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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-140Last update of repository: 19 August 2019Gosudarstvennyi Politekhnicheskii muzei (GPM)Previous names
The museum was founded by the Society of Friends of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography (Obshchestvo liubitelei estestvoznaniia, antropologii i etnografii) on the basis of materials from the Polytechnic Exhibition which was held in Moscow in 1872 to mark the bicentennial of the birth of Peter the Great. The museum was opened to the public in December of the same year on ul. Prechistenka under the name of the Museum of Applied Knowlege (Muzei prikladnykh znanii). The present building was specially constructed for the museum—the central corpus in 1877, on the plan of Ippolito (I.A.) Monigetti, was one of the first museum buildings in Russia. The side wings were added later in the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century. In 1918 the museum was transferred to the jurisdiction of the People’s Commissariat of Education (Narkompros RSFSR) and reorganized as the Central Institute of Polytechnic Knowledge. Starting in 1922, it came under the Main Administration for Scientific, Museum, and Scientific-Art Institutions (Glavnauka) and renamed as the Russian State Polytechnic Museum. It was known as the Polytechnic Museum from 1947 until 1992, when it became the State Polytechnic Museum. In December 1991 the museum was added to the federal register of the most valuable monuments of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. Since 1994, the museum has been administratively combined with the Central Polytechnic Library (Tsentral'naia Politekhnicheskaia biblioteka—TsPB), which was originally founded in 1864 by the same society that founded the museum, and later occupied a part of the same building that was specially contructed for the museum. |
