8 most interesting museums in Moscow for children's birthdays

Spending a child's birthday at a museum is a good idea if you want the day to be not only memorable, but also educational.

The most interesting museums in Moscow for children, which are worth visiting not only on their birthday, are in this selection.

There are many, many options for a children’s birthday besides museums in this mega-material.

The museum is a separate, wonderful world, lovingly collected from exhibits. Each museum has its own atmosphere, rules for selecting exhibitions, themes, and audiences. Museum staff and tour guides are often very passionate about their topic and have interesting stories to tell.

What to look for when choosing a museum

For a children's party, it is better to choose a museum that you know and that the child likes. Children feel more comfortable in a familiar place.
Check the exact location of the holiday and access to the museum exhibition for guests. The Darwin Museum is large, you will need time to find the gathering place.
Having a dedicated room for tea drinking is a big plus. It is important that your acquaintance with the museum is not limited to this room.
Find out if you need to bring treats for children and parents. Create an accurate menu, this will help avoid disappointment and complaints from hungry and tired children.
Museums are more interesting than cafes and restaurants in terms of their surroundings and stories. But they usually suffer greatly in terms of nutritional quality. Take the initiative.
Be sure to order the services of a photographer if they are not included in the program. Game photographs in the museum’s interiors will take their rightful place in family albums.

The Pushkin Museum: a special course on antiquity and a series of meetings on choosing a future profession

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The “Pushkinsky.Youth” direction unites all programs of the Pushkin Museum for young people. It includes lectures, creative projects, and workshops.

Teenagers from 14 to 19 years old can take part in the School of preparation for the Pushkinsky.Youth conference. The school’s specialists will teach them to express their thoughts succinctly and clearly, and to publicly present ideas. Participants will be able to apply this knowledge at a youth interdisciplinary conference, which will be held at the Pushkin Museum in February 2022.

The museum also organized a series “Who to be or not to be?” — meetings with scientists, journalists, publishers and other specialists in the field of culture. They will tell you how they chose their profession and answer questions from guests.

The Pushkin Museum also conducts a special course for children on ancient culture “Man is the measure of all things.” Its participants will learn more about the way of life, religion and philosophy of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

Experimentanium

Address: street. Butyrskaya, 46/2. Phone: Section on the website: https://www.experimentanium.ru/birthday/ The cost of the program with a quest for a group of up to 15 children with 2 adult companions from 12,000 rubles. You can order additional science shows and master classes. Age: the celebration will be interesting for children from 6 to 14 years old .

The Museum of Entertaining Sciences offers exciting show programs, quests, and celebrations with a banquet in the museum’s three-level cafe. The main activity of the museum is the popularization of science and fascinating excursions to the inventions of the past, scientific experiments, and spectacular demonstrations of the capabilities of science.

Pros and features:

After completing the program, you can freely visit the museum exhibition.
Sign up in advance, the museum has a very tight schedule with registration 2 months in advance.
The cafe menu includes hot dishes, pizzas from 360 rubles, chicken and vegetable kebabs, and set offers.
Tables in the common room can be reserved for 1 hour.
The museum cafe accepts orders for birthday cakes.
You can bring your own cake provided you pay the minimum amount for the banquet.
To celebrate in a separate room, you must pay for an order of at least 10 people at 800 rubles per person.

Lights of Moscow

Address: Armenian lane 3-5, building 1 Telephone: Section on the website: https://www.ognimos.ru/excursions Cost 10,000 rubles for a group of 12 people. If the number of participants increases, an additional payment of 200 rubles is required for each additional person. Age: For children's birthday parties, the museum offers 3 main programs: for children from 3 to 12 years old , for kindergarten age and for children from 10 to 12 years old . The program for older children includes painting candlesticks and writing with a real quill pen.

The duration of the holiday program is 2 -2.5 hours.

The main theme of the museum is devoted to the history of lighting and the work of lamplighters. Fascinating master classes on making candles and various lamps, as well as historical retrospectives, are held. In the programs, children will be told about methods of making fire and methods of lighting rooms and streets in various historical eras.

pros:

A cozy atmosphere imbued with the theatrical magic of light
Lots of interactive programs
A fun educational activity, dancing, handicrafts, learning ancient crafts
There is an opportunity to have tea in the museum

Peculiarities:

The museum provides the kettle and cups; you must take care of disposable tableware and napkins yourself.
You can bring your own holiday food and drinks. According to reviews, the most thoughtful option for organizing hot meals for children is ordering pizza for delivery.
According to reviews, low alcohol is allowed for adults.

