House of entertaining science. “House of Entertaining Science and Technology” in Kazan

House of Entertaining Science- a museum opened on October 15, 1935 in Leningrad with the aim of popularizing scientific knowledge among children and adults and closed on June 29, 1941, with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

Opening

In the summer of 1934 on Elagin Island, in the Central Park of Culture and Culture named after. Kirov, the “Pavilion of Entertaining Science” was opened. Then the pavilion continued its work in the summer of 1935, and on October 15, 1935, the House of Entertaining Science (DZN) opened on Fontanka, 34 - in the right wing of the Sheremetyev Palace (Fountain House). Here the DZN existed until the start of the Great Patriotic War, occupying most of the building by 1941 and sharing it with the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route.

Organization

The main creators of DZN were: Ya. I. Perelman (he prepared the departments of physics, mathematics and astronomy), V. A. Kamsky - director of the Combine of Visual Agitation and Propaganda (KNAP), L. V. Uspensky (department of geology and geography), artists A. Ya. Malkov and B. B. Welte, and designer N. G. Timofeev.

V. A. Kamsky became the director of the museum, Perelman became the scientific director, and later Lengauer. The secretary was L.M. Meskina. V.D. Nikolsky also took part in the work of the museum.

I have no idea how Kamsky managed to create the DZN. But, as soon as it got back on its feet, the House turned into a self-supporting institution that did not receive subsidies from anyone, but grew and generated considerable income.

The methodological council of the DZN included academicians S. I. Vavilov, A. F. Ioffe, D. S. Rozhdestvensky, A. E. Fersman, physicists M. P. Bronshtein, E. P. Khalfin, astronomers V. I. Pryanishnikov and G. G. Lengauer, optician M. L. Veingerov.

The “tentacles” of the House of Entertaining Science extended far beyond its borders. The House staff diligently “exported” entertaining science. DZN lecturers B.I. Eluferyev, E.P. Khalfin, F.Ya. Sobol and others often spoke at enterprises, schools, and military units. There were more than fifty clubs in the DZN, in which students from different schools studied. Mathematical, physical and geographical olympiads, competitions, and debates were regularly held. In the district Houses of Pioneers and Schoolchildren, corners of the Children's Education Society were set up.

Exposition

His courtyard was also a “preface” to the DZN. A wide stripe of white enamel paint was applied directly from the magnificent cast-iron grille of the gate onto the pavement. At its end, near the front door, they placed a stone column with a sign: “The House of Entertaining Science’s own meridian. Coordinates: 59°57" north latitude, 30° 19" east. longitude".

DZN promoted science in a playful way, most of the exhibits were interactive and visual (Galton's board, Grokhovsky's catapult, wind tunnel, Maxwell's pendulum, a two-meter model of a rocket "based on Tsiolkovsky's own sketch").

Exhibits, in Perelman’s deep conviction, should be accessible to the visitor; they can be touched, examined from all sides, delved into their structure, clearly seen their design and meaningfully worked with them. Exhibits and devices should not have categorical inscriptions: “Do not touch with your hands!”, “Do not go beyond the fence!”

The museum had over 500 large exhibits and many small ones (transparencies, models, instruments, diagrams and diagrams). All of them were grouped in four departments (1939):

astronomy (with the meteorology department),
Geography (with the Department of Geology),
mathematicians
physics (with an optics room).

In 1940 the following departments were opened:

Electricity
Hall of Jules Verne.

A hall of entertaining linguistics was planned.

Closing

On June 29, 1941, the museum was closed. The following employees went to the front: director V. A. Kamsky, lecturers V. I. Pryanishnikov and L. V. Uspensky, artist A. Ya. Malkov. In March 1942, V. A. Kamsky died on the Volkhov Front, and on March 16, Ya. I. Perelman died in besieged Leningrad.

During the siege, the exhibition was apparently completely destroyed. “There is information that some of the exhibits of the Leningrad Museum were evacuated to the Urals, some were deposited in the Department of Culture of the Leningrad City Council, the rest were buried in the garden of the Fountain House.”

Publications

The House of Entertaining Science published a series of miniature (8x12 cm) popular science books on various branches of science and technology. In total, about 40 brochures were published, each with a circulation of 100-200 thousand copies (links to bibliographic cards of the National Library of Russia are provided):

1936

House of entertaining science. Plans for thematic excursions. - L.: DZN, 1936. 8 p. 1,000 copies

1938

Astronomical calendar for 1939 - L.: DZN, 1938.

