Science Museums

Much of the former communist space has a long and proud history of scientific achievement. The communists in particular held science to be one of the most important aspects of social development and identity. This has not greatly changed even in the post-communist era. Thus, museums to science, industry, and technology were commonly founded across the former communist space and remain generally popular and supported today.

September 9, 2025

The State Silk Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia

The Georgian State Silk Museum celebrates and supports sericulture (the process of making silk) as an act of biology, engineering, handicraft, and art. Its displays take you through the lifecycle of the silk-worm to the gathering, weaving, and dying of silk threads to the final cultural products sericulture produces. The facility also hosts a reference […]

Science Museums

The State Silk Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia

Museum of Georgian Medicine: Two Stories Told

Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine

The Zoological Museum of the Biology and Soil Institute in Bishkek

The Primorsky Oceanarium in Vladivostok

The Leningrad Zoo: Under the Tsars, during WWII, and Today

A Visit to the Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw

A Visit to the Neon Museum, Warsaw

Exhibition of Peter the Great’s Art, Science, and Chinese Ties Opens in Moscow