Today, many museums are not just an exhibition of exhibits that need to be viewed and studied for hours. Modern technologies make it possible to turn a visit to the museum into a real interactive holiday, which attracts not only adults, but also children.
In Moscow, in recent years, many specialized children's museums have been created, in which educational programs are successfully combined with entertainment, and various shows, master classes and performances are held. To get to the most popular museums without queues, purchase museum excursions in Moscow on our website.
Space Museum
Which child did not dream of becoming an astronaut when the first flights to the stars began? The generation of dreamers has long grown up, but their children and grandchildren will also be interested in learning about the pioneers of the Universe, galactic systems, distant planets and everything related to outer space.
You will be told in detail about the history of space at the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics, which opened in the 80s. last century in the stylobate of a memorial monument near the VDNKh metro station. Not long ago, the building was reconstructed, restored and new exhibitions were opened.
The room is decorated in the shape of a large spaceship. On an excursion to the museum, children will be interested in seeing the descent vehicles and the first artificial satellite of the Earth, and learning the history of the legendary dogs that conquered the heavens - Belka and Strelka.
- In the cinema hall you will be shown an interesting film about the everyday life of astronauts in zero gravity.
- Interactive simulators will allow you to control the spacecraft as in a real flight.
- The museum even has a miniature Mission Control Center, from where you can truly establish communication with the interplanetary station and the astronauts working on it.
- There is a special educational program for the little ones.
The most interesting Museums for children in Moscow. Worth to visit!
If you still think that museums are boring and there is no place for children, then you are simply unfamiliar with “non-boring” museums for children,
where special interactive excursions have been invented for little visitors, master classes are held where children can get to know their favorite fairy tale characters better and create a cartoon with their own hands!
Didn't know this could happen?
Then Welcome to the section dedicated to museums that you can visit with your children!
No one will be bored here!
1. Planetarium
is a stellar museum. Here children learn about the world of space, constellations and instruments with the help of which such distant space was explored. And you can feel like a real astronaut by visiting a 4D cinema.
Address:
Moscow, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya st., 5, building 1
Opening hours:
from 10:00 to 21:00,
exit and holiday days from 10:00 to 22:00,
day off - Tuesday
Telephone:
Website:
www.planetarium-moscow.ru
2. Experimentanium
created for a fascinating study of the laws of science and phenomena of the surrounding world.
Here, thanks to exciting master classes, educational excursions and interactive games, children form the opinion that science is entertaining, very interesting and not at all difficult! Address:
Russia, Moscow, st.
Butyrskaya, building 46/2 Telephone
, +7
Opening hours:
9:30 - 19:00 weekdays 10:00 - 20:00 weekends, holidays
Website:
www.experimentanium.ru
3. State Darwin Museum.
Moving dinosaur models; scales on which you can measure your weight in mice or bears; computers with Internet access; giant flat screens showing films about animals. Special events are organized for children: excursions, competitions, educational exhibitions, etc. Spring is greeted with larks made of dough, which anyone can make. In the fall, exhibitions and competitions of children's posters and drawings on environmental themes are organized.
Address:
st.
Vavilova, 57 m. University, Academic Tel:
, 132 10 47, 134 61 24 (tour desk),
Opening hours:
Tue-Sun 10.00–18.00, except the last Friday of the month, the ticket office closes half an hour earlier
Website:
www.darwin.museum .ru
4. Biological Museum -
This is a museum of amazing discoveries in the world of animals and plants. At the moment, the museum is participating in the “To the Museums with the Whole Family” program with a special program for children dedicated to the theme “Freedom”. The Museum regularly hosts interactive excursions for children, classes with microscopes, broadcasts of films dedicated to wildlife in 3D format, and potions master classes are held on Thursdays!
Address:
Moscow, st.
Malaya Gruzinskaya, 15 Phones
, 8(499)252-07-49, 8(499)252-36-81 (excursion department)
Website:
www.gbmt.ru
5. The Russ Museum of their Fairy Tales
is
a museum in which theatrical excursions are held especially for young visitors, during which children, through fairy tales, get acquainted with the culture, customs and traditions of the Russian people, the work of writers and artists. Children transform into fairy-tale characters and, together with guides - also fairy-tale characters, “travel” through fairy tales.