Outdoor evenings of entertaining science. Approximate topics and plans for lectures and conversations. - L.: DZN, 1938. 31 p. 1,100 copies

1939

Outdoor evenings of entertaining science in 1939-1940. - L.: DZN, 1939. 30 p.

Lengauer G. G. Movable map of the northern starry sky. - L.: DZN, 1939.

Million and billion. Numerical giants of the 3rd Five-Year Plan. - L.: DZN, 1939. 16 p. 6,000 copies

Perelman Ya. I. Perpetual motion machines. Why are they impossible? - L.: DZN, 1939.

Perelman Ya. I. Twice two is five! (Mathematical sophisms). - L.: DZN, 1939.

Perelman Ya. I. Optical illusions. - L.: DZN, 1939.

Uspensky L.V. What is your name? Dictionary of names. - L.: DZN, 1939. 16 p. 200,000 copies

1940

Bronstein M.P. Science and defense. Brief (annotated) bibliography index. - L.: DZN, 1940. 12 p. 5,000 copies

Sunrise and sunset. (Nomogram). - L.: DZN, 1940.

House of entertaining science. - L.: DZN, 1940.

House of entertaining science. Outdoor evenings of entertaining science. (Popular science lectures and conversations.) 1940-41 - L.: DZN, 1940.

Kamsky V. A. (ed.) 10 problems about a submarine. - L.: DZN, 1940.

Kamsky V. A. (ed.) 10 problems about a cannon. - L.: DZN, 1940. 20 p. 100,000 copies

Lengauer G. G. Moon phases for 100 years. - L.: DZN, 1940.

Lengauer G. G. Pocket solar compass watch. - L.: DZN, 1940. 4 p.

Mamaev G., Pavlov E. 10 problems about an airplane. - L.: DZN, 1940.

Perelman Ya. I. Algebra on checkered paper. - L.: DZN, 1940.

Perelman Ya. I. Edison's problems. - L.: DZN, 1940.

Perelman Ya. I. Magic squares. - L.: DZN, 1940.

Perelman Ya. I. Find the error. (Geometric sophisms). - L.: DZN, 1940.

Perelman Ya. I. With one stroke. (Drawing figures with one continuous line). - L.: DZN, 1940.

Sergeev Ya. From the carriage window. - L.: DZN, 1940. (djvu)

Stepanov P.P. How America was discovered. - L.: DZN. 1940. 32 art. 80,000 copies

Three-digit logarithms. - L.: DZN, 1940.

Uspensky L.V. (comp.) Map of the USSR (Album). - L.: DZN, 1940.

Uspensky L.V. What does your name mean? Dictionary of names. - L.: DZN, 1940.

1941

Bykov B. Truth and lies. Riddle poems. (Entertaining zoology). Hood. N. Davidenkov. - L.: DZN, 1941. 12 p. 100,000 copies

Outdoor evenings of entertaining science. Popular science lectures and conversations. - L.: DZN, 1941. 40 p. 20,000 copies

House of entertaining science. To help the school. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Lengauer G. G. Map of the Moon. - L.: DZN, 1941. 10 p. 25,000 copies

Perelman Ya. I. Arithmetic puzzles. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Perelman Ya. I. Arithmetic tricks. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Perelman Ya. I. Quick count. 30 simple mental counting techniques. - L.: DZN, 1941. 5,000 copies. (djvu)

Perelman Ya. I. Geometric puzzles with matches. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Perelman Ya. I. Think of a number. Mathematical guesser. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Perelman Ya. I. Quadrature of the circle. - L.: DZN, 1941. (djvu)

Perelman Ya. I. Are you strong in arithmetic? - L.: DZN, 1941.

Perelman Ya. I. Solar eclipses. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Perelman Ya. I. Young physicist in a pioneer camp. - L.: DZN, 1941. (djvu)

Perelman Ya. I. Do I know your name? Mathematical name guesser. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Signs of the weather. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Pryanishnikov V.I. Traveling around the globe. - L.: DZN, 1941. 20 p. 100,000 copies

Know how to navigate. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Videos

In a world of miracles. Newsreel "Pioneerism". 1936, No. 1.
Halls of astronomy and physics. Soyuzkinozhurnal. April 13, 1939, No. 34.
From the depths of centuries. Newsreel "Pioneerism". 1941, no. 7.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

I have no idea how Kamsky managed to create the DZN. But, as soon as it got back on its feet, the House turned into a self-supporting institution that did not receive subsidies from anyone, but grew and generated considerable income.

