Museum of Cosmonautics

The Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow is one of the largest science and technology museums in Russia. Its history began in 1964, when the monument "To the Conquerors of Space" appeared on the map of Moscow. Today, the Museum of Cosmonautics is among the top three most visited museums under the Moscow Department of Culture. The modern exhibition consists of eight exhibition halls. The museum's collection comprises over 110,000 items, including samples of rocket and space technology, material relics, documents, philately, numismatics, decorative and applied arts, as well as collections of painting and graphic art.