Политехнический Музей

Yesterday I went to Moscow's Polytechnic Museum...  And in almost every sense it is now my all time favorite museum.  Not that I had previously been keeping track of favorite museums, but this place was fucking rad.

From 10/18/08

Science rules!

There were three types of exhibit.  The first looked like an entry for an 8th grade science fair:

From 10/18/08

Space!

The second type was all the stuff I'm convinced never actually existed (but only ever made it to prototype stage, so now that prototype is stored here):

From 10/18/08

Kids like to touch the exhibits in Russia too.

The third type was by far the best.  This is where the museum just flat out made shit up.  A good portion of the exhibits, for instance, were just a mish-mash of science fiction and hallucination, with no grounding in reality whatsoever:

From 10/18/08

There are a lot more pictures on my photobucket/picasa account(s), if you're interested (I highly recommend it).  After that, on our way home, we saw the KGB/FSB headquarters and I took a picture:

From 10/18/08

Then I bought this at a little souvenir shop by the subway:

From 10/20/08

It was a pretty good day.