The Polytechnical Museum

The museum was established in 1872 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Peter I, who launched the era of industrialization, due to the initiative of the Society of Natural Sciences, Anthropology and Ethnography.

The museum has a huge permanent exposition embracing the most important achievements in modern technology from the first Yablochkov electric light bulb to computer technology. A.Voznesensky, B.Akhmadulina, R.Rozhdestvensky, E.Evtushenko read their poetry there in the time of the Khrushchev "thaw", and the concert halls were always crowded with admirers. Today the Polytechnical Museum is the largest technical museum in Russia with over 160 thousand items and about 150 collections in various areas of technique and science.

Note the building with columns and a dome on the opposite side of the square. This is the Church of St. John the Apostle under the Elm built in 1825 in the place of an ancient church which first appeared in the chronicles in the 15th century. Since 1896, the Museum of Moscow's History has occupied the building.
There is a peculiar monument in the public park close to Lubyanskaya Square. It is a huge stone brought from the Solovetskiye Isles that symbolizes national repentance.



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