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A historical building has been lifted up six meters

Author: Mikhail Kolobaev

Published: 12 June 2011

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A historical building has been lifted up six meters

The Urania Museum

It feels like you are on the set for the film “Star Wars”

A glass projection screen – the picture hangs in the air

The planetarium mockup at the entrance is lit with all the colors of the rainbow

A plasma globe invented by Nikola Tesla

A static electricity display case

A real small tornado of air-flows and steam

You can hear radio signals belonging to certain places on the globe if you touch them

Classic optic illusions

Lunarium, Hall 1

A three-dimension Moon globe

Magnetized balls show gravitational interaction between celestial bodies

You can guess the name of a stellar constellation by pressing the right button

Gift shop

Old starry sky balopticons of the Moscow planetarium

Children studying a starry sky globe

The work place of a medieval astronomer

The Vostok ZKA-2 spaceship’s landing capsule

There are 113 samples of extraterrestrial matter in the museum’s meteorites collection

The solar system model

Optic scheme of light dispersion into a spectrum

Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth...

Exhibits from the planetarium’s museum collection

A medieval astronomer and a big collection of ancient astronomy tools

This starry sky balopticon worked in 1977-1994

The lamp and optic equipment of a balopticon from 1929

Popular singer Iliya Lagutenko and his family generate a cloud

Figure out your weight in the different gravity conditions

The ISS mockup

The heart of the planetarium – the new balopticon Universarium M9

The system is controlled from this small board

The Big Stellar Hall – though unfortunately without stars

14,000 square meters of new premises have been added to it

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