Address:
Izmailovskoe highway, 73.zh.
Kremlin in Izmailovo Phone:
bus. (495) 974-61-87 call (495) 166-58-71
Opening hours:
daily from 10 to 17.30
Website:
www.domskazok.ru/ru-tale
6. Museum of Pinocchio and Pinocchio.
The museum hosts theatrical excursions for children aged 5 - 12 years, during which children get acquainted with the history of the creation of a book about a wooden man, with the biography of its authors, meet fairy-tale characters and become spectators of a puppet show.
They even try on the costumes of fairy-tale characters, going to Papa Carlo’s closet, to the Karabas Barabas theater, to visit Malvina, to the pond of Tortila the turtle. Address:
Moscow, st.
2nd Parkovaya, 18 Tel:
,
Website:
www.domskazok.ru/wood-tale
7. Museum - Theater “Our Ice Age”
.
Only here visitors are given a unique opportunity to touch the teeth and tusks of a mammoth, hold the horn of a woolly rhinoceros in their hands, and visit Stone Age hunters. The exhibition is accompanied by sound and light effects. Address:
the museum is located on the territory of the All-Russian Exhibition Center in pavilion No. 71, to the right of the Main Pavilion.
Travel by metro to VDNH station.
Tel:
;
Operating mode:
winter season: Tue-Fri – 10:00 to 18:00.
Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 10:00 to 19:00. summer season (30.04-28.09): Tue-Fri - from 10:00 to 19:00. Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 10:00 to 20:00. Website
: www.iceage.ru
8. Museum of Animation.
At the Museum, adults, children and even the elderly will learn about the process of creating cartoons, how inanimate objects can move, whether an “éclair” is just a cake, and much more! It is here that you can see real phases, models, sketches, dolls, scenery, which are, first of all, the spiritual value of domestic animation, because some exhibits are more than 50 years old, which means that most of the collection falls on the heyday or so-called “ golden period" of the film studio "Soyuzmultfilm". The “Museum of Animation” is not just exhibits, which, without the accompaniment of a qualified guide, are perhaps not very interesting to look at... It is, first of all, an overview and educational excursion into the history of animation!
Address:
Moscow, All-Union Exhibition Center No. 84
Tel:
, +7(495) 940-79-60
Opening hours:
For independent inspection of the exhibition -
from 1100 to 1800 on weekdays and from 1100 to 1900 on weekends. Closed on Monday.
Reception of excursion groups is carried out daily, seven days a week
, by appointment. Shows start at 10.00 12.00 14.00 16.00 18.00
Website:
www.animamuseum.ru
9. Museum of Unique Dolls.
Well, which girl doesn't love dolls? Here is a unique collection of dolls created no earlier than the beginning of the 20th century from different countries of the world. The multi-story dollhouses contain tiny furniture, all like real ones: beds with blankets and pillows, sideboards with vases and silverware, wardrobes with dresses, hats and shoes.
Address:
Moscow, st.
Pokrovka, 13 building 2 Phones:
, 625 75 12
Website:
www.dollmuseum.ru
10. Baron Munchausen Museum.
At the museum, you and your children will meet Munchausen’s literary double and learn a little more about the hero of the fairy tale. You will hear stories about how performances were created and books were written about the most truthful person in the world.
Address:
Moscow, Narodnogo Opolcheniya str., 12, building 6.
metro station "Oktyabrskoe Pole", trolleybus 61 to the stop "Karamyshevskaya embankment".
Telephone:
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Website:
www.munchhausen.ru
11. Ice Museum in Sokolniki.
Do you want to find yourself in the kingdom of the Snow Queen herself? Then dress warmly and come to the Ice Museum. Here, an interactive game has been developed especially for children to carve their own ice sculpture. It’s just a pity that you can’t bring this souvenir home, because it will quickly melt...
Address:
5th Luchevoy Prosek, pavilion No. 11
Telephone:
(495) 644-5090
Website:
www.led-sokolniki.ru
12. Space Museum
. By visiting this museum, you find yourself in the real world of space, here there are special interactive simulators, a mini-space observatory, and even the apparatus on which the dogs Belka and Strelka first carried out their space journey. The “journey” in outer space ends in the cinema hall, designed in the form of a starship cabin. From a special film you can learn about the life of astronauts: how they wash, shave, eat, sleep.
