🖼 Moscow Planetarium

Садовая-Кудринская ул., 5, стр. 1

One of the world's oldest planetariums, opened in 1929, with a domed star hall and interactive exhibits.

The 1927–1929 building was designed by the Constructivist architects Mikhail Barshch and Mikhail Sinyavsky.
The planetarium opened on 5 November 1929 and was then the only one in the country and the thirteenth in the world.
The projector for the first star hall was made by Germany's Carl Zeiss.
In 1994 the building was declared unsafe, and the planetarium reopened only on 12 June 2011.
The dome of the Great Star Hall is 25 m in diameter, and the projector shows more than 9,000 celestial bodies.
In the 1950s apartment blocks on Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya hid the planetarium from the street, so the dome is visible only through a narrow gap between them.
Inside are the interactive Lunarium museum, the Urania museum with meteorites, and the Sky Park with instruments in the open air.