Interesting museums in Moscow for teenagers

Today, many museums are not just an exhibition of exhibits that need to be viewed and studied for hours. Modern technologies make it possible to turn a visit to the museum into a real interactive holiday, which attracts not only adults, but also children.

In Moscow, in recent years, many specialized children's museums have been created, in which educational programs are successfully combined with entertainment, and various shows, master classes and performances are held. To get to the most popular museums without queues, purchase museum excursions in Moscow on our website.

Space Museum

Which child did not dream of becoming an astronaut when the first flights to the stars began? The generation of dreamers has long grown up, but their children and grandchildren will also be interested in learning about the pioneers of the Universe, galactic systems, distant planets and everything related to outer space.

You will be told in detail about the history of space at the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics, which opened in the 80s. last century in the stylobate of a memorial monument near the VDNKh metro station. Not long ago, the building was reconstructed, restored and new exhibitions were opened.

The room is decorated in the shape of a large spaceship. On an excursion to the museum, children will be interested in seeing the descent vehicles and the first artificial satellite of the Earth, and learning the history of the legendary dogs that conquered the heavens - Belka and Strelka.

• In the cinema hall you will be shown an interesting film about the everyday life of astronauts in zero gravity.
• Interactive simulators will allow you to control the spacecraft as in a real flight.
• The museum even has a miniature Mission Control Center, from where you can truly establish communication with the interplanetary station and the astronauts working on it.
• There is a special educational program for the little ones.

Paleontological Museum

Mysterious reptiles that inhabited our planet millions of years ago, and films about them excite children’s minds no less than stories about Harry Potter or Star Wars. In Moscow you can see these fossils even in life size - in the Museum of Paleontology.

A large building, similar to an ancient defensive fortification, is located at the address: st. Profsoyuznaya, 123. The house is clearly visible from a distance, thanks to the brick-red color of the external walls.

The huge internal territory of the museum, covering an area of ​​several square kilometers, accommodates six halls. All halls feature exhibitions of fossils that lived during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. The most popular of them is the fifth in a row, where giant skeletons of extinct animals are presented:

• dinosaur;
• mammoth;
• plesiosaur;
• indricotherium;
• diplodocus and other land and waterfowl monsters.

If we estimate the size of some representatives of these lizards, their height will reach several floors of a standard house.

Transport Museum

It will be interesting, of course, for boys to visit this museum. The automobile museum collection began with a private collection of a Moscow car owner and consisted of about two dozen cars. Interesting retro models of foreign and domestic production are collected in a former factory building on Rogozhsky Val. All exhibits are unique, and among them you can find not only those produced at machine-building plants, but also hand-assembled ones.

In one of the halls there is a car created by a craftsman from the Russian outback about half a century ago. The body of the car is made from an aircraft tank, and a kitchen frying pan is attached instead of a steering wheel.

The daily exhibition displays more than three hundred units of automotive equipment, including:

• discontinued passenger cars and trucks,
• sports cars - winners of various competitions,
• cars associated with memorable dates and events;
• retro bicycles.

In the halls of the museum there are models of all factories that existed during the Soviet and Russian periods. The collection is regularly updated. During walks around the museum, thematic excursions are held that tell about the history of automobile transport.

Adventure Museum "Living History", 0+

Address: metro Park Kultury (Branches: metro Kurskaya, metro Sportivnaya, metro Elektrozavodskaya) st. Zemlyanoy Val, 27, building 3. + https://zhivayaistoriya.ru

This interactive history museum has several themed branches throughout the city. In one of them you can find yourself in a knight’s castle and try on Ivanhoe’s armor, in the other you can learn to write on birch bark, like children in Ancient Rus'. The museum conducts excursions, master classes for children of school age and younger, off-site events and birthday parties.

Rise of the Machine Museum

The technological 21st century contributes to the fact that robotization is entering life by leaps and bounds. In the Moscow Museum of Robots on Volgogradsky Prospekt, a real civilization of the future has been created with iron controlled mechanisms and highly intelligent artificial intelligence.

