Established 1987 (1987) Type Technology museum Phone +380 412 472 627 | Location Zhytomir, Ukraine Website www.cosmosmuseum.info | |
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Former name Zhytomir Sergei Pavlovich Korolov Museum of Cosmonauts Director Irina Dmitrievna Dyachuk Address вул. Івана Франка, 22, Zhytomyr, Ukraine Hours Open today · 10AM–5:15PMThursday10AM–5:15PMFriday10AM–5:15PMSaturday10AM–5:15PMSunday10AM–5:15PMMondayClosedTuesday10AM–5:15PMWednesday10AM–5:15PMSuggest an edit Similar Skała Głowa Czackiego, Zhytomyr Nature Museum, Zhytomyr Literary Museum, Monument to construct, St Sophia's Cathedral | ||
The Sergei Pavlovich Korolov Museum of Cosmonauts (Ukrainian name: Музей космонавтики імені Сергія Павловича Корольова) is a technology museum in Zhytomir, Ukraine dedicated to Sergei Korolev. Korolov led the Sputnik project and was Chief engineer for the Soviet Union's rocket and space program from the late 1950s until his death in 1966. He was born in Zhytomir, then part of the Russian Empire.
In 1970, the house in which Korolov was born was dedicated as a memorial to him, a campus of the Zhytomir Regional Museum. The museum achieved independent status in 1987, and the present museum building was constructed in 1991.
The museum houses around 11,000 exhibits related to rocket and space exploration, including the Soyuz 27 descent module, a small sample of lunar soil, full-size replacas of a complete Soyuz spacecraft, the Vostok 1 descent module, and the Lunokhod 2 lunar rover. From 2013, 2.5 million visitors have passed through the museum's doors.