Cosmonaut Museum

Cosmonaut Museum
Phone
+7 (495) 2837914
Website
Cosmonaut Museum
Address
Prospekt Mira 111

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Editor's review

The Cosmonaut Museum was built in 1964 to commemorate the launch of Sputnik twenty years earlier and to celebrate the achievements of Soviet Russia in astronautics. The small museum is housed in the base of the highly impressive 'Conquerors of Space' monument, an enormous silver rocket soaring into the sky on a 100m stream of glistening Titanium. Once you have stopped gawping at this wonderful projection, make your way inside to the museum itself where you will find a fascinating collection of engines, moon-walkers, model satellites and space suits (including that of the legendary Yuri Gargarin!). The depictions of constellations and atmospheric lighting (or lack of it) help recreate an aura of outer space.

Editor
Editor & Moscow Local

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Joachim
Switzerland

Great museum, a must for all space enthusiasts! Lots of paraphernalia, very well exhibited. Very easy to get to: right next to the metro station.

Reply Jul 6th, 2011
Little Bo
United Kingdom

Really interesting museum but with lots of amazing exhibits and stories. Unfortunately I couldn't understand any of it as it was all in Russian. A real shame as a bit of text in a common language (English/Spanish/French) would have really made it. Definitely worth a visit though.

Reply Apr 13th, 2011
Angelo
United States

I really like NASA stuff, so when I'm in Moscow, I'll have to check this out. Probably quite different, I'm guessing.

Reply May 27th, 2010
red
United Kingdom

my russian friend took me here... very interesting museum!! check it out

Reply Mar 13th, 2009
Claire
United States

Retro and awesome! I love this kind of stuff so had a great time. Learned a lot from a distinctly Russian perspective... fascinating!

Reply Feb 9th, 2009
Larry
United States

Fantastic old museum. Retro but cool. Fantastic socialist reliefs on the rocket monument outside. Worth the trip north for the Cosmonaut museum

Reply May 17th, 2007
Duncan Rhodes
United Kingdom

Nice museum, in a curious kind of way. A lot of the exhibits are models rather than the real things (presumably because they are 'lost in space'), but still worth the short trip north. Amusingly when we tried to take a photo we were told we had to buy a special pass, but only seconds after we politely demurred, the very same attendant was insisting that we posed for a shot in front of Yuri Gargarin - while she manned the camera! Then she went off and fined an American guy with a cam-corder!!! Must be our English charm....

Reply Aug 19th, 2005
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