A museum where you can touch everything. Museums that will be interesting for both children and parents

Early childhood development experts say in unison: the more a child learns the world by “touching and feeling”, the brighter and more complete the picture of the surrounding reality will be in his head.

Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

This applies not only to kids - remember, for example, how you forever imprinted Crimea in your memory by smelling cypresses and magnolias or touching a boulder heated by the sea with your hand. In general, there is still time before the end of the “summer liberation” from kindergartens and schools, so choose interactive museums in Moscow and go there with your children. Believe me, by touching a dinosaur tooth, they will learn and remember much more about its predatory owner than just looking at a picture in an encyclopedia.

Feel everything!

Darwin Museum (57, Vavilov St., Akademicheskaya metro station) ➊.

Remember how, as a child, in natural history museums, you painfully wanted to touch a stuffed fox by the tail, but vigilant caretaker grandmothers stopped any research impulses ... Our children were much more fortunate. For example, in the Darwin Museum they are allowed not only to look at stuffed animals of all types and sizes, but also to go through the “Path of Evolution”, during which you can not only touch everything, but you need to.

What if they are... alive? Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

Together with your children, you will be transported back to 3.5 billion years ago, touch the fossilized prints of plants and the first living organisms, feel the shells and weigh a mammoth tooth in your hand, sit at the site of a primitive man. Answering questions, you will go through the entire evolution together with the flora and fauna of the Earth - this is in a few hours! And at the end, you can climb the stairs to the trunk of an old oak tree and find out who lives in it.

"Experimentanium" (St. Butyrskaya, 46/2, metro station "Savelovskaya") ➋.

Having been in Experimentanium, your child will never in his life associate the word “museum” with something dusty, strict and terribly boring (and, to be honest, many of us thought that about museums in childhood). Because there is everything that children love and respect in an adult way: soap bubbles, a mirror maze, optical illusions. A child can launch a Foucault pendulum, play with patterns of magnetic dust, pick up any musical instrument, visit the darkest room in the world and sit behind the wheel of a giant truck. Adults, looking around guiltily, stealthily also try to create a cloud or look into a model of a human eye - because it is impossible to resist. It is important that all this is not just “entertainment” - while playing and laughing, children learn and remember the basic laws of physics, chemistry, etc.

Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

"Lunarium" (street Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, 5, building 1, metro station "Barrikadnaya") ➌.

It is better for children to go here with their mothers. Why? Because women who watch their kilograms (and, according to statistics, 99%) can find out their weight here on ... other planets, and it is this, if the cosmic scales played in your favor, that they indicate, for example, on dating sites. "Lunarium" - two-story, divided into two departments - "Astronomy and Physics" and "Comprehension of Space". Here, too, as in the Experimentanium, you can create a tornado and clouds (it seems that this is becoming a typical Moscow entertainment. - Ed.), Consider the "Black Hole", "Ferrofluid Hedgehog" and "Hyperboloid Magic Wand", and also visit in the lunar laboratory, look at stars and planets through a telescope, shoot at asteroids and even launch a rocket. In addition, your children can send a message to aliens - this is very stimulating for literacy and in general the desire to write ... outside the school year!

Surprise and rejoice

"Innopark" in the park "Sokolniki" (PKIO "Sokolniki", metro station "Sokolniki") ➍.

After winding up on the rides, it’s good to have a bite to eat in Sokolniki and unobtrusively captivate children to Innopark. In just 30 minutes, your child will be allowed to blow a giant soap bubble, control a robot and participate in gravity races. The guides guarantee that 90% of the children who have been on “inno-excursions” show an increased interest in physics and chemistry, which is quite understandable: they begin to put scientific experiments right at the entrance, it is impossible not to participate in the process. An explosion in a flask, a robot - a friend from watching cartoons, a soap bubble that does not burst for 3 hours and even drove home - prepare your child for the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University!

Museum of Soviet Slot Machines (11 Baumanskaya St., Baumanskaya metro station) ➎.

Even the “tablet generation” like slot machines. Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

Now it is very difficult, you see, to tell modern children about your childhood: stumbling begins with the USSR and ends with pioneer ties. The best way to indulge your beloved child in your nostalgia is to take him to the interactive slot machine museum.

