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Travelling with children who ask too many questions about life, the universe and
everything? Here is a place that provides answers for them to ponder for a while. Experi-
mentanium is an exciting place where children learn physics, chemistry, mechanics, acous-
tics, anatomy and whatnot by playing, and indeed experimenting, with a vast number of in-
teractive exhibits.
An English-language excursion costs a whooping R4500, so you might set an experiment
on yourself by measuring how much secondary-school material is still deposited in your
head and serving as your child's own guide into the world of science.
MUSEUM
CENTRAL MUSEUM OF THE ARMED FORCES
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 495-681 6303; www.cmaf.ru ; ul Sovetskoy Armii 2; adult/student R120/60;
10am-4.30pm Wed-Sun; Novoslobodskaya)
Covering the history of the Soviet and Russian military since 1917, this massive museum
occupies 24 exhibit halls plus open-air exhibits. Over 800,000 military items, including uni-
forms, medals and weapons, are on display. Among the highlights are remainders of the
American U2 spy plane (brought down in the Urals in 1960) and the victory flag raised over
Berlin's Reichstag in 1945. Take trolleybus 69 (or walk) 1.3km east from the Novoslobod-
skaya metro.
MUSEUM
DOSTOEVSKY HOUSE-MUSEUM
(- MAP GOOGLE MAP ;
495-681 1085; ul Dostoevskogo 2; adult/student R150/50;
11am-6pm
Thu, Sat & Sun, 2-7pm Wed & Fri; Novoslobodskaya)
Though this renowned Russian author is more closely associated with St Petersburg, Fyodor
Dostoevsky was actually born in Moscow, where his family lived in a tiny apartment on the
grounds of Marinsky Hospital. He lived here until the age of 16, when he went to St Peters-
burg to enter a military academy. The family's Moscow flat has been re-created according to
descriptions written by Fyodor's brother.
Visitors can see the family's library, toys and many other personal items, including Fy-
odor's quill pen, an original autograph and a wooden chest with vaulted cover he slept on
during his childhood, which clearly contributed to the writer's view of the world as a place
full of pain. In addition to this, the house stood next to a morgue and asylum that received
beggars and madmen from all over the city.
From Novoslobodskaya metro station, walk east on Seleznevskaya ul and turn left on per
Dostoevskogo.
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