After posting a blog yesterday I decided to visit Space Museum in Zhytomir today. Zhytomir is a small city of about 100,000 people. It is 131 km north of Kiev. The weather was glorious. Sunny. Blue skies. At one point 24 degrees.
While it was easy to get there, it was not easy to find the museum. On entering the city there is huge blue table on which it is written there is the Space Musum in the town. Sadly this was only table in the whole city.
But people were friendly and tried to explain the best they could (although I guess some of them pointed me not in the right direction). After 20 min of driving around the city - I got to the small square with a small building and two big white rockets.
The Space museum is a bit outside the center. It is located in a residential street with typical Ukrainian traditional houses. In the yard of the museum is the police station. Opposite to the Space museum is the house where in 1906 Sergey Korolov was born and which now is his museum.The museum was opened in 1970 and while seeing outside of the museum I was kind of disappointed once inside I was thrilled. This is one of the most spectacular museums I have been.
Starting with the ticket booth where the lady selling tickets was measuring blood pressure of one of museum guides. I asked the lady if measuring blood pressure is a standard museum procedure. She laughed. 
The entrance to the museum is made from same satellite doors. With me in the museum was a group of visually impaired (blind) people. They all attentively listened and touched exhibits.
Their focus was communication. If I correctly understood discussion the group had with the guide - they were interested in communication satellites. It seems they are connected to GPS through their mobile which helps them in case they get lost.
The museum has spectacular and in my view unique collection of space vehicles and equipment. There is the ORIGINAL landing capsule of "Soyuz-27". Original reentry module of "Vostok". Model of soyuz spaceship. Model of interplanetary station "Venera-15".
Next to re-entry capsules there are samples of lunar soil, rescue spacesuit, which was used in-flight Yu Artyuhin and samples of space food. The interesting aspect of the museum is that next to these "space vehicles and other space things there are religious pictures on its walls. Including Buddha. In the center of the musum is the Bible.
To fully relax and meditate there are special "meditation chairs" which swings and have headphones to listen the music.
Overall - I had fabulous time in Space!
Photos of the museum:
Official museum site: http://www.cosmosmuseum.info/about-en.html
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