You can't light a lantern without a ladder. Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

It is unrealistically difficult for 5-10-year-olds with their daily available computer games to imagine how we begged 15 kopecks from our parents for months to fight in Sea Battle, but here they can really feel it! "Safari", "Basketball", "Magistral", "Winter Hunt" plus soda from the machine - a rare chance to plunge into retro childhood and colorize modern childhood, because the children of 2014 in this museum are first surprised and then touched.

"Lights of Moscow" (Armyansky lane, 3/5, building 1, metro station "Chistye Prudy") ➏.

You and your child can r-be a lamplighter, make and paint a candle, learn to d-know the fire, r-attend a ball by candlelight and go around the center of Moscow with a special lamp at dusk. You can p-move to 1812, try yourself as a dispatcher at the lighting control panel, or touch the “s-tree with a torch”. Another option (these are additional programs) is to learn to write with a quill pen, play robber Cossacks (with an unobtrusive study of the history of Moscow streets) and even find a treasure! Apogee - tea from a coal samovar. Children squeak with delight and look with contempt at electric kettles at home.

A place where feelings are sharpened, vivid impressions are born and amazing abilities are revealed, is waiting for you in the Riviera shopping center. Take a dive into the dark for a unique experience.

Lomakov Museum of Vintage Cars and Motorcycles 0+

There are many ways to travel back in time. The Lomakov Museum offers visitors to appreciate a large collection of retro equipment. Each car has its own history, and each of them is interesting in its own way. And after the tour, you should take a ride on the rare Antelope convertible!

Museum "Lights of Moscow" 6+

If you are interested in the history of the capital, then this museum is definitely worth a visit. Here, old Moscow opens from a completely unusual side - lighting fixtures of all kinds and colors tell about its past and present. Lanterns, lamps, lamps, kerosene stoves - at first glance, these are just museum exhibits. But during the tours, the objects “come to life”, and visitors, as one, succumb to the charm of the night lights of Moscow. The museum's interactive fund stores many household items that you can personally try out in action.

This museum is like traveling back in time. It is interesting to be in the hall, where almost the entire arsenal of the entertainment industry of the Soviet era is presented. Adults will be pleased to nostalgic. Children will like old-school toys no less. Despite the fact that the modern generation is spoiled with computer games, the old machines almost always seem to be more “alive”. A rare child can be quickly torn away from the exhibits - there are practically no emulators for computers with such games, so they all seem new and entertaining.

Paleontological Museum 6+

You can trace the evolution of the organic world and see dinosaurs not as monsters from horror films, but as reptiles in the Mesozoic era at the Paleontological Museum. Schoolchildren attending the paleontological circle are offered to go on excavations with professionals and even participate in the creation of full-fledged exhibits.

Polytechnic Museum at VDNKh 0+

While the Polytechnic Museum is being reconstructed, its exposition "Russia makes itself" is located in the 26th pavilion of the All-Russian Exhibition Center ("Transport"). Here, visitors can not only see the achievements of science, but also check them in action, as well as independently perform exciting experiments and experiments.

Moscow Planetarium 0+

Since ancient times, man has been fascinated by the sight of the night sky strewn with twinkling lights. You can guess the constellations, look at the planets and even watch comets in the artificial sky of the Moscow Planetarium. So let's fly to the stars!

Museum of entertaining sciences "Experimentanium" 6+

The amazing world of physics and natural sciences opens up to visitors at the Experimentanium Museum. Show programs, master classes and expositions on various topics - here "why-why" of any age will be able to find out the answers to their questions.

Darwin Museum 0+

In this place you can get knowledge from "A" to "Z". Here you will learn how life originated on planet Earth, the laws of biological development and even the secrets of indoor plants. Excursions will satisfy the thirst for knowledge of both the youngest visitors and adults.

Museum of the Cold War "Bunker-42" on Taganka 16+

Former military facility during the Cold War. Now there is a museum, which is famous for its unusual excursions. In addition to excursions, in the museum you can order a non-children's quest for a large company, including a night one. Find out all the secrets of the dungeon!

Museum of nomadic culture 6+
A place where geography lessons won't be boring.