MAMM: creative master classes and a course on avant-garde art

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Every weekend, thematic master classes for children are held in the creative studio of the Multimedia Art Museum. Together with the teachers, participants draw, paint, and sculpt figures from plasticine. The “Space Game” master class based on the works of artist Sergei Shutov invites you to create your own game, come up with a setting, rules and characters for it. And at the “Assemblage” master class, children will get acquainted with the work of Nikita Alekseev and make colorful compositions from scrap materials.

Also, the museum, together with the FUNART Kids School of Contemporary Arts, has prepared a course “Children in the Vanguard.” From his program, children will learn about different types of avant-garde art and begin to learn English. In addition, MAMM has two more educational courses for children: “30 masterpieces of world art” and “The Art of the Renaissance. A great era and great names."

Museum of Animation

Address: Armenian lane 3-5, building 1 Telephone: Section on the website: https://www.ognimos.ru/excursions Address : All-Russian Exhibition Center, pavilion 84a Phone : +7 910 438-0804 Section on the website : https:// animamuseum.ru/birthday The cost of the program is 10-20 thousand rubles, depending on the day of the program and the choice of program. When choosing the economy option, the duration of the holiday is reduced to 75 minutes while maintaining all the main points of the program.

The total time of the festive program in the museum is 2.5 hours.

Age: The excursion will be interesting for children from 5 to 14 years old .

The museum offers an opportunity to get acquainted with the history and technology of creating cartoons. The holiday program includes an exciting excursion, creating your own cartoon and then watching it while drinking tea.

During the celebration of the DR, video filming is allowed !

Pros:

Thoughtful interactive programs for children.
The tea party is complemented by animation with a beautiful cake taking out.
Gifts for all participants of the holiday.
The housekeeping part is well thought out, the cost of the program includes napkins, disposable tableware, it is possible to use water coolers, a microwave, a kettle, and a coffee machine. There are cutting boards for cutting sandwiches and knives.

Peculiarities:

Postponement of the holiday time when paying in advance is allowed 1 time under force majeure circumstances.
The Museum reserves the right to cancel unpaid reservations.
You are allowed to bring food and prepared meals for the holiday with you.
It is allowed to bring champagne or wine for adults, no more than 2 bottles.
It is possible to order additional animation; you can invite additional actors and even the museum director to the holiday.

Historical Museum

The birthday celebration program consists of a theatrical excursion through the halls of the museum and a festive meal in the traditions of the 16-17 centuries. During the excursion, children play ancient Russian games and fun; learn what their names mean; how name days were celebrated in Rus'; who are godparents? The tour is conducted by the “tsar”, “princess” and “boyars”. You can celebrate a birthday in the museum only on Saturdays at 15.00 or on Fridays at 14.30.

from 7 to 11 years

Space Museum

Address: Armenian lane 3-5, building 1 Telephone: Section on the website: https://www.ognimos.ru/excursions Address : All-Russian Exhibition Center, pavilion 84a Phone : +7 910 438-0804 Section on the website : Address: Prospekt Mira , no. 111 Telephone Section of the site : https://www.kosmo-museum.ru/birthdays The cost of the program is 7-14 thousand rubles, depending on the chosen program and the time of the event.

Age : The museum offers several different programs for different age groups - 7-12 years old , 4-8 years old . The average time of the holiday program is from 1.15 to 2 hours 45 minutes.

For children who are in love with the romance of space, there is an opportunity to spend a birthday party at the Museum of Cosmonautics. In the program, the birthday boy becomes the commander of a spaceship and leads his team through the expanses of space full of secrets and mysteries. An educational tour with a quiz about the Solar System and the base block of the Mir station.

Pros:

Educational quizzes and quests.
Photos in astronaut suits.
There is an attraction "Buran" with a complete flight simulation.
High-quality animation.
An opportunity to touch the real history of space exploration.
Personalized certificates from the Museum of Cosmonautics for birthday people.

Peculiarities:

The museum is very busy; book your space trip in advance.
The children's cafe is common to all groups. Separate places are allocated for each group.
Food and excursion program are paid separately.
According to reviews, children really praise the space-made pizza.
Group restrictions are up to 15 people.
It is possible to submit online applications for the holiday.

Review of options to celebrate a child's birthday in a museum.