The museum building attracts visitors from the street, as it is built in the shape of a large silver flying saucer. The interiors are made in a bright, colorful design and include one and a half dozen rooms. Children will see “live” characters from their favorite cartoons and feature films about robots and fantastic warriors.

Each child can take part in a master class on making miniature robot figurines, as well as paint their face like an iron alien mask with luminescent paints.

Entertainment museums

In order for information to be better absorbed, it must be presented in a playful form. Regularly take your child to children's museums in Moscow, where he can not only examine, but also touch the exhibits. For example, at an exhibition of illusions, a child will see what a heart and lungs look like. In the Experimentanium, the laws of physics and chemistry will be clearly explained to him. A child who loves cartoons will be interested in the animation museum.

BIG CREATIVE on Arbat

If you want to take pictures with dinosaurs, warm up by the fire with Pikachu, visit the inside of a stomach, or touch the heart, go to the Museum of Optical Illusions. Artists hand-painted the walls with 3-D paintings. The exhibition is located at several addresses. These are 12 attractions, and not only drawings.

In one of the rooms there is a petting zoo, where parrots, a raccoon, and a nose live. Animals roam without cages or bars. The mirror labyrinth will make you laugh, and the rope labyrinth will make it interesting to look for a way out. The horror room stimulates the release of adrenaline, making the prison escape memorable for a long time.

General information:

• Address : Maly Nikolopeskovsky lane, 4, tel.; Moscow, VDNKh, Prospekt Mira, 119, pavilion 55, tel.; st. Novy Arbat, 24, tel. 8 (800) 600-58-08.
• Price for 1 room : 350–450 rub. If you buy an “All Inclusive” ticket, visiting all attractions will cost 1.5 thousand rubles. (price for one - 136 rubles). The ticket is valid for a year, you can visit once.
• Free entry : up to 5 years (must provide documents).
• Working hours at VDNKh : from 10 to 21, on holidays and weekends until 22.
• Working hours on Nikolopeskovsky Lane : from 11:30 to 23:00.
• Working hours on Novy Arbat : from 12 to 00.
• Day off : no.

Advantages:

• The photos turn out realistic.
• You have to pay separately to visit each attraction, so you can choose where to go.
• The staff tells you how to take interesting photos.
• Next to each exhibit there is a sample that shows which pose is best for shooting.

Flaws:

• Children under 6 years old are not allowed to escape from prison.
• Some installations are very worn and look aged.
• No discounts after 5 years.

Museum of Entertaining Sciences Experimentanium

This is a visual textbook on physics. Here you can touch everything, climb, make noise, twist, disassemble and reassemble. You can even stick your head into a special device and shout - it measures the strength of your voice. The vestibular system is tested in the inclined room. The puzzle area will make parents think too.

The museum is divided into halls - magnetic, optics, water, space, etc. There are only 3 floors of incredible experiments. You can hang around each stand for 30 minutes, so you need to set aside several hours or even a day to visit the exhibition. First, it is better to book a sightseeing tour - the guide will explain what and how it works. Then you can view the exhibition yourself.

General information:

• Address : Leningradsky Prospekt, 80, building 11, near Sokol metro station.
• Tel..
• Ticket price : from 14 to 16 years old – 450 (weekdays), 550 (weekends), adults – 550/650. Family ticket (2 adults + 2 children) – 1750/150. When purchasing tickets on the website, you will receive a discount (payment by card).
• Ticket to a show or master class : 300 rub.
• Spherical cinema : 250 rub.
• Free entry : up to 4 years old.
• Working hours : from 9.30 to 19 (weekdays); from 10 to 20 (on holidays and weekends). The ticket office closes one hour before closing.
• Weekends : no.

Advantages:

• Interesting excursions and processes are explained in simple, accessible language.
• Easy to get to.
• They conduct master classes and scientific shows on weekends and holidays.
• Interesting educational programs (paid).
• Spherical cinema.

