Museum of K. E. Tsiolkovsky, Aviation and Space

The city of Kirov is the birthplace of cosmonautics: in the XIX century, the family of the great Russian scientist, the founder of cosmonautics K. E. Tsiolkovsky lived here.

In 1988, on the initiative of twice Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR V.P. Savinykh, the opening of the museum of K.E. Tsiolkovsky, aviation and cosmonautics took place. In 2018, the Children’s Space Center was opened.

Today, the museum is a unique multifunctional complex, which includes a historic building and a modern space center, equipped with exposition, exhibition and interactive halls with high-tech equipment and robots.

In the museum, you can not only see the costumes of astronauts, the lander and models of satellites, but also create clouds yourself, test the system of the hadron collider. In one of the halls of the center there is a unique opportunity to take a virtual walk around the ISS, to study its internal structure. Not only excursions are held here, but also entertaining programs, master classes, quests, meetings with astronauts are organized.