Unique transport equipment can be seen on a VR walk through the Moscow Transport Museum

On December 19, the Moscow Transport Museum will present VR excursions at the International Forum “DIGITAL TRANSPORTATION”, where anyone can take a virtual walk around permanent exhibition. This unique opportunity will be presented to the general public for the first time.

The physical opportunity to view unique transport exhibits will appear only at the end of 2024. Now the building that will house the museum’s permanent exhibition, a former garage for Konstantin Melnikov’s trucks, is being restored to its historical appearance.

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On the virtual tour you will be able to see 53 vehicles, including buses, trolleybuses, tram cars, trucks and cars, special equipment vehicles and even metro cars. Participants will also be able to get acquainted with full-size models of Moscow transport, which has already been lost: this is a double-decker trolleybus YATB-3, the first capital omnibus Daimler-Marienfelde of 1905 and a Leyland GH6 bus, which Muscovites traveled on in 1924.

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Thanks to advanced digital technologies, forum participants will be able to get acquainted with the permanent exhibition of the Moscow Transport Museum and the unique historical transport of the capital on December 19.

Venues of the Moscow Transport Museum:

< li>Pavilion No. 26 of VDNKh “Transport of the USSR”

In pavilion No. 26 of VDNKh “Transport of the USSR” the museum holds temporary exhibitions, where it presents a collection of vehicles, conducts lectures and master classes for children.

• Exhibition space of the museum at the Northern River Station

In the building of the Northern River Station, the museum provides an exhibition space for cross-cultural communications and artistic expressions. Installations are on display in the waiting room for all guests of Vietnam.

• Exhibition space of the museum at the Southern River Station

At the first exhibition “Moscow Passenger River”, the museum presents in chronological order the key events in the history of the development of the river — from the construction of the Vodootvodny Canal in the 18th century to the launch of electric water vessels in the 21st century.

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In the metro, the museum presents the “Museumnaya Station” project, within which posters specially created by artists, illustrators and designers on current topics for the transport industry around the world regularly appear at stations, in lobbies and passages .

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