It was possible today to be the first to visit the updated “Cosmos”, and as a person who has been there a year and 20 years ago I cannot but share my impressions!
The main impression is scale. With the discovery of “space” we got a huge museum, I don’t even know what to compare with in Moscow. And this is not just about gigantic proportions, the whole museum is built around the idea of large-scale space - half of the exhibits are simply placed in the air, and the pavilion is quite high, 50 meters and the devices soaring in three layers create a rather strong impression of epic. The second half is full-size copies, for example, the layout of the world station where the astronauts took part in the training. If you go to take pictures, be sure to take a wide-angle lens!
I remember how impressed I was with “Cosmos” in my childhood, when I came with my parents in the 80s and 90s - the entire VDNKh did not arouse my interest, but the huge hangar filled with satellites always impressed me. And I remember how I could not understand where the first satellite came from here - how did they get it back from space? Realizing that in the museum some models I was pretty upset. If you go to the museum, you want to touch something real.
And the new "Cosmos" is built all around this idea of genuine exhibits. The first thing you see at the entrance is a genuine capsule of Yuri Gagarin, directly from the burned insulation, from this angle you can see the melted glass wool from above:
The satellite is also in place:
Inside the beauty hall suits:
Hall of rocket engines:
Do you see a black cinema shell in the upper right corner? Guess what it shows:
The following “hall” is occupied by the layout of the Mir station:
And before him is a collection of exhibits:
It was very amusing that the whole exposition was in the closets and you yourself need to pull out the glowing drawer to see the exhibits (mostly books and electronic circuits), a very ironic move:
For the first time I saw in the museum so many quiet and attentive children. The pics show that they go there just lost with their mouth open - space knows how to make an impression.
Some exhibits really look like works of art, IMHO of course:
At the end of the pavilion, the nail of the program and the final chord of gigantism is a colossal glass dome and under it a huge spherical ice-screen (10 meters, no less), to which the image of the earth is displayed. When you are standing next to you it is very impressive - but whoever didn’t take the wide-angle with him, you won’t wait for epic photos.
Right in the center you can see the main guide, up close he looks even better. If somewhere and the uprising of machines begins, then at ENEA.
The dome itself was completely restored - and even returned the seven-meter star in the middle. Last winter I went here to fight robots, it looked like it was in Fallout, and now, probably, as in bioshock in his best years:
Well that's all! It's time to go out.
I showed in the review, at best, a third of what is there - all the rooms are simply filled with wardrobes with drawers and you need to open each one to see what's in it. Why are there cabinets, I didn’t even have time to pofot even inside the World - but for a first impression, that's enough. Hello!
PS Super important information - the first two months of tickets to the "Cosmos" will be sold only on the site of the pavilion, just come and buy at the entrance will not work, keep this in mind - just a preliminary record.