Address:
Moscow, Prospekt Mira, 111
Tel:
(495) 683-7968, (495) 682-5760 - for inquiries, (495) 683-1826 - to order excursions
Website:
www.space-museum.ru
13. Cheburashka Museum
. This is a museum that was created on the territory of a kindergarten in the Kozhukhovo district. Here children will learn a lot of interesting things about the life of the cartoon character, and will also play with toys, see a real typewriter of Eduard Uspensky and the real telephone booth in which Cheburashka lived.
You can visit Cheburashka,
by calling in advance at 499-721-69-02 and notifying that you are going to come. The apartment museum is open on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Address:
m. Vykhino, st.
Dmitrievsky, Kindergarten No. 2550 Opening hours
: Mon-Fri 7.00-19.00
Phone
: 8 (499) 721 69 02
14. Museum of Science and Industry
Both adults and children will really like it. Among the museum's collections are: “Sewing machines”, “Radio receivers”, “Light sources”, “Typewriting machines”, “Time devices. Watches”, “Telephone exchanges”, “Motorcycles”, “Cars”, “Camera and accessories”, “Cinema filming equipment”, “Mechanical and magnetic recording and sound reproduction equipment” and many others. Chemical and technical shows are held especially for children, and there is a toy library where children get to know physical phenomena in a playful way, delving deeper into their essence.
Address:
Moscow, Novaya sq., 3/4, entrance 1
Phones:
(495) 625-06-14, - excursion bureau
Website:
www.polymus.ru
15. Museum "Russian felt boots"
- the only one in Moscow where you can learn a lot about such an ordinary subject and realize its full significance. The museum presents a variety of models: from painted ones of the late 19th century to unique designer felt boots of the 21st century. Children are introduced to the Slavic traditions of work and celebration in the museum in a variety of forms. Feeling the sheep's wool with his fingers, feeling the weight of the cast iron in his grip, posing in painted felt boots, the child perceives the Living in the departed. Participation in creative competitions awakens children's interest in national culture. And practicing traditional crafts gives a special joy of creativity and unity.
Address: Moscow, 2nd Kozhevnichesky lane, 12
Tel.:
+7 (495) 77-525-77 (ext. 279)
Museum opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday - from 11.00 to 17.30 Website:
www.gorizont.org/muzey
16. Matryoshka Museum.
The museum features nesting dolls made based on characters from Russian folk tales, chubby-cheeked young ladies faded from age, a pot-bellied figurine in the form of a cat with protruding ears, a portly pig in a uniform and with a sword, and an entire Red Army detachment from the Civil War, hidden inside its commander, Soviet-era factory stamped souvenirs and original works. The largest nesting doll presented at the exhibition contains fifty figures, which is half the world record. And the smallest nesting doll is only a couple of millimeters in height.
Address:
Moscow, Leontievsky per., 7/1
Tel:
(495) 691-96-47, sign up for excursions
Website:
www.fond-narprom.ru
17. Museum of Soviet Slot Machines
, where Soviet-era slot machines are collected: “Sea Battle”, “Racing”, “Horses”, “Silomer”, “Winter Hunt”, “Road Signs”, “Sea Patrol” and many others. The Museum will be most interesting for children aged 12 years and older.
Address:
Moscow, Baumanskaya st., 11
Tel:
(916) 167-19-25,
Website:
www.15kop.ru
18. Father Frost's estate is a place for the whole family to relax.
The manor house is comfortably located in the mansion. In the mansion of Grandfather Frost, fabulous miracles happen: there is a throne that fulfills wishes, and there are workshops.
And the Snow Maiden has a magical sun in her house; it makes her happy, filling the little room with warmth and multi-colored fancy tints. So Santa Claus's post office is located here, where letters arrive from all over the world and from different parts of our great Motherland, and the most important ones are delivered by a carrier pigeon.