Flaws:

• Not everything is in working order.
• After the water gym, the children are wet - you need to take things to change clothes.
• Noisy.
• Tickets for science shows must be purchased separately.
• The bubble room is under reconstruction.
• The number of tickets for shows and master classes is limited - it is better to buy on the website.

Museum of Animation

If a child wants to meet cartoon characters or create their own cartoon, go to the Izmailovo Kremlin. The animation museum is located on the 5th floor of the building. Here you can learn about the development of the industry. The exposition is small, so it’s better to explore with a guide and book a master class on creating a cartoon. If you couldn’t get a guide, a sign under the exhibits tells how this or that film was made.

For birthdays, New Years, and graduations, you can order an entertainment program, which takes place in a separate studio. This is a master class on creating a cartoon, watching the premiere film in the studio, a buffet reception, and a disco. At the end, children receive gifts. On New Year's Day they give you a diploma and a disk with the computer program “Your Own Animator.” For other holidays - the ABC of Animation magazine. The action takes 2.5 hours. According to user reviews, this is not enough.

General information:

• Address : Izmailovskoye Shosse, 73zh. There used to be a department at VDNKh, but now it is under reconstruction.
• Tel.; 940-69-80.
• Entrance ticket : 150 rub.
• Full excursion price: children – 500 rubles, adults – 250 rubles. The economy option will cost 300 rubles for children, 250 rubles for adults.
• The price for the holiday is 1.5 thousand per person.
• Working hours : Tuesday - Friday from 110 to 18, Saturday, Sunday from 11 to 19.
• Closed : Monday.

Advantages:

• There are interesting and funny exhibits.
• There are televisions throughout the territory, where cartoons are constantly broadcast.
• You can order a visiting program.
• If you take the full version of the excursion, you will be given an educational disc.

Flaws:

• Excursions and master classes must be booked in advance; they cannot be booked on site.
• Not all exhibits can be touched with your hands.
• Small room - 3 rooms.
• The toilets do not have latches.
• You must not be late for the excursion. The time will be reduced, and after half an hour it will be canceled altogether.

Museum of Living Systems

One of the most popular children's museums in Moscow is one that clearly studies the structure of the human body and dozens of living systems present on our planet. It is located on Butyrskaya Street. The educational tour is conducted in the form of interactive excursions, depending on the age of the little visitor. While walking through the museum, children will be able to find answers to many questions:

• how many liters of water are in the human body;
• how cells work in the body;
• why oxygen is needed;
• how long is the intestine?
• does intelligence depend on brain size, and so on.

The children will learn a lot of interesting things about human anatomy, sensory organs and how the reproductive system of a living creature works, about the evolutionary processes of development of the body. On the excursion you can get acquainted with rare animals and attend master classes on training the respiratory, touch, smell, and digestive systems.

Interactive Museum of Man “Living Systems”, 0+

Address: metro station Savelovskaya, Butyrskaya st., 46 +7 https://bioexperimentanium.ru

You can find out what the living organisms of our planet are made of and how they exist, starting with the slipper ciliates and ending with the crown of evolution - man, by visiting this unique multimedia space. After an exciting excursion, schoolchildren will certainly fall in love with biology, and preschoolers will be interested in learning many amazing facts, for example, calculating their own weight in... mice.

Experimentanium

Fans of robotics, construction and architecture will be interested in visiting the Moscow Museum of Entertaining Sciences, which has existed since 2011 and is located on Leningradsky Prospekt. A large amount of equipment and mechanisms for experiments are collected here, various experiments, shows and master classes are held.

Educational programs are skillfully combined with entertainment shows so that children do not get tired of the influx of technical exclusives. The collection of museum exhibits is multiplying and expanding. On an excursion to the museum, the children will replenish their knowledge in the field of physics and mathematics and expand their horizons. Children and adults will have the opportunity to:

• not only hear, but also see the sound;
• draw with a light beam;
• be captivated by optical illusions;
• go to an interactive water installation.

