Add a review about the Museum and Exhibition Center "Samara Space"

One of the city's youngest museums, "Samara Space" probably will seem to someone and the most interesting. Still: opened in 2007, the museum immediately became one of the winners of the award "Tourist brand of the Samara region." And why? Yes, at least because here you can see a real carrier rocket "Soyuz", collected and standing with his nose to the sky. Nowhere else in Europe will you find such a thing!

"Soyuz" stands on Lenin Ave. and is perfectly visible from the metro station. It was organically added to the facade of the museum building, and this architectural project became one of the most original and interesting in the city for the entire 21st century. Actually, the museum is a pedestal on which there is a rocket. Together with the spacecraft, its height reaches almost 70 m. The rocket weighs 20 tons, and the construction that holds it - is 2, 5 times larger.

The Soyuz rocket was organically inscribed in the facade of the museum building, and this architectural project became one from the most original and interesting in the city for the entire 21st century.

Specifically this copy of the "Union" was created in 1984 at the Progress plant in Samara (then still in Kuibyshev), although it did not fly to space. In 1999, the ship was presented with the TsSKB "Progress", which removed all the equipment from it and further strengthened the structure. The rocket as a monument took its place in the city in 2001, but the museum exposition was prepared only 6 years later

Samara Space Museum

The exposition is divided into two parts . The first (first floor) includes space instruments and models space vehicles . The second part is devoted not so much to technology as to people in space, their way of life and everyday activities . The exhibition is well equipped with interactive components that clearly show how it all works together . Here are the spacecraft "Resource "F-1 and F2 and" Yantar -2К ", intended for photography and mapping . And also - the real engine NK-33 for the first stage of the lunar spacecraft . Also visitors of the museum can see the cosmonaut's spacesuit and a set of space products that were being fired by the first cosmonauts . At large screens in the meantime show videos about the everyday life of astronauts in orbit .

The futuristic "Pocket space" exposition looks the most futuristic. Here you can see a lot, listen and touch - and all this in the interiors of some fantastic film.

In the museum souvenir shop, greed can take even the most moderate. Who does not want to bring friends a flash drive in the form of a cosmic man, an icon with a portrait and a quote from one of the Russian cosmonauts, or a gift tube with a rare issue of the newspaper Izvestia, which reported the first manned space flight ?!

Practical information

Address: Lenin Ave. 21.

The nearest metro station to the museum is Rossiyskaya. Also the museum can be reached by buses No. 2, 23, 25, 47, 50 and 61, by trolleybus No. 19 or trams No. 4, 5, 18, 20, 22, 23.

Working hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 18:00, on Saturday from 10:00 to 17:00, on Sunday from 11: 00 to 15:00. The first Tuesday of the month is a day off.

Entrance: examination of the exposition "Samara Space" or the Exposition "Waiting for Space" for adult citizens of the Russian Federation - 100 RUB, for schoolchildren, students and pensioners 70 RUB, for preschoolers - for free. Family ticket (2 adults + 2 children) - 200 RUB (February 2015).