The “tentacles” of the House of Entertaining Science extended far beyond its borders. The House staff diligently “exported” entertaining science. DZN lecturers B.I. Eluferyev, E.P. Khalfin, F.Ya. Sobol and others often spoke at enterprises, schools, and military units. There were more than fifty clubs in the DZN, in which students from different schools studied. Mathematical, physical and geographical olympiads, competitions, and debates were regularly held. In the district Houses of Pioneers and Schoolchildren, corners of the Children's Education Society were set up.

His courtyard was also a “preface” to the DZN. A wide stripe of white enamel paint was applied directly from the magnificent cast-iron grille of the gate onto the pavement. At its end, near the front door, they placed a stone column with a sign: “The House of Entertaining Science’s own meridian. Coordinates: 59°57" north latitude, 30° 19" east. longitude".

DZN promoted science in a playful way, most of the exhibits were interactive and visual (Galton board, Grokhovsky catapult, wind tunnel, Maxwell pendulum, two-meter model of a rocket “based on Tsiolkovsky’s own sketch”).

Exhibits, in Perelman’s deep conviction, should be accessible to the visitor; they can be touched, examined from all sides, delved into their structure, clearly seen their design and meaningfully worked with them. Exhibits and devices should not have categorical inscriptions: “Do not touch with your hands!”, “Do not go beyond the fence!” .

Lengauer G. G. Movable map of the northern starry sky. - L.: DZN, 1939.

Perelman Ya. I. Perpetual motion machines. Why are they impossible? - L.: DZN, 1939.

House of entertaining science. Outdoor evenings of entertaining science. (Popular science lectures and conversations.) 1940-41 - L.: DZN, 1940.

Mamaev G.N., Pavlov E. 10 problems about an airplane. - L.: DZN, 1940. 20 p. 100,000 copies

Perelman Ya. I. Find the error. (Geometric sophisms). - L.: DZN, 1940.

Perelman Ya. I. With one stroke. (Drawing figures with one continuous line). - L.: DZN, 1940.

Uspensky L.V. What does your name mean? Dictionary of names. - L.: DZN, 1940.

Perelman Ya. I. Geometric puzzles with matches. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Perelman Ya. I. Think of a number. Mathematical guesser. - L.: DZN, 1941.

Perelman Ya. I. Do I know your name? Mathematical name guesser. - L.: DZN, 1941.

There has already been material on “Military Review” about Yakov Isidorovich Perelman, a talented “unscientific scientist”, popularizer of science, author of wonderful textbooks “Entertaining Mathematics”, “Entertaining Physics” and many others. However, the main emphasis in this material was on the biography of Yakov Isidorovich. But I wrote rather sparingly about his main brainchild - the House of Entertaining Sciences in Leningrad. But this museum, which was destroyed during the siege, was a real treasure of knowledge, presented with talent, if not genius, to children and adults.

There is a version that the idea of creating such an unusual museum came to Perelman in 1925, when he appeared in court as an expert. They considered the case of locomotive driver Mikryukov: he hit a cow that accidentally wandered onto a railway embankment. The driver claimed that he did everything for emergency braking, but for an unknown reason the train traveled significantly longer than the expected braking distance. They did not believe Mikryukov; they believed that he had committed unforgivable negligence and was now giving false testimony. And then Perelman was given the floor. He placed a board with billiard balls on the judge's table - a kind of model of a freight train. Perelman proved that during the formation of the train the load was distributed incorrectly, concentrating it in the tail, which is why the braking slowed down. “It is not Mikryukov who should be judged, but Newton’s second law!” - Perelman said then. The experience was so graphic and convincing that the charge was unanimously dropped at that very moment.

Here is how Yakov Isidorovich wrote about the museum: “Not everyone knows how to find something new in the old, and not everyone is inclined to think deeply about what is constantly happening before their eyes. To draw attention to such everyday phenomena, it is necessary to show new, unexpected sides to them. A similar method of promoting scientific knowledge was the basis of a unique educational institution - the House of Entertaining Science...”

The House was located in the former palace of Count Sheremetyev - a large beautiful building, which for six years became a source of wonders for children and adults (however, for the first few months the museum was located in a pavilion on Elagin Island in the Central Cultural Park). The museum opened its doors in the summer of 1934. At first there were about two dozen exhibits. But already in the fall of 1935 - more than three hundred and fifty, and soon - more than five hundred.