Multimedia amusement park “Alice. Return to Wonderland" Lubyanka metro station From 5 years

"Alice. Return to Wonderland is a multimedia adventure that combines your favorite fairy tale with interactive projections and augmented reality technologies. In the park you can do whatever comes to your mind: break teapots with hedgehogs, run on buttons and draw with giant pencils - in general, perform miracles. The Wonderland space comes to life as guests complete Alice's incredible tasks. The park has 650 square meters of multimedia entertainment, 42 million pixels of colorful projections and 9 interactive zones connected by one plot.

at the Darwin Museum metro Akademicheskaya From 5 years

On the ground floor of the Darwin Museum there is an interactive educational center with an area of ​​200 sq.m. The entire Universe is concentrated here - from the smallest microorganisms to objects on a planetary scale. With the help of the latest technologies, you can see the world from a bird's eye view or through the eyes of a little mouse, hear the heartbeat of a hummingbird and the beat of your own heart. The center is designed for self-guided excursions: interactive exhibits, interesting tasks and games make it possible to do without the need for a guide. The exhibition is located on several levels, so a walk through the center will be interesting for adults, children, and people with disabilities.

Museum of Automotive Stories m. Voikovskaya From 3 years old

The Museum of Automotive Stories is a very cozy atmospheric place where children and parents can see toy pedal cars of the Soviet era: the famous Moskvich-3, the children's scooter "Kroshka", the rare car "Or", the "adult" Opel P4 from the 30s of the past century, which became the ancestor for entire generations of cars, both real and toy. For children under 7 years old there is an Auto Town with traffic lights and road signs for a test drive of a pedal retro car. Here children can ride pedal cars. The museum hosts free creative workshops on Saturdays. There is a unique master class - printing a scale model of the Legendary Pedal Car on a 3D printer. Free photography is a bonus. The museum also hosts a photo exhibition “The World Through the Eyes of a Soviet Man” with works by classics of Soviet photojournalism. So a trip to this museum is a real interactive excursion into the world of Soviet reality, an opportunity to feel nostalgic. Interactive museum "Lunarium" Barrikadnaya metro stationOver 5 years

The Lunarium Museum is located in the Moscow Planetaty and occupies two floors. You can spend a whole day among the 80 exhibits in the Astronomy and Physics and Space Exploration sections. Each exhibit is a separate laboratory with which you can interact. Visitors get acquainted with the nature of many phenomena and physical laws: you can create clouds and tornadoes yourself or look at a black hole up close, ride a space bike and find out your weight on other planets, make an interplanetary voyage, make observations in telescopes of different optical systems, save the planet from asteroids, send a message to aliens, launch air and hydrogen rockets, learn the properties of weightlessness and vacuum.

Museum of Soviet slot machines in Moscow metro station Kuznetsky Most From 5 years

A cool museum to connect generations. The collection of working slot machines produced in the USSR since the 1970s includes “Battleship”, “Sniper”, “Magistral”, “Gorodki”, “Safari” and many others (about 60 copies). The exhibition is completely interactive: you can play everything by putting a 15-kopeck Soviet coin into the coin acceptor, listen to a tour and refresh yourself with a Soviet soda or milkshake.

Polytechnic Museum at VDNKh metro station VDNKh From 5 years

The exhibition “Russia Makes Itself” presents discoveries made by Russian inventors and scientists over the years. It consists of seven thematic blocks: “Core Energy” about projects to use nuclear energy and the dire consequences of nuclear war; “Plasma Energy” is about how people “tamed” lightning; “Radio +” – about electromagnetic waves; “Illusions” about holograms indistinguishable from real objects; “Analogs of Nature” is about what ideas scientists borrowed from nature, and “New Anthropogenesis” is about precise mathematical calculations and the first robots. “Beyond Earth” is about space flight.