Address:
Moscow, Volgogradsky prospect, property 168D
Operating mode:
all year round from 10.00 to 18.00 (ticket office from 10.30 to 17.00) (closed on Monday, Tuesday)
During the New Year period (December 10 - January 10) from 10.00 to 20.00 (ticket office from 10.30 to 19.00) daily (7 days a week)
Changes to the estate's work schedule are possible!
Tel Mail of Santa Claus
(495) 657-60-52 – Department of Culture and Leisure
8 – Santa Claus skating rink
(495) 657-60-53 – Estate cash desk
Website:
http:www.dedmorozmos.ru
Information provided by the website about Holidays with Children - www.kids-tours.ru
Paleontological Museum
Mysterious reptiles that inhabited our planet millions of years ago, and films about them excite children’s minds no less than stories about Harry Potter or Star Wars. In Moscow you can see these fossils even in life size - in the Museum of Paleontology.
A large building, similar to an ancient defensive fortification, is located at the address: st. Profsoyuznaya, 123. The house is clearly visible from a distance, thanks to the brick-red color of the external walls.
The huge internal territory of the museum, covering an area of several square kilometers, accommodates six halls. All halls feature exhibitions of fossils that lived during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. The most popular of them is the fifth in a row, where giant skeletons of extinct animals are presented:
- dinosaur;
- mammoth;
- plesiosaur;
- indricotherium;
- diplodocus and other land and waterfowl monsters.
If we estimate the size of some representatives of these lizards, their height will reach several floors of a standard house.
Zoo museum
Full name: Zoological Museum of Moscow State University. Lomonosov. It has 2 halls, the exhibitions of which are dedicated to the animal world and its representatives.
The main exhibition is presented on the first floor of the museum and is dedicated to invertebrates, fish, reptiles, insects and other species. Most of all, children like the hall with animal skeletons, as well as tanks filled with creepy alcohol solutions. On the second floor of the museum there is a large collection of stuffed animals of different species.
Interactive classes are available for schoolchildren in the zoological museum. If you wish, you can visit the biolecture hall, where students aged 5 years and older are admitted. There they conduct practical classes and give lectures on a variety of topics.
The museum is located at the address: Bolshaya Nikitskaya street, building 2. The museum is open all week from 10:00 to 18:00, except Mondays (closed) and on Thursdays from 13:00 to 21:00. Ticket prices - from 300 rubles. per person, for preferential category of citizens - from 150 rubles.
Transport Museum
It will be interesting, of course, for boys to visit this museum. The automobile museum collection began with a private collection of a Moscow car owner and consisted of about two dozen cars. Interesting retro models of foreign and domestic production are collected in a former factory building on Rogozhsky Val. All exhibits are unique, and among them you can find not only those produced at machine-building plants, but also hand-assembled ones.
In one of the halls there is a car created by a craftsman from the Russian outback about half a century ago. The body of the car is made from an aircraft tank, and a kitchen frying pan is attached instead of a steering wheel.
The daily exhibition displays more than three hundred units of automotive equipment, including:
- discontinued passenger cars and trucks,
- sports cars - winners of various competitions,
- cars associated with memorable dates and events;
- retro bicycles.
In the halls of the museum there are models of all factories that existed during the Soviet and Russian periods. The collection is regularly updated. During walks around the museum, thematic excursions are held that tell about the history of automobile transport.
Darwin Museum
The museum's exhibition reveals the essence of Darwin's theory of evolution. Here the entire diversity of the animal world of our planet is presented, it will explain the origin of man himself, how the entire organic world of the Earth developed.
In the halls of the museum there are showcases with all the diversity of the animal world, divided into themes: inhabitants of the sea, mountains, savannahs, tropics and others. Children will most enjoy the time spent in the interactive. A video exhibition with light and music will tell young viewers about the settlement of animals on planet Earth.
On the ground floor, in addition to exhibits with stuffed animals, there is also a living corner with butterflies and representatives of arthropods. On the third floor, exciting shows are held for children in the planetarium. And older students will be taught how to use a microscope and even isolate real DNA.
And you can see life-size dinosaurs on the Paleopark eco-trail of the green courtyard among rare species of plants, trees, and shrubs.
