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Children Venues / Museums
Alexander Pushkin Museum
Address:  Prechistenka ul., 12/2
Metro:  Kropotkinskaya
Tel:  637-5674
Web:  www.pushkinmuseum.ru
Open: 10:00-18:00
Closed: Mon, the last Fri of each month.
All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts
Address:  Delegatskaya ul., 3
Metro:  Novoslobodskaya
Tel:  609-0165, 609-0146 (excursions)
Web:  www.vmdpni.ru
Woodworks, old Russian costumes,
headdresses, samovars, ivory, bronze,
malachite and lacquer miniature, porcelain,
glassware (18th-20th centuries).
Excursions in English are available.
Open: Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sun 10:00-18:00.
Sat 11:00-19:00.
Closed: Tue, the last Mon of each month.
Armoury Chamber
Address:  Moscow Kremlin
Metro:  Aleksandrovsky Sad
Tel:  697-0349 (excursions), 695-3776 (info)
Web: kreml.ru
Collection of gold and silverware,
ceremonial weapons and arms,
carriages, horse ceremonial harness.
Sessions: 10:00, 12:00, 14:30, 16:30.
Bakhrushin Theatre Museum
Address:  Bakhrushina ul., 31/12
Metro:  Paveletskaya
Tel:  953-4470
E-mail:  gctm@gctm.ru
Web:  gctm.ru
About 1,5 million items on theatre history.
Open: 12:00-19:00
Closed: Tue, the last Mon of each month.
Buratino-Pinocchio
Address:  2nd Parkovaya ul., 18
Metro:  Izmailovskaya
Tel:  8 499 164-0576
Web:  www.domskazok.ru/wood-tale
Dolls, books, theatre shows (Russian).
Take extra shoes.
By advance appointment only.
Open: 10:00-17:00.
Car Museum
Address:  Zarechiye ul., 3a
Metro:  Lublino
Tel:  372-2718
E-mail:  museum@autoreview.ru
Web:  museum.autoreview.ru
Russian and foreign historic cars.
Motorcycles, crush-test items.
Chocolate and Cacao Museum
Address:  Lobachika ul., 1
Metro:  Krasnoselskaya
Tel:  982-5797
Web: www.uniconf.ru
Excursions (15 people) only.
Advance appointment.
Open: Mon-Sat 09:30-18:30.
Closed: Sun.
Cosmonautics Museum
Address:  Prospekt Mire, 111
Metro:  VDNKh
Tel:  602-2073
Open: 11:00-19:00.
Closed: Mon, Tue.
Darwin Museum
Address:  Vavilova ul., 57
Metro:  Akademicheskaya
Tel:  8 499 783-2253, 8 499 132-1047 (excursions)
Fax:  8 499 783-2254
E-mail:  info@darwin.museum.ru
Web:  www.darwin.museum.ru
Open: 10:00-18:00.
Closed: Mon, the last Fri of each month.
Furniture Museum
Address:  Taganskaya ul., 13, str. 3
Metro:  Marksistskaya
Tel:  912-5170
E-mail:  muzmeb@mail.ru
Web:  www.muzmeb.ru
Furniture items (17th-20th centuries).
Open: 11:00-18:00, Sun 11:00-17:00.
Closed: Mon.
Glinka State Museum of Musical Culture
Address:  Fadeeva ul., 4
Metro:  Mayakovskaya
Tel:  739-6226 (info), 739-6226 # 131 (excursions)
Web:  www.glinka.museum
About 1 million items.
Musical instruments of different nations,
documents, records, rare books and scores.
Manuscripts by famous musicians.
Open: 10:00-19:00.
Closed: Mon, the last day of each month.
Free admission - the last Wed of each month.
Historical Museum
Address:  Krasnya Ploshad (Red Square), 1/2
Metro:  Ploschyad Revolyutsii
Tel:  692-4019 (info), 692-3731 (excursions)
Web:  www.shm.ru
Open: 10:00-18:00.
Closed: Tue, the last Mon of each month.
House of Dolls
Address:  Varvarka ul., 14
Metro:  Kitai-Gorod
Tel:  698-1105
Web:  kukolniydom.googlepages.com
Dolls and puppets exhibited
in doll houses.
Cafe, bar. Take extra shoes.
Open: Tue, Fri 11:00-18:00,
Sat 12:00-17:00.
Matryoshka Museum
Address:  Leontievsky per., 7
Metro:  Pushkinskaya
Tel:  695-7556
Web:  www.fond-narprom.ru/3
Open: Mon-Thu 10:00-18:00, Fri 10:00-17:00.
