Museum of Cosmonautics Moskva, Russia

The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (also known as the Memorial Museum of Astronautics or Memorial Museum of Space Exploration) is a museum in Moscow, Russia, dedicated to space exploration. It is located within the base of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in the north-east of the city. The museum contains a wide variety of Soviet and Russian space-related exhibits and models which explore the history of flight; astronomy; space exploration; space technology; and space in the arts. According to the Russian tourist board, the museum's collection holds approximately 85,000 different items, primarily from the Soviet period, and receives approximately 300,000 visitors yearly.

Museum of Cosmonautics is located in the basement part of the monument "To the Conquerors of Space" - a unique monument in Moscow. Erected in honor of the launch of the first artificial satellite by architects MO Barshch, AN Kolchin and sculptor AP Faydysh Krandiyevsky and open-November 4, 1964.

The idea of ​​creating a museum owned by chief designer of space rocket systems SP Queen. The museum was inaugurated on April 10, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the space flight YA Gagarin. The museum carefully preserved samples of space technology, personal belongings figures space industry, archival documents, film and photographs, numismatics, philately, and philocarty faleristics, works of fine and decorative arts.
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