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.

July 13, 2013

The Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg

If someone asks you to describe “Russian,” the first images that probably come to mind include burly Cossacks, round babushkas with head coverings, matryoshkas, etc. While these depictions partially represent Russia, the country includes a variety of ethnic groups (and one included many, many, more before the fall of the USSR). The interaction of these […]

Science Museums

The Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg

Przhevalskii Museum near Karakol

VGUES Museum-Exhibition Complex

The Angarsk Clock Museum near Irkutsk

Irkutsk Natural History Museum

Primorsky State Museum in Vladivostok

Museum of Automotoantiquity in Vladivostok