The Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps is one of the largest military and historical museums in the world, which owns a precious collection of artillery armaments and ammunition, small arms and bladed weapon, military engineering equipment, means of military communication, battle banners, military uniforms, battle paintings and drawi...
People always want to know how to make cartoons, what animation is and how it has developed. Now all their questions may be fully answered by the Moscow Museum of Animation (the Museum, for short).
On 22th September 2006, a great event has occurred in the museum life of Russia: the first and currently the only museum of animation was opened for ...
The Moscow City Museum (the Museum, for short) was founded in 1896 at the initiative of the Moscow city parliament, the Moscow City Duma. It was then called the Museum of Moscow Municipal Facilities and Services. In 1920, the Museum was renamed the Moscow Municipal Museum. In 1940 to 1986, the Moscow inhabitants knew it as the Museum of History and...
The Moscow Zoo has come a long way from small zoological gardens to a large scientific, cultural, educational, and nature-oriented organization.
The Zoo (then called the Moscow Zoological Gardens) was founded by the Russian Imperial Society for Plant and Animal Acclimatization in the middle of the XIX century. On the 13th February, 1864, it was ...
The Museum Factory in Nizhny Tagil was founded in January of 1989. The Museum is based on the territory of non-operated Kuibyshev Metallurgical Plant. The decommissioning of Kuibyshev Metallurgical Plant, started in 1960s, was accomplished in 1987.
Kuibyshev Metallurgical Plant took the place of the ironworks, owned by Nikolay Demidov, which had...
The Museum House of Alexander Grin (Alexander Stepanovich Grinevsky) (the Museum, for short) is a house where the writer lived from 1924 to 1929.
The Museum was opened on 9th July, 1970.
This was the house where Alexander Grin wrote such novels as She Who Runs on the Waves, The Golden Chain, The Road to Nowhere, Jessie and Morgiana, and many ...
The museum house of Boris Pasternak was formerly owned by a manager of factories in the village of Vsevolodo-Vilva (a village in Aleksandrovsk district, Perm region). The young poet and future author of Doctor Zhivago and Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak lived here for about six months, since January till the end of June of 1916.
After that th...
The Museum House of Maria Zankovetska (the Museum, for short) was opened in 1960 on the first floor of a small building No. 121 in Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya Street where the famous Ukraine actress lived for her last years.
The Museum exposition consists of a collection previously belonging to the State Museum of Theatre, Music, and Cinema Arts of U...
The Literary and Memorial Museum House of Mikhail Bulgakov (the Museum, for short), a department of the State Museum of the Kiev History, was founded in February of 1989.
The Museum occupies a house at 13 Andreyevsky Descent. The first floor of the house (7 rooms) is occupied by the main exhibition, The House of the Turbins, while the ground flo...