Closed: Sat, Sun.
Mosfilm Museum
Address:  Mosfilmovskaya ul.,1
Metro:  Kievskaya
Tel:  8 499 143-9599
E-mail:  excursion@mosfilm.ru
Web:  eng.mosfilm.ru/fan
By advance appointment.
Open: Mon-Fri 09:00-17:30.
Museum "Moscow Lights"
Address:  Armyansky per., 3-5, str. 1
Metro:  Lubyanka
Tel:  624-7374
Web:  moscowlights.ru
All kinds of lamps, street lamps, lanterns.
Excursions in English are available.
Open: (excursions) 09:00-19:00,
(individual visitors) 11:00-17:00.
Museum of Cold War
Address:  5th Kotelnichesky per., 11
Metro:  Taganskaya
Tel:  500-0554
Web:  zkp42.ru
Tours along ex-Top Secret Soviet bunker.
Excursions by appointment only.
Open: 24/7.
Museum of Contemporary History of Russia
Address:  Tverskaya ul., 21
Metro:  Pushkinskaya
Tel:  699-6724
Web:  www.sovr.ru
Open: Tue-Fri 10:00-18:00,
Tue, Sat 11:00-19:00,
Sun 10:00-17:00.
Closed: Mon, the last Fri of each month.
Museum of Oriental Arts
Address:  Nikitsky bulv., 12a
Metro:  Arbatskaya
Tel:  691-0212, 691-8219 (excursions)
E-mail:  info@eastmuseum.ru
Web:  www.orientmuseum.ru
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Irani, Caucasian, Siberian art.
Pictures by Nikolai and Svyatoslav Rerikh.
Open: 11:00-20:00.
Closed: Mon.
Museum of Russian Chocolate History
Address:  1aya Brestskaya ul., 2/3
Metro:  Mayakovskaya
Tel:  +7 (495) 233-8212 (in Russian), +7 968 8978878
E-mail:  contact@chocoandcacao.ru
Web:  www.chocoandcacao.ru
A fascinating journey into the World and Russian history of chocolate. A chocolate shop and a chocolate studio are located near the entrance to the museum. The standard admission tickets include four tastings, visitors can also mold their own chocolate. Kids love it (and parents too!). Guided tours in English, French and Russian are available. Open: Tue-Sun 11:00–19:00. Closed: Mon.
Museum of Unique Dolls
Address:  Pokrovka ul., 13, str. 2
Metro:  Kitai-Gorod
Tel:  625-6405
Web:  www.dollmuseum.ru
Antique dolls (17th-early 20th century).
Open: 10:00-18:00 with a break 14:00-14:30.
On Tue excursions only.
Closed: Mon.
Museum-Theatre "Ice Age"
Address:  Prospekt Mire, 119, VVTs, pavilion 71
Metro:  VDNKh
Tel:  8 499 929-0913
E-mail:  mammoth@iceage.ru
Web:  www.iceage.ru
Mammoth fauna presented in a simple
show-like, evocative way with special
audiovisual effects.
Touching is allowed.
Open: (winter) Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00,
Sat-Sun 10:0-19:00;
(summer) Mon-Fri 10:00-19:00,
Sat-Sun 10:00-20:00.
Closed: Mon.
Ostankinskaya TV Tower
Address:  Akademika Koroleva ul., 15, korp. 2
Metro:  VDNKh
Tel:  926-6171
Web:  www.tvtower.ru
Observation deck - 337 meter.
Excursion (Russian only).
Advance appointment on the website.
Open: 10:00-19:00.
Closed: Mon.
Ostrovsky State Museum
Address:  Tverskaya ul., 14
Metro:  Pushkinskaya
Tel:  +7 (495) 629-8552
E-mail:  preod@mail.ru
Web:  http://museumpreod.ru/index.html
Palaeontology Museum
Address:  Profsoyuznaya ul., 123
Metro:  Tyoply Stan
Tel:  339-1500
Web:  www.paleo.ru
Open: Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00.
Closed: Mon, Tue.
Polytechnical Museum
Address:  Novaya pl., 3/4, podiezd 1
Metro:  Kitai-Gorod
Tel:  625-0614, 623-4287 (excursions)
E-mail:  info@polymus.ru
Web:  www.polymus.ru
The largest scientific and technical
museums in the world.
More than 170,000 exhibits,
about 100 collections, 65 halls.
Open: Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
Closed: Mon and the last Fri of each month.
