Novaya Square 3/4  

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Amphitheatre in front of the Polytechnic Museum. Photo stands. Stand with a qr-code on it
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Историческая справка

It is planned that the Polytechnical Museum will be reopened on December 12, 2020. The opening date was not chosen by chance. On December 12, 2020 the Museum of Applied Knowledge (as Polytech was called then) began its work at Prechistenka Street 7, in the club of Moscow yachtsmen. The basis of its collection was formed from the exhibits of the first All-Russian Technical Exhibition on the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great.

In 1877, the Museum acquired its own newly-constructed building in Novaya Square, which was completed only 30 years later when the Museum already became a cultural centre of Moscow. The construction was finished in 1907, introducing the Museum’s Big Lecture Hall which enabled public demonstrations of scientific experiments, as well as lectures, debates, literary evenings, conferences. Niels Bohr, Élie Metchnikoff, Kliment Timiryazev, Alexander Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bulat Okudzhava and many other prominent figures of science and culture gave their speeches and lectures there.

In 1936, during the renovation of the museum basements, there was found a memorial plaque laid in the foundation of the building in honor of the beginning of construction. Now it is kept in the Polytech collection. The renovation of 1936 was caused by a lack of exhibition spaces and was carried out by the museum staff. It was planned to open the mechanical engineering exposition there. Unfortunately, the Moscow City Executive Committee decided otherwise, announcing the creation of a public toilet in the basements of the Polytechnic Museum.

In 2013, the Polytechnic Museum was closed for immense renovation. Fortunately, this time the historical building of the museum is treated more carefully.

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