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Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –
The Moscow Transport Museum is celebrating five years since its opening. On January 28, 2020, it received its name and became a subordinate organization of the capital’s Department of Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure.
“In five years of work, the Moscow Transport Museum has become one of the key transport and technical museums of the capital. On behalf of Sergei Sobyanin, we are engaged in preserving the transport heritage and strive to increase interest in it through various projects. The museum is very popular – more than one million people have already visited our exhibitions, festivals, lectures, master classes and excursions,” said the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry
The museum is engaged in the restoration and storage of exhibits, exhibition, publishing, research and educational activities. Its collection contains 1,515 artifacts and 237 units of equipment. There are also exhibits that are unique in world history: for example, the only horse-drawn tram from 1872 recreated on the original chassis, one of the two surviving BF tram cars in the world, a KIM-10-50 passenger car, a SVARZ crane platform, a ZIS-154 bus, as well as the only surviving B.
Since 2020, the institution’s employees have restored 20 exhibits and 76 artifacts, and performed local repairs on 16 items. Most of them can be seen in the permanent exhibition. This year, the museum continues a large-scale program to restore unique equipment, including buses, trams, metro cars, and cars.
Over five years, 32 exhibitions were held here, 59 special projects were implemented, 626 educational events, 1845 excursions were organized, and eight books were published. The museum collection was replenished with 17.5 thousand archival files and more than six thousand publications.
“From the very beginning, we created the Moscow Transport Museum as a living public space that answers an important question: what moves the city? We consider transport as part of urban culture and study it as a system, the main aspect of which is the relationship with a person. This is a museum about people and for people – all our projects, from children’s master classes to festivals for thousands, are designed to unite a variety of visitors and show them the amazing world that the topic of transport opens up. Over the past five years, the museum team has done a huge amount of work, which can be expressed in numbers, but the most significant thing is the growing love and interest in our projects and the urban culture of movement,” added Oksana Bondarenko, Director of the Moscow Transport Museum.
Exhibitions and excursions
Many major projects were implemented in the USSR Transport Pavilion at VDNKh. In 2021, the exhibition “Muscovite’s Dream” opened there (it was visited by 140 thousand people), a year later – the exhibition “You are here. Always. Today. The day after tomorrow” (it attracted 85 thousand visitors). In November last year, the exhibition opened “You look 100%!”, over 25 thousand people visited it during 2.5 months of work. In addition, the museum regularly holds thematic exhibitions at the Northern and Southern river terminals.
Since 2021, the museum has had its own tour desk. In addition to tours of the exhibition and the storage facility, employees organize walks on the metro, as well as around the Northern and Southern river terminals.
“New Era of the Moscow Metro” is the most popular year-round tour of the stations of the Big Circle Line (BCL). During the walk, guides talk about the innovative technologies used in the design of the stations, reveal the meaning of hidden messages and symbols left by the architects. Participants will learn how the design of the platforms reflects the features of the areas where the stations are located, how new lines are built, and how the metro works in general.
In summer, visitors show great interest in exploring the museum’s collections. Here you can see over 100 exhibits of passenger cars, trucks and city vehicles from the USSR – taxis, police cars, rare Moskvichs, buses and legendary cars from the 1980s. Guests are also shown how museum employees restore equipment.
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Festivals and conferences
In 2022, the first Retroreis festival took place — since then, it has annually brought together tens of thousands of people interested in transport culture. Since 2023, as part of the city’s Night at the Museum event, the Tour of Cultures museum rally has been held, in which the capital’s largest institutions participate.
That same year, the Moscow Transport Museum organized the first scientific and practical conference, “Museums of Movement — Museums in Motion.” Its goal was to unite museum and transport communities to discuss similar tasks, as well as expand professional interaction. After the conference, an annual experience exchange program was launched.
This year, the museum team continues to work on creating a permanent exhibition, which will be located in the garage of the architect Konstantin Melnikov on Novorizhanskaya Street (building 27). The building, which is a monument of avant-garde architecture, is currently undergoing restoration. It will be returned to its historical appearance.
Moscow Transport Museum — is an open urban space and research center. Its collections include more than 250 examples of passenger cars, trucks, buses, trolleybuses, taxis, city service vehicles, bicycles and motorcycles. The exhibits can be seen at exhibitions and transport infrastructure facilities.
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