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center metro station Maryina Roshcha From 7 years old

The museum's exposition tells the story of the history of Russia from the reign of Catherine II to the present day, using the example of the culture and life of the Jewish people. 12 thematic pavilions are equipped with panoramic cinemas, interactive screens, and audiovisual installations. On excursions, schoolchildren are introduced to the history of the Jewish people in an interactive format: children will find themselves in an ancient Jewish town with its squat houses, market, synagogue and school; will take part in the ritual of celebrating the Sabbath in a Jewish family and will see a multisensory 4D film about the creation of the world. You can also take part in a quest, during which the secrets of the most unusual artifacts of the museum collection will be revealed.

Robot station at VDNKh metro station VDNKh From 4 years

The robot station is an edutainment space for the whole family. At the Robot Station you can watch the huge robotic dog Sirius, who reaches speeds of up to 40 km/h, gives his robotic paw and emits “thunder-barks”, “cosmic bang” and “moon howl”, as well as a robot make-up artist, an art-robot flute, bartender robot Homer, beggar robot, smoothie robot, rock climber robot, Rubik's cube robot, joker robot. Also at the exhibition there is a Robo-School with courses and master classes on robotics, there is a multimedia zone: a cube with quadcopters, quests with the participation of robots and a mini-workshop for the production of robots under the guidance of engineers. Here you can get a diploma in robotics and determine whether your child has a talent for engineering.

Museum-theater "Fairy Tale House" in the shopping center "Riviera" Avtozavodskaya metro station From 1 year

The new interactive museum-theater “Fairytale House” is a project from the creators of “KidBurg”, and here children and their parents enter the Russian fairy-tale space right from the door. Guests take part in fabulous events, together with the actors they move from house to house through magic doors located in the most unusual places - in a stove, an old stump or a well. There are also performances for little ones (from 1 year). Games and fun, challenges and riddles, songs and dances are woven into the fairy tale story.

Bioexperimentanium “Living Systems” Savelovskaya m. From 5 years

Museum from the creators of Experimentanium. The main object of research in “Living Systems” is man. The exhibition occupies two floors. The area of ​​the museum is 2.5 thousand square meters. More than a hundred exhibits are collected here, representing the human body as a complex multifaceted system. And in the “Difficulties of the Habitual” zone, you can experience for yourself what people with disabilities face every day. At the “Digest This” master class, children will learn what happens to food inside a person and will even be able to “digest” food with their own hands.

Museum of Entertaining Sciences "Experimentanium" Sokol metro station From 4 years old

Experimentanium is the pioneer of an interactive format in Moscow scientific museums for children. There is an interactive exhibition on three floors that covers the main areas of science. Each room contains exhibits that you can interact with: explore, collect, solve puzzles, pull, jump and even scream. In the museum, children are introduced to electricity and magnetism - with the help of exhibits in the hall of the same name, you can make a magnet levitate, draw with magnetic shavings and see a magnetic cloud. The museum has a “Water Room” - an interactive water installation; the “Mechanics” hall, where you can conduct entertaining experiments; "Laboratory" hall, "Perelman" lecture hall, "Tesla" lecture hall and a spherical cinema.

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Fairy Tale House

The interactive museum-theater Skazkin Dom, located in the shopping and entertainment center on Avtozavodskaya Street, will bring joy to every child - children from 1 year of age can take part in theatrical performances. During the fabulous events, the children will have the opportunity to:

• learn Russian folk traditions,
• enrich your knowledge with recipes from centuries-old folk wisdom,
• understand what is “good” and what is “bad”,
• reveal artistic abilities.

It will be interesting for children and adults to take part in their favorite fairy tales about Kolobok and the Three Little Pigs and touch all the objects with their own hands. The museum hosts festive events - graduations, children's birthdays and other celebrations with an interesting and rich program.

Museum of Soviet slot machines, 5+

Address: metro station VDNKh, Prospekt Mira, 119, Pavilion No. 57. +7 https://www.15kop.ru/museum/moscow

Thanks to this interactive history museum, it’s like taking a ride in a time machine and finding yourself in a happy Soviet childhood, when the main reward for good grades at school was a brand new Murzilka magazine and 15 kopecks to play “sea battle.”

