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The Polytechnic Museum in Moscow is the largest technical museum in Russia, one of the oldest scientific and technical museums in the world, created on the initiative of the Moscow Society of Lovers of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography on the basis of the funds of the Polytechnic Exhibition of 1872. About 200 thousand museum items collected in 150 museum collections dedicated to various fields of science and technology are stored in exhibition halls and funds, there is a technical library with more than 3 million books and publications published in the 16th-21st centuries in Russian and other languages . The museum is especially proud of its collection of vehicles, with the pearl of the automotive section - the only surviving Russian car of pre-revolutionary construction in the world - the Russo-Balt of 1911.
The main building of the museum on New Square is closed for a complete renovation until 2018. During this period, the museum is not closed, but operates at several partner sites in Moscow. Children's education programs of the Polytechnic Museum temporarily moved to the ZIL Cultural Center. Some of the exhibits are stored in specially prepared storages at the Moskvich automobile plant. Also, some museum collections of the Polytechnic University moved to the territory of the All-Russian Exhibition Center in the Transport pavilion until the end of the renovation. In the Technopolis "Moscow" you can visit the museum's open funds with a guided tour, where the most unique and valuable exhibits are collected.