The Darwin Museum is located at the address: Vavilova Street, building 57. Opening hours: every day, except Mondays (closed). Work starts from 10:00 to 18:00, on Thursdays the schedule is different - from 13:00 to 21:00. Ticket prices - from 400 rubles. For children under 7 years old, visiting the museum is free; for privileged categories of citizens, the price is 150 rubles.
Rise of the Machine Museum
The technological 21st century contributes to the fact that robotization is entering life by leaps and bounds. In the Moscow Museum of Robots on Volgogradsky Prospekt, a real civilization of the future has been created with iron controlled mechanisms and highly intelligent artificial intelligence.
The museum building attracts visitors from the street, as it is built in the shape of a large silver flying saucer. The interiors are made in a bright, colorful design and include one and a half dozen rooms. Children will see “live” characters from their favorite cartoons and feature films about robots and fantastic warriors.
Each child can take part in a master class on making miniature robot figurines, as well as paint their face like an iron alien mask with luminescent paints.
Museum of Living Systems
One of the most popular children's museums in Moscow is one that clearly studies the structure of the human body and dozens of living systems present on our planet. It is located on Butyrskaya Street. The educational tour is conducted in the form of interactive excursions, depending on the age of the little visitor. While walking through the museum, children will be able to find answers to many questions:
- how many liters of water are in the human body;
- how cells work in the body;
- why oxygen is needed;
- how long is the intestine?
- does intelligence depend on brain size, and so on.
The children will learn a lot of interesting things about human anatomy, sensory organs and how the reproductive system of a living creature works, about the evolutionary processes of development of the body. On the excursion you can get acquainted with rare animals and attend master classes on training the respiratory, touch, smell, and digestive systems.
Experimentanium
Fans of robotics, construction and architecture will be interested in visiting the Moscow Museum of Entertaining Sciences, which has existed since 2011 and is located on Leningradsky Prospekt. A large amount of equipment and mechanisms for experiments are collected here, various experiments, shows and master classes are held.
Educational programs are skillfully combined with entertainment shows so that children do not get tired of the influx of technical exclusives. The collection of museum exhibits is multiplying and expanding. On an excursion to the museum, the children will replenish their knowledge in the field of physics and mathematics and expand their horizons. Children and adults will have the opportunity to:
- not only hear, but also see the sound;
- draw with a light beam;
- be captivated by optical illusions;
- go to an interactive water installation.
Fairy Tale House
The interactive museum-theater Skazkin Dom, located in the shopping and entertainment center on Avtozavodskaya Street, will bring joy to every child - children from 1 year of age can take part in theatrical performances. During the fabulous events, the children will have the opportunity to:
- learn Russian folk traditions,
- enrich your knowledge with recipes from centuries-old folk wisdom,
- understand what is “good” and what is “bad”,
- reveal artistic abilities.
It will be interesting for children and adults to take part in their favorite fairy tales about Kolobok and the Three Little Pigs and touch all the objects with their own hands. The museum hosts festive events - graduations, children's birthdays and other celebrations with an interesting and rich program.
Museum of Soviet slot machines
The museum displays the most famous and popular slot machines produced in the USSR. Most of them had to be repaired, restored, and even assembled from several old gaming machines into one whole and working one.
The museum's exposition is presented at two Moscow sites, where a little more than 40 machines are located. The most popular and working machines:
- Avtoralli-M;
- Highway;
- Sea battle;
- Hockey;
- Football;
- Winter hunting;
- Turnip;
- Sniper.
By purchasing a ticket to visit the museum of slot machines from the times of the USSR, visitors also receive coins with a face value of 15 kopecks for completing the game.
Adults will like it here even more than children, where they can have plenty of nostalgia while playing their favorite games and demonstrate all their professionalism to the younger generation. And if you’re tired, buy soda from an old Soviet machine.
You can play the slot machines at the following addresses: Rozhdestvenka Street, building 12 and on Mira Avenue, building 119 (in pavilion 57 of VDNKh). At the first address, the museum is open every day from 11:00 to 21:00. At VDNKh the museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 20:00. Entrance to the museum for adults costs 450 rubles, children under 6 years old can visit for free. For the preferential category of citizens, a ticket costs 350 rubles.
