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Unusual · since 2021

The Museum of Cryptography

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The Museum of Cryptography
Leokand, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
The only museum in Russia about the cipher and about how a message reaches the person it is meant for — a subject nobody else takes up. It is made to present-day museum standards: object, explanation and working mechanism stand on equal terms, and it can be followed without a guide. A holding of world rank there is not and cannot be: the subject is young. Bletchley Park tells the story of the men who broke the machine; here the machine itself is put in a line six thousand years long, and Enigma is one entry in it. And a separate circumstance: the building is the former Marfino sharashka, a prison for scientists where Solzhenitsyn was held and about which In the First Circle was written. The museum says so plainly.

Cipher machines of the twentieth century, the German Enigma among them. Soviet scrambling apparatus. Sections on the ciphers of antiquity and on cryptography now. A display about the Marfino sharashka, within its own walls.

8.1 km from here · Botanicheskaya Street 25, building 4 · ·
· No. 72
Military history · since 1962

The Borodino Panorama

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The Borodino Panorama
Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Roubaud’s panorama is one of the few survivors of a genre that was the summit of 19th-century visual culture and has almost entirely vanished. The value lies in the machinery of the spectacle, not in the subject: this is how people looked before cinema.

Franz Roubaud’s Borodino panorama of 1912: 115 metres of canvas in the round, 15 metres high. Next door, the Kutuzov hut where on 1 September 1812 the council of war decided to abandon Moscow.

8.4 km from here · Kutuzovsky Prospekt 38, bldg 1 · ·
· No. 9
Military history · since 1995

The Victory Museum

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The Victory Museum
mos.ru, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A memorial rather than a collection: its strength is the scale of the spectacle and the Hall of Remembrance, not the originals. By museum standards it is average, and you should know that before going.

The Hall of Glory and the Hall of Remembrance and Sorrow; six dioramas of the decisive battles; the open-air park of military hardware.

9.7 km from here · Pobedy Square 3 · ·
· No. 29
Science and nature · since 1907

The Darwin Museum

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The Darwin Museum
Andrei Subbotin, CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The oldest museum of evolution in Russia, built around an idea rather than around a case of stuffed animals: Kots collected proofs of variability, and the display serves the proof. It cannot match Vienna or Berlin for material, but its way of arguing stands on its own.

Early 20th-century taxidermy by Filipp Fedulov, among the finest anywhere; the collection of albinos and melanists gathered by Kots as visible proof of variability; the Living Planet hall.

9.8 km from here · Vavilova 57 · ·
· No. 57

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