This museum contains prototypes of modern game consoles and computer games - you can play racing, sink an enemy ship and help the wolf collect all the eggs without breaking them. All exhibits are of real historical value, authentic slot machines of that time, in full working order. It will be interesting for both children and adults.

Museum of the History of Chocolate Mishka

A sweet journey into the world of your favorite delicacy awaits you on an excursion to the Museum of the History of Chocolate, created on the basis of products from Soviet factories - Red October and Babaevskaya. The name of the museum, located in the Krasnoselsky district of the capital, was given by the popularly loved candy “Bear Clubfoot”.

There are chocolate museums in other large foreign cities, but the creators of the Russian Mishka focused on studying the history and development of the domestic confectionery industry.

In the very center of the museum there is a figure of a large chocolate Bear, which was created almost forty years ago as a prototype of the bear of the Moscow Olympics-80. The bear weighs almost 100 kilograms and is regularly updated with fresh chocolate.

On an excursion to the Chocolate Museum you:

• learn the entire centuries-old history of the delicacy;
• you will see a real cocoa tree;
• get acquainted with the culture of the Mayan tribe, which was the first to master the drink made from cocoa beans;
• follow the path of chocolate through Europe;
• learn numerous recipes for chocolate sweets;
• You will see the packaging and wrapping options used in past centuries.

And to consolidate their knowledge, children and adults will be shown films about the history of chocolate and treated to delicious pieces of various varieties straight from the assembly line.

Planetarium

The Moscow Planetarium has respectable age and is one of the oldest similar institutions in the world. The planetarium is located in the very center of Moscow, on Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Street, in close proximity to the capital's zoo. You and your children will discover the amazing star world, mysterious planets and cosmic phenomena. Here you can:

• see the oldest astronomical instruments and telescopes,
• see and touch exhibits and trophies from extraterrestrial spaces,
• take part in space experiments at the Lunarium interactive museum,
• watch a themed film in 4D format,
• explore the celestial space on a huge panoramic screen.

"Fairy Tale House" - children's interactive theater-museum

This is a place in Moscow for entertainment and educational recreation for children from three years old. Favorite Russian folk tales come to life here, and professional actors help with this. The morality, history and traditions of our homeland unobtrusively and interestingly come to life in front of children with the help of fairy-tale characters. The repertoire of performances is varied. Children here are not only spectators, but also participants in the performance. Even parents are involved in the fairy tale! Round dances and gatherings around the samovar are part of the performance. The museum-theater's service of holding birthday parties with fairy tale characters has become popular. Children will have an unforgettable experience!

“Fairy Tale House” is located in Moscow, on Avtozavodskaya Street, not far from the Avto metro station.

Fun

The Zabavushka Museum of Russian Toys is located in the east of the capital and has existed for 20 years. Here are exhibits of Russian folk crafts created over the centuries: dolls, animal figurines, nesting dolls, whistles and other relics. Museum toys are made from natural materials: wood, straw, clay, birch bark, fabric.

The exhibition presents products from the largest Russian factories for the production of folk art objects - Dymkovo, Torzhkov, Sergiev Posad and others. In total, the exhibition includes more than two thousand exhibits.

The museum hosts master classes for children on making rag dolls, as well as tea parties with delicious pies prepared according to ancient recipes.

There are many other interesting museums in Moscow: cuckoo clocks, animation, falconry. While traveling around the Russian capital, you have the opportunity to fill your children's leisure time with interesting knowledge and usefully spend your free time and holidays.

Leisure for the little ones

For preschool children, it is better to present information in the form of fairy tales, actively involving them in the storytelling process. The more the baby interacts with the guide, the more interesting it will be for him. Classic museums are not suitable here, so pay attention to interactive exhibitions.

