Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
Established | 3 October 1967 |
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Location | Kaluga |
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics (
Main exposition
The exposition of the museum consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to the ideas and research of Tsiolkovsky, and shows a model of the rocket designed by Tsiolkovsky as well as copies of his scientific work. The second part contains mock-ups of space craft like Sputnik 1 and samples of Moon dust. Just outside the museum is a rocket park, which contains amongst others a R-7 rocket.
Tsiolkovsky house
Tsiolkovskiy lived in a cabin on the outskirts of Kaluga. In 1936, after he'd died there, the property was converted into a museum in his honor. Toward the end of his life, Soviet physicist and academic M.E. Tulchinskiy completed a tenure as director of the Tsiolkovsky Memorial House. He was researching Tsiolkovsky's notes in preparation for a book on the reclusive scientist's life, but he died before he could complete it.[3]
The museum also incorporates a scientific effort to study the life and works of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. The Annual Tsiolkovsky Readings and Conference is organized by the museum.
See also
- RKK Energiya museum, major Russian space museum
- French Air and Space Museum
- (United States) National Air and Space Museum
- List of aerospace museums
References
External links
- Official website Archived 2009-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Detailed pictures of the museum