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annual report the polytechnic museum 2016 CONTENTS 4 NUMBERS 9 CONSTRUCTION 19 PROGRAMS & CONCEPTS 35 2016 PROJECTS 101 PARTNERS 10 Preparing the building 20 Permanent exhibition 36 The Polytech Festival 11 Facades 24 The Hall of Fame 44 Lecture Hall 13 The Big Auditorium 26 Library 46 The Polytech collection 14 The Northern courtyard 28 The Big Museum at Tekstilschiki 16 Server rooms 30 Children’s Museum 48 The Library Night 17 What the renovation 50 Meanwhile in the scientific labs unveiled 54 SKVT 56 The Children’s University 58 360° Film Festival 64 The publishing program 66 Museum volunteers 70 Media Projects 73 Exhibitions at our partners’ venues 74 Cosmos: Birth of New Age 82 Earth Lab 86 200 Keystrokes per Minute 91 Exhibitions in Pavilion 26 at the VDNH 92 Living under the Microscope 94 Codes. Sounds. Signs 98 The AEgean Sea: the Birth of the Archipelago 2 The Polytechnic Museum 3 Annual Report 2016 NUMBERS 748 092 29 500 64 304 unique visitors of the Polytechnic Museum’s subscribers of the visitors of the Polytechnic Museum’s enlightening projects website Museum’s newsletter Scientific labs The Children’s University The Polytech Festival 360° Festival 2 230 students over the year 830 sessions 7 000+ attendees 12 489 people over the year 1 400 sessions The library The lecture hall Scientific Battles 33 000+ people over two days 3 217 people over the year 2 147 people in the audience 6 368 people over the year 119 lectures 8 battles in Norilsk, Zapolarny, Nizhni Novgorod, Tomsk and Minsk 4 The Polytechnic Museum 5 Annual Report 2016 605 576 Russia Does Itself was attended by 5 412 people have visited the open people have attended the Polytechnic Museum’s exhibitions in 2016 71 239 people with 663 excursions funds with 364 excursions overall overall 200 keystrokes per minute (at the MMOA) 37 017 Alice in the Scienceland (at Ufa) 11 473 visitors visitors Alice in the Scienceland (at Orsk) 29 301 Cosmos: Birth of the New Age (at the VDNH) 118 031 visitors visitors Earth Lab (at Digital October) 3568 visitors Life under the 350 000 Microscope visitors (at Museon) December January 2016February March April May June July August September October November 2017December January 2016 2017 6 The Polytechnic Museum 7 Annual Report 2016 The Construction The year 2016 has become the year of the historical building’s global renovation and the final inception of the exhibition’s concept. Dozens of Russia’s top scientists, artists, architects and curators are working to create a new museum. We will dedicate the next year to translating their ideas into the real items of the exhibition. Now we’re entering the final phase of creating the new Polytechnic museum. The world’s best museum of science. We renovate and preserve the historical building while completely rethinking the inner space. Nearly the entire building will be open for visitors. There will be more labs, exhibition areas, and the children’s museum will expand. We’ll arrange a walk-through beneath the building and common area, while the big pedestrian square in its front will become a part of the entrance. We receive support from the board of overseers. Over the year, we have attracted new partners, and we keep on saying that everyone can support the museum. The new museum isn’t but a building in downtown Moscow: it’s a message to the future. What it will be like for us and our children, what our would would be like depends on all and everyone of us. 8 Политехническиймузей 9 Annual Report 2016 CONSTRUCTION Preparing the building We’ve undergone the basic stages of the Polytechnic Museum building’s renovation in 2016. We have equipped it with state- of-the-art utilities and completed designing the complex roofing over the Northern and the Southern courtyards. We have also expanded the area for permanent exhibitions by adding attic areas, as well as staff premises that had been so scarce before. Now all historic buildings will be connected with four complex engineering bridges running over the courtyard at the second story level. There will be new passages between the Big Auditorium’s foyer and the Northern courtyard’s balcony as well. On the rooftops of three houses in the Southern courtyard we’ll open areas appropriate for bureau architectural © Wowhaus of the facades illumination Painterly museum studies and recreation. We moved all passenger and service elevators from the central part of the building to the courtyard space. Open galleries © Wowhaus architectural bureau architectural Open galleries © Wowhaus 10 The Polytechnic Museum 11 Annual Report 2016 Illumination of the facades © Wowhaus architectural bureau architectural © Wowhaus of the facades Illumination bureau architectural © Wowhaus The Big auditorium Facades The big auditorium The museum’s historic facades are being renovated with a jeweller’s We will renovate the museum’s most recognizable auditorium to meticulousness. The city will have them fully preserved. In the early bring it back