Museum-theater "Fairy Tale House"

Every child wants to become the hero of fairy tales, and here it is possible. Ivan Tsarevich and Vasilisa the Beautiful communicate with children, ask riddles, and assign tasks. The guys test their strength, try on their armor, and fight with the Serpent Gorynych. At the same time, the actors talk about the life of Ancient Rus'. Children will learn what an epic is, what heroes are like, how people greeted each other.

It is better to arrive 40 minutes before the performance. In the foyer there is an area with fairy tale characters and colorful decorations. Children are attracted to the little humpbacked horse, the hut on chicken legs, the throne of the Snow Queen, the Russian stove, and the flying ship. They explore everything with pleasure, climb, and it’s not easy to get them out of the play area. The programs are designed for ages 1 to 12 years.

General information:

• Address : st. Auto.
• Tel..
• Ticket on weekdays/holidays : children – 770/1170 rubles, adults – 500/650 rubles, family (2+2) – 1990/2990 rubles.
• Working hours : from 10 to 20.
• Day off : no.

Advantages:

• Interesting performances.
• Cooperative games.
• Convenient to get to.
• Participation of children in productions.
• Play area in the foyer.
• There is a water cooler.
• You can order a visiting program, themed holidays.

Flaws:

• Many people.
• Small room.
• Paid photography.
• It's hard to get tickets, it's better to book in advance.
• Need replacement shoes.
• There is a wardrobe, but no one looks after things.

Sweet Museum

Flying bananas, statues made of chewing candies, a mirror room with caramels - you will find all this in the Sweet Museum, one of the branches of the BIG CREATIVE company. Here you can sit near a strawberry snail, climb on top of an ice cream, pet a unicorn, ride a swing, or swim in a pool with balls. There are a total of 12 thematic zones dedicated to different delicacies. Unfortunately, you can’t eat them, but you can take as many photographs as you like.

The museum often holds promotions during which you can win a free ticket or attend a master class on making real sweets. For example, on chocolate day, guests are told about the technique of creating it by hand, and everyone is helped to prepare it.

General information:

• Address : st. New Arbat, 24.
• Tel.
• Price : 450 rub.
• Free : up to 5 years.
• Working hours : from 12 to 00.
• Day off : no.

Advantages:

• Bright, light, clean.
• You can photograph anything.
• Friendly staff.
• There are no queues on weekdays.

Flaws:

• You should not enter the ball pool with your hair loose, otherwise hair will remain on the balls. There are rubber bands in a special vase, you can take them for free, but not everyone does this.
• Cramped dressing room.
• Real sweets are not sold.

Museum of Russian folk toys "Zabavushka"

Wooden and clay, patchwork and birch bark, modest and bright - kids can’t tear themselves away from these toys. Individuals are not allowed here, only in groups. Before booking a tour, the employee asks about the age of the children in order to choose a story that will be understandable to them. One excursion is designed for a group of 20 to 40 people.

The guides tell the tale in an interesting and accessible way. Along the way, they tell you how the doll was created and what clay it was made from. They then actively engage the children in conversation. So that the guys don’t get tired of the information, at the end they will have a master class where they can work with their hands. First, the kids learn to put patterns on a piece of paper, then they begin to paint the whistles. You can separately order a lesson on making a doll.

General information:

• Address : Moscow, 1st Pugachevskaya 17, passage metro station “Preobrazhenskaya Square”.
• Tel.,, +7(495)909-13-41.
• Price : children - from 500 rubles, adults - from 150 rubles, teacher free.
• Start time of excursions: 9:30; 11:00; 12:30; 14:00; 15:30; 17:00.
• Day off : no.

Advantages:

• Children find it interesting and educational.
• Good interaction with guests.
• You can play with clay and wooden dolls.
• The children actively participate in the story.
• At the exit they sell original crafts from Dymkovo and Filimonov artisans.
• You can order an on-site master class.

Flaws:

• Inconveniently located.
• You need to take replacement shoes.
• Some toys are broken.
• No photography allowed. Photographer services are available, but you can pay for the shooting and shoot yourself.
• Before visiting, be sure to call the administrator. The exhibition is open only during the hours when there are requests for excursions.