Polytechnical Museum is located in the center of Moscow on New Square. The museum was created thanks to the initiative of the members of the Society of Natural History, Ethnography and Anthropology, immediately after the last in 1872, the Polytechnic Exhibition. Exhibits funds formed the basis of the new museum. Active participation in the creation of the museum took the members of this society, a professor at Moscow University and A.P.Bogdanov G.E.Schurovsky.

The Moscow City Duma in 1871 allocated land for the construction of the museum in Lubyanskiy Travel. Later, the building of the museum was on the Lubyanka Square. This happened after the demolition of the building of the Imperial Society. On the site of the demolished building was built north of the museum building.

The museum was opened in a temporary building in 1872. In 1877 it was built the central part of the museum building. Project architect Monighetti fulfilled. He supervised the construction of the building NA Shokhin. The south wing of the Museum was built by architect Shokhin in 1883, in 1896 the right wing of the building was built and the North Building was built in 1903 - 1907 the project Makaeva. All the construction of a building of the Polytechnic Museum lasted for about thirty years.

Polytechnical Museum - one of the world's oldest science and technology museums. Today it is the largest museum in Russia, which presents more than 190 thousand exhibits, 150 collections in various fields of scientific knowledge and technology. Exposition of the museum illustrate the principle of operation of various technical devices, tell the history of technical inventions and inventors. The library of the Museum contains more than 3 million books and periodicals.

In the Lecture Hall of the Museum were Bunin, Burliuk and Mayakovsky. Burle debates about the development of culture. In 1918, in the lecture hall were Khlebnikov, and Yesenin, White, Mariengof and Bruce. In the thirties, the poetic tradition continued Z, Bagritsky and Twardowski. During the period of the "thaw" of the sixties at the Polytechnic were Voznesensky, Okudzhava, Christmas and others.

The Polytechnic Museum were world-renowned scientists: Nobel laureate Metchnikoff, Academicians Fersman, Zelinsky, Vavilov. Here, in 1934 Niels Bohr played a lecture on "The structure of the atomic nucleus."

In our time in the famous Lecture Hall boils scientific-educational and political activity. Large audience Lecture built on the lines of the amphitheater and seats 520 spectators. It is here that all those responsible are held and significant events for the Polytechnic Museum.

In 2011, in the lecture hall of the Polytechnic University held lectures Open "Skolkovo". Works bookstore "Tsiolkovsky".