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The Polytechnical Museum (Russian: Политехнический музей) (New Square, 3/4 Moscow, Russia)is one of the oldest science and technology museums in the world. The museum was established with the funds from the Polytechnical Exhibition of 1872 on the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great. It was the work of a society of amateurs in natural science, anthropology and ethnography, with the active participation of professors from Moscow State University G. Y. Schurovskoy, A.P. Boldanavim and others.

The Museum building became possible because of the isolation of the Moscow City Hall in 1871, 500 rubles and the transfer of the necessary land on Lubyanka Square. The museum opened in 1872 in a temporary building on Prechistenka Street.

In 1877 the architect Ippolit Monighetti finished the center section of the building and the building continued for thirty years until the right wing was finished in 1896.

Today the Polytechnic Museum is the largest technical museum in Russia, storing more than 160 thousand museum objects, and about 150 museum collections from different fields of technology and scientific knowledge. The museum exhibitions tell about the history of technology and its creators, explaining the operating principles of different technical devices. Within the complex of the Polytechnic Museum is the Central Polytechnic Library with more than 3 million books and printed publications.

Contact information

 * Telephone: 623-07-56; 623-42-87.
 * Hours of operation: from 10.00 to 18.00 (Box office — until 17.00).
 * Closed Mondays and the last Friday of the month.
 * Metro Stations — Kitay-Gorod and Lubyanka.