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.

October 30, 2026

Underground Printing House Museum: Inside Tbilisi’s Hidden Revolutionary Press

Several years ago, when visiting Gori, Georgia, the birthplace of Stalin, I learned there was another place associated with him in Tbilisi, an underground printing press, that was once accessible, apparently, only by lowering oneself down a well and traveling through an underground passage. The Russian Revolution, hidden places, typography – this place ticked a […]

Science Museums

Underground Printing House Museum: Inside Tbilisi’s Hidden Revolutionary Press

Warsaw Museum of Computers and Games

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