“Distant countries, vanished forest
And the depths of frosty Siberia
You will be shown in the House of Wonders,
Fontanka, thirty-four! -

read the bright poster. And next to it is another:

"When it's midnight in Honolulu,
It's midday in Leningrad.
At this hour in Leningrad,
Fontanka, 34,
Doors open daily
Houses of entertaining science,
In which they will tell you
About time, about earth, about sky,
About numbers. About color, about sound
And about many other things."

And from the gate bars there is a wide white stripe. Own meridian!

The first place tourists visited was the waiting room and amateur scientific activities. “Please touch as much as you like!” - read the inscriptions on exhibits and installations.

Visitors were greeted by a wonderful mirror. You approach him, and you see someone else’s mustachioed face. Here is a simple law in action: the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.

In a glass beaker, tied with a rubber film, a devil diver moved in the water. They offered to look at their feet through small binoculars. At the same time - lo and behold! - as soon as you tried to take a step with one leg, the second one immediately rose on its own.

In the astronomy hall, visitors made an almost real flight in a model of a starship (made according to the design of K.E. Tsiolkovsky). In one of the compartments of the starship there were... fresh vegetables. Tsiolkovsky believed that every spaceship should have its own garden, where vegetables and herbs would begin to grow despite the lack of gravity. At the entrance to the spaceship there is a poster with Byron's poems:
Newton's road
Suffering was relieved by heavy oppression;
Since then, many discoveries have been made.
And surely we will go to the moon someday
Thanks to the couples, let's pave the way...

The guys could compare the sizes of the planets of the solar system, but how unusual! For example, watermelon and millet grain are the Sun and the Earth.
Everyone was amazed at the huge (5.5 meters in diameter) artificial sky with planets and stars. In the summer there was a “three-penny planetarium” in the garden - by the way, the first in Leningrad. The refractor was donated to the House of Sciences by the Pulkovo Observatory. A circle of young astronomers also worked here. The guys observed lunar mountains and craters, Saturn's rings, star clusters, nebulae.

In the mathematics department, guests were greeted by ordinary commercial scales, which guessed the name of one of the six planned writers. Using a light display, a stuffed eagle owl with open wings suggested guessing a three-digit number, then performing several arithmetic operations with it, and without error reported the “secret.”

There were many problems in poetry. Eg...
Having split into two parties,
The monkeys were having fun.
Part eight of them squared
She frolicked merrily in the grove.
Scream joyfully twelve
The air was fresh.
Together how much, you tell me,
Were there monkeys in that grove?

What about the ceiling? Dark blue with yellow circles, it represented a visual million. Everyone asked: how are the painters not tired of drawing and counting so much? But the matter was arranged differently: Perelman ordered blue wallpaper with yellow polka dots. The order clearly stated that 250 square meters would need to be covered, each with exactly four thousand peas. They made a cliche and used it to print it at the factory.

On the wall in the same room hung a table “Millions in the Five-Year Plan”: how many meters of fabrics, pairs of shoes, hats are planned for production... And also the inscription: “From the beginning of our era to the opening of the House of Entertaining Science, not another million days have passed "

A plaster frieze of seven hundred and seven digits visually represented the number “pi” (in those years it was the longest version of the number). On the stand there is a poem in German. By the number of letters in each word, one could recognize digit by digit of pi. This made 25 decimal places. There was also a Russian version, however, it gave only ten characters: “Whoever, jokingly and soon, wants to know the number - already knows. In numbers it is: 3.1415826525.

Geography Hall. Here, under the ceiling, a globe (diameter - 4 meters) slowly rotated - this is how a person who rose 45 thousand kilometers into outer space would see our Earth.

Colored panels are mounted on the walls of the hall depicting what happens in different parts of the planet when it is noon in Leningrad (remember the verses on the poster: “When midnight comes in Honolulu...” Their author and the author of the exhibitions in this hall is L.V. Uspensky). One of the panels - “Evening on the Nile” - with a cunning woman. Truth and lies are mixed here. Canoes, birches, and orangutans on them, in the river - a crocodile, a hippopotamus and a walrus, on the shore - an ostrich, a tiger and a penguin. There is a poster with poems on the wall. An old sailor tells a young one about his journey through “the country where the winding Nile flows.” They were asked to guess what is true and what is fiction in the lines.

