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January 28 Moscow Transport Museum is celebrating its sixth anniversary – during this time, more than 1.2 million people have visited exhibitions, festivals, lectures, master classes and excursions.
"This year, the Moscow Transport Museum celebrates its sixth anniversary. During this time, more than 1.2 million people have visited its exhibitions and events. The museum preserves the city's urban transport heritage, explores its contemporary development, restores and preserves exhibits, organizes exhibitions, publishes books, and conducts research and educational work. I congratulate the museum staff on this occasion. We will continue to delight city residents with exciting projects and events," said the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry.
As of early 2026, the museum's collection contained more than 300 pieces of historical equipment and over 1,400 unique artifacts. Over the past six years, 30 vehicles and 95 artifacts have undergone repair and restoration. Among the restored exhibits are the world's only surviving "V" subway car, a TBES-VSKhV trolleybus, and a unique SVARZ crane platform. The museum also continues to develop capsule collections within its collection, including collections of taxis and ambulances, fire trucks and trucks, station wagons, bicycles, and more.
Since last year, the museum has also been working on creating an archival and library center—an information retrieval system and supercatalog that will unite the museum's archives, libraries, and collections in a digital space. Every year, the collection is replenished with thousands of new archival files and books.
"The museum was created as a magnet for anyone interested in the city and its history. We've expanded beyond the confines of a classic exhibition space: today, the Moscow Transport Museum is a vibrant ecosystem with educational projects, children's workshops, lectures, and tours. We're growing and becoming bolder in our projects, while maintaining a caring and reverent attitude toward every detail of the past," emphasized Oksana Bondarenko, Director of the Moscow Transport Museum.
The museum's flagship venue is Pavilion No. 26, "Transport of the USSR," at VDNKh, where landmark exhibitions such as "A Muscovite's Dream" (140,000 visitors) and "You Are Here. Always. Today. The Day After Tomorrow" (85,000 visitors) have been held. Currently, the exhibition "You Look Your Best!" (140,000 visitors) is open there, dedicated to the history of Russian transport design, as well as an exhibition as part of the new project "Moscow Transport Museum Collectors' Club."
The museum's tour bureau is growing and expanding its programs. Today, tours are offered not only at exhibitions but also around the city: in the metro, at the Northern and Southern River Terminals, and, starting in the fall of 2025, on regular river electric boats. In partnership with the State Public Institution "Transport Organizer," tours have been launched on the Novospassky-ZIL and ZIL-Southern River Terminal routes.
The first Retroreis festival took place in 2022, bringing together tens of thousands of people passionate about transport culture every year since. Furthermore, since 2023, the city's "Night at the Museum" event has included the "Tour of Cultures" rally, featuring the capital's largest museums.
Over the past six years, the museum's publishing department has established itself as a reputable specialist publisher of popular science literature on transportation. A total of 13 books have been published, including collection and exhibition catalogs, children's titles, and fiction. In 2025, the museum's books received 16 awards, including a laureate diploma from the national "Book of the Year" award in the Non-Fiction category for the catalog "Buses."
The Moscow Transport Museum is an open urban space and a vibrant research center that answers the important question: what makes Moscow tick? The museum's collection includes over 250 passenger cars, trucks, taxis, buses, trolleybuses, city service vehicles, bicycles, and motorcycles. Exhibits from the museum's collection can be seen at exhibitions and at various locations throughout the city's transportation infrastructure.
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