourn, Tel Aviv, Mainz, Minneapolis, Lyons, Liverpool, Boston, Seattle, Stockholm, Berlin and others.

The Museum will organize thematic evenings, meetings with founders of space technics, cosmonauts. Popularity of a museum of astronautics is extremely great, interest to space svershenijam results here thousand people and there can be for someone from visitors an acquaintance to it becomes a first step on a way of fine and difficult road to space.

Address: Korolev city