The descent vehicle of Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok-1 spacecraft displayed at the exhibition RUSSIAN COSMOS at the Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow (MAMM) was seen by 98 thousand 534 visitors.

The ROSCOSMOS and MAMM exhibition was opened to visitors from May 18 through September 11, 2016 within the framework of ROSCOSMOS program “Gagarin. OFF WE GO!” dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the man’s first flight into space. The organizers are ROSCOSMOS and MAMM. Along with other exhibits, also on display there were some exclusive photographic and video materials from RSC Energia, as well as a model of the International Space Station.

Before being displayed at the exhibition, the descent vehicle of Vostok-1 had never left the premises of the company since April 1961, where it was delivered immediately after the legendary mission.

The descent vehicle of Vostok-1 in April 1961, virtually immediately after Y.Gagarin’s flight was delivered into a high bay in one of the buildings on the premises of Special Design Bureau 1 (now known as RSC Energia). Later on a classroom was set up there, and after that a museum was opened, the permanent exhibition of which included engineering models of the first artificial Earth satellites, interplanetary probes, descent vehicles of Vostok-6, Voskhod, Voskhod-2, Soyuz spacecraft, mockups of the core module of space station Mir and other samples of rocket and space hardware. The room where the descent vehicle of Vostok-1 spacecraft was displayed was declassified and opened to visitors in 1992. Until May 2016 the unique exhibit had never left the premises of the Corporation.

The project RUSSIAN COSMOS at the Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow presented an analysis of the links between the ideas of cosmism, developed by Russian philosophers, scientists, writers and artists in the early 20th centuries, and modern Russian art. RUSSIAN COSMOS brought together within the same display area the works of the Russian avant-garde artists – Alexander RODCHENKO, Vladimir TATLIN, Ilya CHASHNIK – and notable scientists on the one hand and of Russian artists starting from Khrushchev’s Thaw to this day on the other, such as: Sergei SHUTOV, Timur NOVIKOV, Pavel PEPPERSHTAIN, Ilya and Emilia KABAKOV, Konstantin BATYNKOV, Margo TRUSHINA, Ivan MIKHATSLOV and others. Displayed at the exhibition, in addition to drawings, were a model of an airship and a trumpet “for listening to the music of the spheres” built by K.E.TSIOLKOVSKY, which come from the museum of the scientist in Kaluga.