When choosing a place to celebrate your child’s birthday, you should not limit yourself to cafes and entertainment centers. A holiday at the museum is a great way to combine fun and gentle learning for children of any age, taking into account their thematic interests. Palace of Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye

Fairy tales were the Kolomna Palace In the interior exhibition of the palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, children will not only get acquainted with Russian culture and history of the 17th century, but will also be able to feel like real characters of that time who visited this fairy-tale palace. Some of the children will become Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov during the excursion part of the program, some will become boyars and royal bells, some will be lucky enough to try on the roles of the royal sons - Fyodor Alekseevich and Peter I. Our heroes will put on stylized historical costumes, which will help both themselves and their classmates to completely immerse themselves in the atmosphere of that era: for them the Kolomna Palace will come to life. But fairy tales always go along with true stories. But the children will learn what tale the palace will tell them during the artistic part of the program.

For schoolchildren in grades 1-5 Duration – 1 hour 50 minutes.

Darwin Museum

The exhibition at the Darwin Museum is dedicated to the diversity of life on earth and the evolution of species. A birthday can be celebrated here with a large group of up to 16 children. There are five programs to choose from for schoolchildren from 6 to 13 years old. After an hour and a half excursion, there is a sweet table in the children's tea room and an independent inspection of the permanent exhibition and exhibitions.

Programs:

“Neighbors on the Planet” (7–12 years old) - an interactive excursion about the species diversity of the Earth. The children will be told about the inhabitants of the tropical forests of Asia, South America and Australia, African savannas and deep seas and oceans, and will be introduced to animals living in the extreme conditions of the Arctic and Antarctic.

“The Vanished Giants and More” (7–12 years old) - a story about the origin of life on Earth, the ancient animal world of our planet and the evolution of species. About how, more than 4 billion years ago, the Earth turned from almost uninhabited into a cozy home for all living creatures (more than a million discovered and described species on the planet alone). Life at different stages of evolution took all sorts of bizarre forms - species appeared, disappeared, and changed. The children will be explained why some species became extinct while others remained. After the excursion there will be a master class on paleontology.

“Treasures of the Tropics” (ages 6–12) - a story about insects and spiders that live in the tropics. The guides will introduce you to exotic species: huge beetles and cockroaches, strange spiders, bright and unusual butterflies. The birthday boy and his guests will learn about the habits of insects, their long and close relationship with plants and their amazing ability to adapt to their environment. You can touch many of the museum's inhabitants.

“Miracle in Feathers” (from 6 years old) is a playful educational lesson in which children learn who birds came from, what they are like, where they live, what they eat and how they feed their chicks, what parents teach their offspring. During the lesson you will be able to examine a bird's feather through a microscope, listen to bird voices and, of course, play.

“The secret of life is the living cell” (9–13 years old) - master class on microbiology in the educational laboratory. During the lesson, they will teach you how to prepare preparations for microbiological research, tell you about microscopes and their types, and help you conduct research on the cells of leaves, flowers, plant fruits, and single-celled animals. Participants will learn how ideas about the composition of living matter have changed.

Duration: excursion 1.5 hours + tea party 1 hour Age: 6–13 years Cost: from 15,300 rub. on weekdays / 15,900 rub. on weekends - 20 people (maximum 16 children); 17500 rub. – 35 people (maximum 16 children)

Museum of Russian Estate Culture

In the museum, children will be introduced to the history of Russian family holidays and told about the Slavic tradition of “naming” - how in the old days a name was given based on appearance and character traits. Then they will take you to the stables, where they will tell you about horses, their breeds and the history of the relationship between this animal and man. And the finale of the holiday will be a quiz with prizes.

Another children's program of the museum, “Angel's Day,” was created with an emphasis on the traditions of noble Russia. Here they will tell you about name days, balls and festive dinners. Guests of the holiday will be greeted by a musical fairy, and the gift will be like in the 19th century. After the excursion there is dancing and tea drinking.

Duration: 2 hours Age: 7–12 years Cost: RUB 15,500. — 15 people Additional: ride in a museum carriage 150 rub./person

Museum of History "Lefortovo"

The Lefortovo Museum has a children's room from the end of the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century. During the hike, travelers will be given backpacks and route sheets with tasks. Walking with a guide through the halls of the museum, guests will learn the history of Russia during the time of Peter I: who lived in the German Settlement, what and how they taught at school in the 17th–18th centuries, what weapons there were - and they will even be able to try on armor. As in many historical museums, they will tell you about the traditions of celebrating birthdays, and will also introduce you to some physical phenomena that in old times were considered witchcraft - magnetism, optical illusions. The program also includes dancing and tea drinking.