One could see a model of the Earth as it was imagined in the old days, standing on elephants, turtles and whales. The map of the Kola Peninsula was called “Treasure Peninsula Map”. It flashed with multi-colored lights - deposits of iron, nickel, and apatite sparkled.

The task in the models, remarkable in its wit, is “Bridges of Leningrad”. Here, a part of the city with seventeen bridges appeared before the guests. It was necessary to go through everything, but at the same time not repeat anywhere. Only those who knew the geometric rule of drawing broken lines with one continuous line could cope with the task.

Or an unusual exhibition about the geological past of the Leningrad region. The tourists sat down on piano chairs and the lights in the hall were turned off. Dioramas on the walls flashed one by one, chairs turned in this direction. It turned out to be a kind of trip in a time machine.

Physics Hall. At different ends of this hall there were parabolic mirrors. If you say a phrase in a whisper near one of them, it will sound louder in the focus of the second. If you light a match near one, in the focus of the other it will light itself.

“Drink to your health!” - read the inscription on the sign above the small fountain. But if you lean over it, the stream will dry up. The falling shadow obscured the beam of light falling on the photocell. And he set the faucet in motion.

The guide suggested putting needles in a glass of water so that it would float. Nothing worked - the needles sank. But you rub them between your fingers and everything is fine. As a clue, there hung nearby a large photograph of a water gauge and a painting of sailors caught in a storm pouring oil overboard in an attempt to cope with the elements.

The famous puzzle about what is heavier: a kilogram of lead or fluff, was born precisely from Perelman. The brilliant popularizer of science knew that people often confuse the concepts of weight and mass.

The panel depicted the heroes of Krylov’s famous fable: a swan, a crayfish and a pike. According to her, “things are still there.” But Perelman convincingly argued that this simply cannot be, because Ivan Andreevich did not take into account the force of gravity.

The tour of this hall ended with a room of optical wonders. Children and adults stood in front of the screen and saw their shadow. They walked away from the screen, and the shadow seemed to stick to it. The portrait of a girl in the world, depending on the lighting, either cried or smiled. The guide changed the color of the lamp - and one picture turned into another, completely different from the first. The chairs also changed their color: sometimes they were green with stains, sometimes red...

And now - about the authors of this wonderful museum. The first, of course, is Perelman - the ideological inspirer, the “soul”. He seemed to never get tired, and along with taking care of the museum, he managed to publish his famous books and even respond to correspondence that came in tons (in the books, Perelman indicated his home address). When the Great Patriotic War began, Yakov Isidorovich, due to his age, could not go to the front.
On June 29, 1941, the museum closed, but the “unlearned scientist” did not abandon his educational activities. He gave lectures and instructions on the training of military intelligence officers. I have developed several topics on orienteering in unfamiliar areas in any weather, without using any technical means. To give these lectures to people, he had to walk, and sometimes very far. It happened that during the journey there was a bombing, and then Perelman gave lectures right in the bomb shelter - to those who were there at that moment. When his strength was completely exhausted, Yakov Isidorovich advised people by telephone, but in early January 1942, a shell explosion destroyed a street telephone cabinet. And on March 16, 1942, Perelman died of exhaustion...

The director of the museum, Viktor Alekseevich Kamsky, is a former army political worker, a philosopher by training (he worked at the Leningrad Visual Agitation and Propaganda Plant). It was to him that Yakov Isidorovich came when the creation of the House was only a dream. Viktor Alekseevich picked up the idea “on the fly.” A talented financier, a rare organizer, he did not value distances when it came to actually finding something. So, one day someone told Viktor Alekseevich that on the outskirts of Leningrad there lived an old man who had a wooden clock. Kamsky traveled all over the city, but found the old man.
In the first days of the war, Kamsky became a volunteer. He served on the Volkhov Front and died in March 1942.

Lev Vasilyevich Uspensky - linguist, philologist, publicist, translator, inventor of funny poems and posters. He led excursions in the geography hall - however, not for the entire six years of the museum’s existence, since he became the head of the scientific and educational department of the Koster magazine.

But, by his own admission, “he was no more than a couple of kilometers from the House,” and always helped with advice and deeds. Lev Vasilyevich also volunteered for the war, and with the rank of quartermaster of the third rank of the fleet, he was sent to the Kronstadt coastal posts. He also worked as a war correspondent. In January 1943, he was sent to the right bank of the Neva and took part in breaking the blockade. Uspensky went through the entire war, returned to Leningrad and published his most famous book, “A Word about Words,” excerpts from which, fortunately, are still used in Russian language textbooks (I saw it myself and was happy).