Museum of the History of Chocolate Mishka
A sweet journey into the world of your favorite delicacy awaits you on an excursion to the Museum of the History of Chocolate, created on the basis of products from Soviet factories - Red October and Babaevskaya. The name of the museum, located in the Krasnoselsky district of the capital, was given by the popularly loved candy “Bear Clubfoot”.
There are chocolate museums in other large foreign cities, but the creators of the Russian Mishka focused on studying the history and development of the domestic confectionery industry.
In the very center of the museum there is a figure of a large chocolate Bear, which was created almost forty years ago as a prototype of the bear of the Moscow Olympics-80. The bear weighs almost 100 kilograms and is regularly updated with fresh chocolate.
On an excursion to the Chocolate Museum you:
- learn the entire centuries-old history of the delicacy;
- you will see a real cocoa tree;
- get acquainted with the culture of the Mayan tribe, which was the first to master the drink made from cocoa beans;
- follow the path of chocolate through Europe;
- learn numerous recipes for chocolate sweets;
- You will see the packaging and wrapping options used in past centuries.
And to consolidate their knowledge, children and adults will be shown films about the history of chocolate and treated to delicious pieces of various varieties straight from the assembly line.
Planetarium
The Moscow Planetarium has respectable age and is one of the oldest similar institutions in the world. The planetarium is located in the very center of Moscow, on Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Street, in close proximity to the capital's zoo. You and your children will discover the amazing star world, mysterious planets and cosmic phenomena. Here you can:
- see the oldest astronomical instruments and telescopes,
- see and touch exhibits and trophies from extraterrestrial spaces,
- take part in space experiments at the Lunarium interactive museum,
- watch a themed film in 4D format,
- explore the celestial space on a huge panoramic screen.
Moscow Planetarium
A favorite place not only for children, but also for adults. A visit to the planetarium will be a discovery for every inquisitive child. The museum has Big and Small star halls, where documentaries about space are shown on dome screens.
In addition to the domed halls, the museum also hosts other exhibitions on various topics:
- Lunarium is an introductory exhibition that will tell you about the basics of physics and astronomy, how scientists comprehended space;
- Urania - in the hall there is equipment with which space was studied at different times;
- the hall and the Great Observatory - various children's educational events are held here and they will introduce you to the operation of the telescope;
- Sky Park - an exhibition of ancient and new instruments for space exploration;
- in other rooms you can see models of the solar system, globes of all its planets, a collection of real meteorites and more.
At the planetarium, the Theater of Fascinating Science hosts various children's programs and quests that are suitable not only for children, but also for adults. According to the tasks, you need to find the planets that are best suited for populating it with people from the intergalactic station.
The Moscow Planetarium is located at: Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya street, building 5, building 1. The museum is open daily from 10:00 to 21:00, except Tuesdays (closed).
Fun
The Zabavushka Museum of Russian Toys is located in the east of the capital and has existed for 20 years. Here are exhibits of Russian folk crafts created over the centuries: dolls, animal figurines, nesting dolls, whistles and other relics. Museum toys are made from natural materials: wood, straw, clay, birch bark, fabric.
The exhibition presents products from the largest Russian factories for the production of folk art objects - Dymkovo, Torzhkov, Sergiev Posad and others. In total, the exhibition includes more than two thousand exhibits.
The museum hosts master classes for children on making rag dolls, as well as tea parties with delicious pies prepared according to ancient recipes.
There are many other interesting museums in Moscow: cuckoo clocks, animation, falconry. While traveling around the Russian capital, you have the opportunity to fill your children's leisure time with interesting knowledge and usefully spend your free time and holidays.
Railway Museum
The Museum of Moscow Railway Technology is located in the Paveletsky Station building. The main exhibit of the museum's exhibition is the funeral train U 127. Here you can clearly see a 19th-century compartment, what the railway station manager's office looked like. The exhibition also contains many real documents, reports, photos, models of train stations and railway roads.
Life-size exhibits are also located in the Museum of Railway Equipment of the Riga Station. There are carriages and trains of different generations here - from the oldest to the modern. Visitors can visit each of the exhibits in person, which are located right on the railway tracks.
Current museum opening hours can be found on the official website. Ticket prices for adults - 180 rubles, for children - from 70 rubles.
