🖼 Grand Maket Russia Museum

Цветочная ул., 16

All of Russia in miniature: an 800 m² moving model

The model is built at a scale of 1:87 and is second in area only to Hamburg's Miniatur Wunderland.
The project's author and investor is the entrepreneur Sergey Morozov; about a hundred people spent five years building the model.
The first guests came in April 2011, and the museum officially opened on 8 June 2012.
Every 13 minutes day and night change over the model, lit by more than 800,000 LEDs.
More than 2,500 m of rails run through the model, with over 2,700 pieces of rolling stock, 250 of them locomotives.
The little cars brake at traffic lights and overtake, receiving power remotely from under the model.
The museum occupies a two-storey building of 1953 in the Stalinist Empire style.

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