You can spend time with children in Moscow in a variety of ways: go on a sightseeing tour, take a walk in the parks, go to the Botanical Garden or Gorky Park, ride the attractions, look at the ice rink, the circus or the roller blind. The most ingenious parents even contrive a ride on a tram or subway to entertain kids. But there are some places in Moscow that can not be missed when visiting a child in the capital, and Muscovites are especially shameful not to visit them.

Planetarium

Contacts: Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, 5; +7 (495) 252-02-17; website

Working hours: daily 10.00 - 21.00, day off - Tuesday

Cost: Big Star Hall 550-600 rub. There is a program of discounts and benefits.

Moscow Planetarium was opened after a large-scale reconstruction in 2011 .In the Great Star Hall on the dome-screen astronomical objects and events are shown (the duration of the program is 40-50 min .); Small star hall is equipped with a dome screen ,dynamic chairs and stereoprojection (works only on weekends); in the Park of Heaven the devices of knowledge of the Universe from antiquity to the present days (you can visit by ticket to the Big Star Hall just after the session) are collected ,On the territory of the Park there are also two tower-observatories (the Big Observatory on a separate ticket); in the interactive museum "Lunarium" physical laws and phenomena of nature are demonstrated in a game form (children under 6 years of age are free); the Urania Museum tells about the history of astronomy (you can visit by ticket to the Big Star Hall just before the session); in the 4D-movie theater, viewers immerse themselves in virtual reality

Experimentanium

Contacts: Butyrskaya, house 46/2; +7 (495) 789-36-58; website

Working hours: Mon-Fri: 9.30 - 19.00; Sat-Sun, holidays: 10.00 - 20.00

Cost: children 250-350 rubles., Adults 350-450 rubles., Family ticket with a discount of

Experimentanium - a museum of entertaining sciences - was opened in 2011. There are more than two hundred interesting exhibits divided into sections: auto, anatomy, optics, mechanics, molecular physics, electricity and magnetism, acoustics. Unlike most museums, all the artifacts can be touched with hands, twist handles and press buttons! And also to conduct experiments, for example, to generate a cloud or get energy by turning the pedals of a bicycle.

Children's railway

Contact: MO, pos. Kratovo; +7 (495) 712-62-60; You can get there by train from Ryazan direction from Kazan railway station to Pl. Rest (station Yunost MMJD) or pl. Kratovo (St. Petersburg Pioneer Railway)

Working hours: only in the summer, according to the schedule on the site

The fare: on the whole branch (two stations) there and back 90 rub. for adults and 70 rubles. for children under 10 years old

On this railway, all the children run, even tickets they sell. In hot weather, midday flights can be canceled. Not far from the station. Kratovo lake, where you can ride a catamaran.

Russian State Children's Library

Contacts: Kaluzhskaya pl., 1, m. Oktyabrskaya; website

Working hours: Mon-Sat: 10.00 - 19.00; Sun: 11.00 - 17.00

The library has the largest collection of children's literature in the world. In addition, the library conducts literary classes and creative master classes for children of all ages, psychological training for adolescents and even an English club. All events are free, which in our time is just nonsense. On some it is necessary to be written down beforehand, and on the others it is possible to come simply so. The website has a calendar of events.

Zoo

Contacts: B. Gruzinskaya, 1; +7 (499) 252-35-80, (499) 255-53-75, (499) 255-60-34; website

Working hours: Tues-Sun: 10.00 - 20.00 (summer), 10.00 - 17.00 (winter); Monday - Exit

Cost: 200 rubles., Children, students and pensioners free of charge; Exotarium 50 rubles., Children, students and pensioners 10 rubles; Dolphinarium 150 rubles., Children, students and pensioners 20 rubles; Exhibition of snakes 80 rubles., Children, students and pensioners free of charge

The Moscow Zoo is the first zoo in Russia, it was opened in 1864. Today it contains more than 8,000 animals.

Creative workshops at Vinzavod

Contacts: 4th Syromyatnicheskiy lane, house 1, page 6 "Vinzavod", entrance 6, 1st floor; +7 (495) 782-51-87; website

The cost of one hour of lessons from 300 rubles. on weekdays and from 400 rubles. on the weekend; there is an opportunity to purchase a subscription

On the territory of the Center for Contemporary Art "Winzavod" there are "Creative workshops", in which daily classes are held on drawing, modeling, calligraphy, theatrical studio and animation studio work, guitar lessons are given and master classes on making books and paintings from sand. Also here show performances, arrange film screenings and holidays.

Biological Museum. K. A. Timiryazev

Contacts: Malaya Gruzinskaya, 15; +7 (499) 252-36-81; an answering machine +7 (499) 252-07-49, the excursion department +7 (499) 252-36-81; website

Operating mode: Mon. - Out., Tues, Thurs-Sat: 10.00 - 18.00, cf. 12.00 - 20.00 (in the summer before 21.00), Sun: 11.00 - 18.00

Cost: 100 rubles., Children under 17 years old, pensioners 20 rubles; entrance to the exhibition: 20-50 rubles; greenhouse 100 rubles., children under 17, pensioners 50 rubles.

The museum's collections number almost 80,000 exhibits and cover all sections of biology. Curious visitors will expand their knowledge about plants, mushrooms, vertebrates and invertebrates, mollusks, insects. The museum hosts family programs, a paleontological circle, a cactus club, and plant arrangement courses. The museum is located in the building of the manor of the late 19th century, built in the Russian style.

The State Darwin Museum

State Darwinovsky - so officially called the largest in Europe zoological museum, most visitors who call it simply the Museum of Darwin. The museum was opened more than a hundred years ago by Professor Cotes, in order to satisfy the craving of people for knowledge of nature and the reasons for the diversity of living beings.

Contacts: Moscow, Vavilov, 57, art. m. "Akademicheskaya" phone: (499) 783-2253, website is

Working hours: from 10:00 to 18:00, every day except Monday and last Friday of each month. The exhibition complex on Tuesdays is open from 11:00 to 19:00.

Admission: adults 150 rubles, preferential 20 rubles, exhibition complex 70 rubles. Single ticket 150r., Photo / video 80p.

All prices are in August 2011.

Author - Gulshat Zakirova