Museum of Russian Harmonica Alfred Mirek

The Mirek Museum will tell you about musical instruments at Russian holidays - the harmonica, button accordion and accordion. The program is costumed and interactive - children and adults will dance, sing and play. The holiday will end with tea drinking and a story about Russian tea traditions.

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes Age: from 7 years Cost: 12,000 rub. – 20 people and 1 adult

Moscow Animation Museum

The Animation Museum will give a tour of a small exhibition and show several rare cartoons, not only for entertainment, but also to inspire creativity in young guests. The main thing in the program is the filming of your cartoon with voice acting, captions and a premiere showing on the big screen. As a pleasant bonus, all guests of the holiday will be given a special computer program “Be Your Own Animator”, and at the same time will be taught how to use it, and the birthday boy will be awarded an animator diploma and a DVD with the filmed cartoon. The full birthday option also includes a cake, a congratulation from the museum’s mascot, Grandfather Cartoon, and a disco.

Duration: short program - 1 hour 15 minutes; full — 2 hours 30 minutes Age: from 1 year Cost: 18,000 rub. - short program; 21000 rub. — full program on weekdays / 25,000 rub. — full weekend program (up to 16 children and up to 10 adults)

Zoo museum

A birthday party at the Zoological Museum is a tour of the exhibition with games and competitions. The museum offers four topics to choose from: “Zoological transformer” (a conversation about the structure of the skeleton of animals and methods of movement), “Bird troubles” (various types of birds and their habits), “Sivka-Burka invites” (a story about horses and why many nations endow them with magical powers), “In the footsteps of a pirate’s circumnavigation” (a quest through the most interesting exhibits of the museum). The excursion is traditionally followed by a tea party, with parents organizing the sweet table.

Duration: excursion 1–1.5 hours + tea party 30 minutes Age: 6–11 years Cost: 14,000 rub. – up to 15 people (maximum 10 children)

Moscow Planetarium

There are two museum parts: “Lunarium” - two floors of experimental science, where you can and should play with all the exhibits and perform experiments, and the “Urania Museum”, the exhibition of which introduces the history of space research and optical instruments, talks about the Moscow Planetarium and space objects - stars, planets and meteorites. In addition, the planetarium has two unique cinemas: the “Big Star Hall” has the largest dome in Europe and a unique star projector, and the 4D cinema has a stereo projection and special effects system that allows you to plunge into virtual reality and feel, for example, falling into the abyss or flight.

For a children's party, the planetarium offers several program options. Before the start, space researchers are given special badges and caps. Additionally, you can order a photographer, face painting services and treats at the Telescope cafe.

Programs:

“Save the Planet of Knowledge” (6–9 years old) - a tour of the Lunarium and a trip to the 4D cinema. This is a quest with wizard guides who will tell you how clouds are formed, how to prove that the Earth rotates, how to light a light bulb without a socket and what a plasma ball is.

“Expedition to Distant Planets” (8–11 years old) - a tour of the Lunarium and a trip to the 4D cinema. During a space journey through the stars and other planets, guests will control the Mars rover and the cosmic wind, learn how lunar craters are formed and how much a person weighs on Pluto, Mars and Jupiter.

“Intergalactic Intelligence” (9–12 years old) - a tour of the Lunarium and a trip to the 4D cinema. Exposure assignments will be issued to the holiday team from the Mission Control Center in real time. Some tasks will require independent solution, without the help of a guide. In the planetarium, this quest is considered the most difficult and interesting.

“Star Team” (8–11 years old) - excursion to the Urania Museum and a trip to the Great Star Hall.
The museum will tell you about the history of space exploration, various optical instruments and what is already known about space: planets, asteroids and comets, distant galaxies and black holes. In the “Great Star Hall” on a huge dome with an area of more than 1000 square meters. meters will show the starry sky from different points of the Earth, including from the Southern Hemisphere, and one of the scientific films. Duration: excursion - 1 hour; 4D cinema session - 15 minutes; session in the “Big Star Hall” - 50 minutes Age: 6–12 years Cost: from 17,700 rub. (Star Team program for 5 children).

Zoological Museum of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov

Address : Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 6 Telephone Section on the website : https://zmmu.msu.ru/posetiteli/dni-rozhdeniya-v-muzee The cost of the programs is from 6,000 rubles.

The oldest museum in Moscow invites you to hold an educational and entertainment program within the museum’s walls to celebrate the child’s birthday.