Have you always dreamed of seeing the inside of a yurt? In the museum created by Konstantin Kuksin, you can not only see the culture and life of nomads, but also immerse yourself in it - try national dishes, ride horses, shoot archery, listen to folk songs and fairy tales.

Animation Museum 0+

Who invented Cheburashka and how? Why is the Matroskin cat so wise and how are cartoons created in general? If the world of animation has not yet revealed its secrets to you, then it's time to go to this museum. Here you will get answers to many questions, and as a bonus, you can make your own cartoon.

Close contact with animals and observing them in specially created habitats can give a child much more than reading books about their behavior and habits or a simple trip to the forest. Some "islands" of the animal world in the stone jungle are located in Moscow. To get to others, you have to go out of town - to the Moscow region and nearby territories.

Where can you go to see the fauna in all its glory? And where does the acquaintance with the animal world take place in the format of an excursion?

The traditional place for communication between children and adults with animals is, of course, the Moscow Zoo - the oldest in our country. Its collection includes several thousand representatives of the animal world. Recently, the main zoo of the country not only takes an active part in official holidays, but also organizes its own events.

Unfortunately, in the capital's zoo you can not take animals in your hands. Almost all of its inhabitants have to be looked at from afar. And this is probably a minus. However, there are many places in the capital where our little brothers can not only be touched, but also fed.

One of these places is, for example, the contact zoo "Forest Embassy". Its peculiarity is that the animals here do not sit in cages, but live in the wild and enjoy freedom. Hedgehogs, rabbits, chickens and ducklings, colorful parrots, guinea fowls, guinea pigs, minipings and kangaroos literally follow the visitors. Animals are allowed to be treated with vegetables and fruits.

Feeding, stroking and picking up animals is also allowed in petting zoos "Animals as toys".

Raccoons, guinea pigs, dwarf rabbits, squirrels, eared hedgehogs, budgerigars live on their territory. Zoo staff are happy to conduct tours and talk about pets.

You can get to know the representatives of the fauna better and learn about their life during the excursion in the contact mini-zoo "Gorki", which is located in the Kolomensky district of the Moscow region.

The zoo contains llamas, camels, ponies, musk oxen, Vietnamese pigs, horses, cows, raccoons, Alaskan Malamute, rabbits, porcupines. In the poultry yard you can see various chickens, peacocks, guinea fowls, ducks, cranes. Moose and spotted deer live in a small forest in a fenced area.

There are similar places for parents with children in other areas of the capital and in some cities near Moscow. These are, in particular, contact zoos "Country ENOTIYA" and "White Kangaroo". Their inhabitants also gladly allow themselves to be caressed and allowed to scratch their back or abdomen.

Another, no less interesting place is located near Moscow, the village of the state farm. Lenin. We are talking about the "Contact Village" - a place where children learn about the life of a peasant and his way of life, where you can feed birds and animals, play and communicate with them.

Excursions are organized here that acquaint you with the history of the labor of people on earth, with centuries-old Russian traditions, and the warmth of village life. Children milk a cow, communicate with rabbits and chickens, goats and foals, calves, chickens, ride a horse and a cart with a heavy truck, learn to make wax candles.

Another corner of wildlife is the zoo in the suburban complex "Otrada". Its exposition includes more than 150 representatives of the bird world, which can be fed and stroked. There is a herd of spotted deer, rabbits, squirrels, goats and mini pigs.

Touching striped raccoons are of no less interest to visitors. Special pride - a large poultry yard. Tours are organized at the zoo. There is a rope park and a children's playground with a sandbox, slides, a gymnastic complex and a carousel.

You can get to know the falcons better and even attend a falconry lesson at the Museum of Nature and Falconry, which is located in the Mytishchi district of the Moscow region. Children from 6 years old and adults can become participants in excursion and game programs, quests, master classes. Program participants will have a tour of the museum exposition and acquaintance with different types of birds of prey.

Other birds are always ready for closer communication with children and adults, although they are larger in size. We are talking about ostriches that live in the Serpukhov region on the ostrich farm " Russian ostrich".

You can visit the tour, during which you will learn about the life of the inhabitants of the farm, or you can become participants in a tasting tour, during which you will taste ostrich meat barbecue and ostrich egg omelet. The smallest visitors will enjoy the mini-zoo.