Public Museum of Moscow Metro
Address:  Khamovnichesky Val ul., 36
1st and 2nd floors of Sportivnaya south vestibule
Metro:  Sportivnaya
Tel:  622-7309 (info), 622-7833
Web: engl.mosmetro.ru
Excursions by advance appointment.
Open: Mon 11:00-18:00, Tue-Fri 09:00-16:00.
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum
Address:  Volkhonka ul., 12
Metro:  Kropotkinskaya
Tel:  697-7998 (answering machine), 697-9578
E-mail:  finearts@gmii.museum.ru
Web:  www.museum.ru/gmii
Open: 10:00-19:00, Thu 10:00-21:00.
Closed: Mon.
Railway Museum
Address:  Rizhsky Railway Station
Metro:  Rizhskaya
Tel:  266-8208 (tickets), 266-8221 (excursions)
Trains of different years and purposes.
Open: 11:00-16:00.
Closed: Mon, Tue.
Red October Gallery
Address:  Bersenevsky per., 2/1
Metro:  Kropotkinskaya
Tel:  +7 (495) 644-0143
Russian Costume Museum
Address:  Izmailovskoye sh., 73zh
Kremlin in Izmailovo
Metro:  Partizanskaya
Tel:  8 499 166-5029
Web: www.kremlin-izmailovo.com
Excursions in English are available.
Open: 09:00-21:00.
Russian Museum of Wood
Address:  5th Monetchikovsky per., 4
Metro:  Paveletskaya
Tel:  959-1517
Web:  museum.forest.ru
Open: Wed-Thu 11:00-19:00,
Fri-Sun 10:00-18:00.
Soyuzmultfilm Museum
Address:  Dolgorukovskaya ul., 25
Metro:  Novoslobodskaya
Tel:  250-4406, 8 499 978-0397
Web:  www.smfanima.ru
Open: 09:00-18:00.
Submarine Museum
Address:  Svobody ul., 44-48
Park "Severnoe Tushino"
Metro:  Skhodnenskaya
Tel:  8 499 729-6602
Large diesel tango-class submarine B-393
turned into a museum.
Excursions only (7-14 people).
Advance appointment.
Open: Wed-Sun 10:00-17:00.
Closed: Mon, Tue.
Zabavushka Museum of Folk Toys
Address:  Sumskoy proezd, 6a
Metro:  Chertanovskaya
Tel:  316-3902, 748-8319
E-mail:  zabawushka@mail.ru
Web:  www.zabawushka.ru
Excursions only (up to 20 people).
Advance appointment.
Open: 09:00-17:00.
Experimentanium
Address:  Butyrskaya ul., 46/2
Metro:  Dmitrovskaya
Tel:  789-3658
E-mail:  enjoy@experimentanium.ru
Web:  www.experimentanium.ru
Open: Mo-Fr: 09:30–19:00
Sat-Sun, holidays: 10:00-20:00
Moscow Museum
Address:  Zubovskiy bulv., 2
Metro:  Park Kultury
Tel:  +7 (495) 739-0008
Web:  http://mosmuseum.ru
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Address:  Petrovka ul., 25
Metro:  Chekhovskaya
Tel:  694-2890
E-mail:  info@mmoma.ru
Web:  www.mmoma.ru
Open: 12:00-20:00, Thu 13:00-21:00.
Box office: 12:00-19:15.
Closed: the last Mon of each month.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Gogolevsky Bulvar
Address:  Gogolevsky bulv., 10
Metro:  Kropotkinskaya
Tel:  694-2890
E-mail:  info@mmoma.ru
Web:  www.mmoma.ru
Open: 12:00-20:00, Thu 13:00-21:00.
Box office: 12:00-19:15.
Closed: the last Mon of each month.
Spiridonova House
Address:  Maly Gnezdnikovsky per., 9/8, str. 1
Metro:  Tverskaya
Tel:  629-5984
Timiryazev Biological Museum
Address:  Malaya Gruzinskaya ul., 15
Metro:  Krasnopresnenskaya
Tel:  8 499 252-3681
E-mail:  gbmt@gbmt.ru
Web:  www.gbmt.ru
Open: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00,
Wed 12:00-20:00, Sat 11:00-18:00.
Closed: Mon, the last Tue of each month.
Vernadsky Earth History Museum
Address:  Mokhovaya ul., 11, str. 2
Metro:  Okhotny Ryad
Tel:  692-0943
Web:  www.sgm.ru
Open: Tue, Thu, Sat 11:00-17:00.
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