Vasily Iosifovich Pryanishnikov - astronomer, professor, popularizer of entertaining geography and cosmogony, teacher at the Leningrad Higher Naval School, lieutenant colonel. K.E. Tsiolkovsky liked his book “Entertaining World Studies” so much that he wrote Pryanishnikov a letter: “Dear friend! I will never forget your services in disseminating the ideas of astronomy...” by the beginning of the war he was fifty years old. But Vasily Iosifovich still went to the front and went through the entire war. He devoted the post-war years to pedagogical and methodological work, writing scientific and entertaining articles, brochures, books for children and adults.

Alexander Yakovlevich Malkov is the main artist of the House of Entertaining Sciences. When the museum was just being created, Alexander Yakovlevich entered the building in which there were visitors to the Arctic Research Institute. Having carefully studied the materials about future exhibits, he stood in each room, looked around, was silent for several minutes, and then announced: “This is geography! This is physics! The visitors looked around in surprise, not understanding anything.
Alexander Yakovlevich also volunteered in the first days of the war. Remained alive.
Oh, how many miracles there would be today in the House of Entertaining Sciences...

In the city of Kazan there is a wonderful place where everyone can not only get to know physics better, but even touch it. In the House of Entertaining Science and Technology, visitors will find fascinating exhibitions on scientific topics.

This institution is aimed primarily at children whose young minds are in search of new facts and information about this world. Physics is precisely the science that describes all the principles and laws associated with matter and interaction with it. There are no prohibitions here that traditionally limit the capabilities of the younger generation: in this place you can not only touch everything with your hands, but even climb some of the exhibits.

Thanks to this interactive center, you can instill an interest and love for science in your child. During the interaction, children are completely immersed in the world of physics. Here they will find visual information about phenomena and effects: magnetism, optical illusions, mechanics and electricity, technology and much more. A child can rediscover the laws of chemistry and physics not only on the pages of a textbook, but also in real life, by performing all the experiments and tests with his own hands.

At the House of Technology in Kazan, guests will find children's clubs for all ages, a training center, an interactive museum, and a team of professional and enthusiastic guides. This is the only institution of its kind for children in the city of Kazan, which has a purely scientific and experimental bias. Everything that is necessary to instill in children a love of knowledge and science is collected here.

Prices at the House of Entertaining Sciences in Kazan in 2019

Cost of visit:

entrance ticket to the exhibition hall for adults - 200 rubles;
entrance ticket to the exhibition hall for children under 16 years old - 350 rubles;
visiting the show - 250 rubles for children from 3 to 16 years old and adults;
comprehensive program - 300 rubles for adults;
comprehensive program - 500 rubles for children under 16 years old;
Children under three years of age enter completely free of charge.

The museum offers benefits for WWII veterans, liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, combatants, disabled people of groups I, II and III, large families and pensioners.

The price of the master class is 250 rubles. Renting a room will cost 12,000 rubles + an additional 250 rubles for each child, accompanying adults are free. The rental time is 2.5 hours.

A birthday celebration will cost 8 thousand rubles if the number of guests does not exceed 10 people, then 500 rubles per child. The rental duration is also limited to 2.5 hours. Every additional 30 minutes will cost 1 thousand rubles.

Excursions in the House of Entertaining Science and Technology

The Kazan House of Entertaining Sciences is great for visiting with the whole family. Unlike other museums, you are allowed to touch the exhibits with your hands. The guides will be happy to tell guests about the principle of operation of a particular specimen, scientific aspects and the significance in life of the physical effect on the basis of which the exhibit is built. The staff of the establishment works to present information in accessible language. The rooms have their own special atmosphere, which encourages children to communicate and interact with the guides. Each scientific and entertainment program is individually selected according to the age of the guests. Demonstration of experiments and shows is always a unique spectacle, so visiting this establishment is always interesting, even repeatedly.

Visitors will never get bored at this interactive museum, with themed exhibits and entertaining, scientific approaches from the guides. The exhibition includes 50 stands and exhibits, where everyone can personally conduct physical experiments and perform real experiments. To help guests, there is an instruction manual with tips and descriptions near each stand. Visitors can touch any design elements of the exhibits; it is absolutely safe and interesting. Here you can spend time not only very fun, but also usefully.

