The State Museum of the Defence of Moscow is on Michurinsk the prospectus, in the Olympic Village. The museum was founded in 1979. The basis of the museum was based on exhibits dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow.

Halls of the museum was opened to visitors in 1981. The museum exhibition chronologically displays a great event in Russian history - the Battle of Moscow in 1941-1942. This event determined the fate of not only Russia but the whole world.

In 1994 the museum was reconstructed. In 1995 it opened a new exhibition. The opening was timed to the memorable date - the 50th anniversary of the Victory. With nearly four thousand exhibits were created grand, a unique architectural and artistic design museum, reflecting the picture of the protection of the capital.

The exposition allows the visitor to fully grasp that stopped on the outskirts of Moscow, the best forces of the army, considered the most powerful in the world at that time. The museum exhibition presents the dramatic history of the war in 1941 - the people's militia, the air defense of the capital, which has managed to save Moscow from the intense enemy attacks.

In the collection of the State Museum of the Defence of Moscow collected materials on the protection and the defenders of Moscow, the Battle of Moscow, memoirs, diaries, letters, photographs, maps, owned by the participants of the events and their relatives. The exhibition is a section devoted to the recollections of veterans. The museum keeps the list of participants and veterans of the Battle of Moscow. The museum and carefully preserved wartime newspapers purchased by the museum collectors.

The museum exposition consists of seven rooms. The four halls located exhibitions: "The beginning of the war." "Invasion". "Voenkomat." "Childhood, interrupted by the war." "Volunteers - the militia." "The construction of fortifications." "The products of the Moscow enterprises for the front." The following rooms are located exhibits telling about the combat path divisions that have passed since heavy fighting from Moscow to Berlin. The sixth hall of the museum is dedicated to "the people's memory." The seventh hall of the museum entirely devoted to Marshal Zhukov. It also presents the memoirs and works of writers of the Battle of Moscow.

Most valuable are the collections gathered by the museum: a collection of items of military clothing, a collection of Soviet military awards and German-winning collection of small arms, a collection of letters and diaries of participants of war, a collection of photos of front-line correspondents, as well as a collection of letters to German soldiers and officers of the "Center".

The museum hosts a meeting of war veterans, various lectures and meetings with public figures and highlights memorable military-historical dates.