to the way it looked in the early 20th century, back 20th century, most of the ground floor was occupied by private stores when the building was erected. We open yje structures, study with a separate entry for each of them. For that reason, the owners the details, and clean the decorations. The skylight over the installed doors in big stained window openings. We carefully saved all auditorium will go back to its original state whereas its structure the doors, gates and window panes. Some of them, however, will be purely will be reinforced with modern technological solutions. decorative. There will also be a public pedestrian area incorporating the accommodated area around the museum and basement premises of the building open to the general public. Beneath the basement, at the depth of 8.5 meters, we will furnish a new utility space. 12 The Polytechnic Museum 13 Annual Report 2016 The Big Auditorium’s foyer © Wowhaus architectural bureau architectural © Wowhaus foyer The Big Auditorium’s bureau architectural the Northern at © Wowhaus Courtyard A public lecture The Northern Courtyard The Northern courtyard will host multimedia equipment. From now on, we’ll be able to screen movies, and hold exhibitions, lectures and concerts for more people than the Big Auditorium can house. The Big Auditorium’s cloakroom © Wowhaus architectural bureau architectural © Wowhaus cloakroom The Big Auditorium’s 14 The Polytechnic Museum 15 Annual Report 2016 Server rooms What the renovation unveiled In 2016, we have arranged two server rooms, which are the heart and Over the course of renovation operations, we have discovered the brain of the museum’s technical equipment. We have purchased a framework for a three-level skylight that illuminated the Big the principal network devices, mounted servers, data storage systems Auditorium with natural light. Now we plan to reinforce and glass and backup solutions. The system that would underlie the Polytechnic the skylight. Inside the museum, there are four kinds of skylights Museum is fairly unique for Russia’s museum environment. It’s designed that were used for natural illumination of basement premises back for modern museum’s needs of tomorrow where visitors actively in the 19th century. They installed alternating prisms and semi- consume ‘heavy-weight’ content like 4K videos, 360˚ panoramas, spheres in a cast iron frame to refract the light and send it deep in and video / audio streaming. Those solutions are mainly responsible the room. Under several layers of flooring, we have found fragments for the museum systems’ general reliability, so we’ve factored in a of the museum’s historical star-clad parquet. However, we couldn’t great deal of safety strength. The system shall work for years to save it because of its extremely poor condition. In older days, come. Additionally, we’ve installed storage equipment. Our partner there were stores along both sides of the Trade Passage, while its Panasonic uses special optical Archival Disks with over a hundred central part was illuminated through a glass partition. The entire years of lifetime for cold archives. For further safety, the servers are height of the passage was split into two levels and covered with located in two different rooms on the opposite ends of the building. a regular roofing after the revolution. Now we restore the glass roofing and the decorations. We have already restored massive brick-clad portals that bring back character to our passage. 16 The Polytechnic Museum 17 Annual Report 2016 PROGRAMS & CONCEPTS 18 Политехническиймузей 19 Annual Report 2016 PROGRAMS & CONCEPTS Permanent exhibition In 2016, we have been actively recruiting a team to produce the Polytech’s permanent exhibition, which is unique and completely different from anything one can see in the world’s museums and science centers. With the help of the world’s leading scientists and two chief curators for science and art we have shaped the concepts of thematic halls of the exhibition and proceeded with pre-production procedures. In order to make the exhibition real we will have to produce over 200 complex exhibits with no counterparts in the world, as well as enormous amounts of multimedia and interactive content. The exhibition’s prime purpose is to make contemporary fundamental science comprehensible for any visitor. We have done a big job to pinpoint the bureau architectural section © Wowhaus space: central The permanent exhibition most important scientific topics of today in order to determine what to show in the museum’s physical space and what to leave for a visitor’s individual research in our app Big Museum. Even though the museum’s effective space has grown by third, the dimensions of the historic building still impose some limits, so we have put effort and time, and invited expert opinion to find out which science areas are likely to bring about important discoveries within the next five to ten years, and which make a person’s understanding of their place in the world impossible without them.