Age : There are 3 main programs. For kindergarten age, a program about the diversity of the animal world. For children 6-12 years old , there is a program about bird habits with raising chicks and animal transformers about the amazing ways of movement of various animals.

Pros:

From the museum's website you can send and print an invitation to the holiday.
Additionally, you can visit the terrarium. The cost of visiting is 50 rubles for a child and 100 rubles for an adult.
After completing the program, you can independently examine the museum’s exhibition.

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center: handicraft club, art studio and basics of museum work

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For children over five years old, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center offers several programs in different areas. At the needlework club “Eye of the Needle,” children will learn different techniques for working with fabric. The Shooting Point studio will introduce you to the history of photography, teach you how to take interesting pictures and create presentations. Participants of the art studio “Dynamics of Color” will be told about the futurist movement in art and its representatives. And with the help of the interactive program “I’ll take you to the museum”, children will learn about the basics of museum work.

The museum also has a school of thinking called “Fox Tail for an Idea,” a chess club, and an educational program called “A Child Has 100 Languages,” which is based on the methodology of the Italian teacher and psychologist Loris Malaguzzi.

Darwin Museum

Address : Vavilova street, 57/1. Telephone . Section on the website : https://www.darwinmuseum.ru/section/den-rozhdeniya-v-muzee The cost of the program is from 9,000 on a weekday for a group of up to 10 people, up to 15,000 for large groups and on weekends.

The museum presents exhibitions on the origin of species. More than 10 thematic programs are offered for children, designed for various age groups from 3 to 13 years . The total time of the program with tea drinking is about 2.5 hours.

Pros:

Availability of a separate children's room.
Variety of programs and extensive exhibition, professional guides.
Possibility of an independent walk around the museum after the program.
Children's interactive labyrinth “Path of Evolution”

Peculiarities:

You must bring your own food and disposable tableware for drinking tea.
The time spent in the tea room is limited to 1 hour.
There are additional animation programs for tea parties costing 2,000 rubles.
You can take part in a master class with making a sand painting. For a DR ticket, the cost of participation with a framed painting is 200 rubles.

MUAR: course on the history of Moscow and world architecture

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State Museum of Architecture named after. A.V. Shchuseva offers an educational course “Houses of Moscow” for children aged 7–10 years, which consists of four lessons. At them, children will get acquainted with the history of architecture and learn about the features of ancient Russian chambers, city mansions and estates. Teachers from the MUAR children's center will tell schoolchildren what a runner, an enfilade and a portico are, and will offer to solve architectural problems and put together different types of paper buildings.

Also, guests of children's workshops will learn to draw in the style of cave painting, create prototypes of structures in the conceptual layout course, fold geometric shapes in “Architectural Geometry” and get acquainted with basic concepts in the series “What an Architect Needs to Know.” In addition, educational courses “How architecture became modern”, “How they lived in Ancient Rus'”, “How they lived in the Middle Ages” await young participants.

Falconry Museum

Address : Moscow region, Mytishchi district, p/o Troitskoye, village Lesparkhoza Klyazminsky, 1 Telephone Section on the website : https://falconry-museum.ru/programmy-na-den-rozhdeniya/ Program cost from 400 rubles per 1 participant when choosing the simplest excursion program up to 2000 rubles plus additions when choosing quests. The cost of food is not included in the price.

For children of middle and high school age, various programs are offered with a visit to the eco-park and communication with birds of prey, horses, and hunting dogs.

Quests, master classes, dog training lessons, hand-feeding a falcon, historical retrospectives, a place for tea or a banquet of your choice. From a nomadic yurt to a banquet hall. The total duration of the holiday with a quest or excursion program is from 3 hours.

Pros and features:

You are allowed to bring food for the holiday with you.
The cost of renting a yurt starts from 1000 rubles
Horse riding can be ordered from 200 rubles per participant
There is an online application form

Bunker 42 or Cold War Museum

Address : 5th Kotelnichesky lane, 11 Telephone Website for children's banquets https://www.bunkerplanet.ru Restaurant website https://www.banket-bunker42.ru/index.html The cost of the average order is about 40,000 rubles

For teenagers , they offer interesting and quite complex interactive programs, quests, chilling tours of the bunker with ominous and terrifying apocalyptic stories. After completing the program, you can go to a comfortable banquet hall with chocolate fountains and the opportunity to order a soap bubble show.

Pros and features:

A special atmosphere, the opportunity to learn how to assemble an AK at speed
Wide selection of animators
Possibility of choosing a children's banquet hall or one of the chic restaurant halls