The museum has not only a lot of exhibitions, but even a separate “Black Room”, where every visitor can imagine himself as the real god of the sky - Zeus.

In it, adults and children with their own hands will be able to “throw lightning” and “spew out thunder” in the literal sense of these phrases. Local guides are more than just ordinary physics teachers from school. Working as a guide here is much more difficult, since every day you have to answer hundreds of children’s questions that begin with the words “Why?” It is because of this that the House of Entertaining Science and Technology was founded in Kazan to tell the younger generation about all the physical phenomena that they may encounter in this life. Such an exciting excursion may help push young schoolchildren to choose the right direction of development. It is quite possible that one day someone within the walls of this institution will promise himself to become a new outstanding scientist in the field of physics or chemistry.

The format of the excursion is very non-standard. There is no specific program repeated day after day. Representatives of higher education institutions, consultants, guides and tour guides follow visitors, rather than leading them around the hall. Thus, guests can find out detailed information about exactly the object that is really interesting to them. In the House of Science and Technology in Kazan you can understand the principles of such phenomena: mirage, acoustic wave, optical effect and much more. Surprising your child with non-standard and useful entertainment means helping him understand how this world works.

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Events

The establishment hosts thematic educational master classes, a variety of scientific show programs, holidays and other events where guests can feel like real scientists. Programs are constantly updated and improved to delight visitors to the interactive exhibition. The House of Entertaining Technology in Kazan easily combines entertainment and science, allowing children to master various phenomena, physical processes and effects in a playful manner.

Those interested can rent halls for holding festive events. Never before has a child's birthday been so much fun! Here the kids can not only have fun, but also learn a lot of new things. There is also something for adults to do; a whole group can come here to have an interesting time and learn something useful at the same time. Guests of all ages will find interesting exhibitions for themselves. is located 1.5 kilometers from the museum.

You can get there from there or from any part of the city comfortably by Taxi"Soyuz", Taxiline, "NWT Let's Go" or by ordering a car through the Gett, Yandex taxi, Uber, Maxim taxi applications.

We went to the House of Entertaining Science and Technology museum in Kazan. This is an analogue of the St. Petersburg “Umnikum”, as well as a bunch of imported “source codes”. A museum where you can clearly see the operation of physical laws. And, most importantly, you can touch and “run” the exhibits yourself.

The museum is designed for children 7-12 years old, an age at which it is possible to painlessly interest children in physics, and then future lessons at school will not be too abstract for the children (as in the end it was with me all the way). The museum, of course, is inferior to the capital’s in terms of richness and volume, but the organizers are great, and it’s worth taking children to the “House.”

You can walk around the museum on your own or on a guided tour, or you can take part in the performances of the “professors” (all this is discussed in museum group on VKontakte).

Address: Kazan, Gabdulla Tukay St., 91, House of Culture "Mekhovshchikov"
Working hours: daily from 10.00-19.00, Thursday from 10.00 - 20.00
Telephone: 250-00-30
Website: https://vk.com/science_house
Cost of visiting the museum: 200 rub. (children), 250 rub. (adults), on the show other prices.

The museum is located in the right wing of the Mekhovshchikov Palace of Culture and occupies two small halls. At first it seems that it costs nothing to get around them. But the impression is deceptive - we (the bulk of our group of three people was my husband’s seven-year-old daughter) spent at least 2.5 hours in the museum. In addition, we visited the “House” in the middle of a weekday and became the only visitors (on weekends, most likely, there will be many groups of schoolchildren).

First, the lovely girls-guides showed some of the exhibits and explained how to use them, and then we walked around on our own: we spun around in a mirrored cabin, in a dark room - we controlled a laser, looked at an old jet plane, lifted ourselves into the air, blew huge soap bubbles, ran from corner to corner in Ames's room and so on. Below is a photo report on some objects (I hope I won’t spoil anyone =)):

1. Fragment of the hall. On the left is a mirrored cabin.

2. The walls are occupied by posters with optical illusions or various things with educational comments (for example, a vintage calculator).

3. On the right is a musical device.

4. By hitting the pipes with plugs, you can extract a melody from it. Even the "notes" (pipe numbers) are provided.

5. And here is an ordinary piano. But with a transparent wall, all processes become visible.

6. In the foreground is a frame for making a soap bubble (a child is placed in the center and surrounded by a bubble). There is a wheel with handles on the wall - feel the centrifugal force.