The Planetary Museum, also known as Planetarium Museum was another place I visited.  Located in Volgograd, the museums interior is well decorated with paintings, and chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.  I was particularly impressed with the mosaic of Stalin. 

As you enter, there is a board with information about Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, along with other important breakthroughs.  Through the next doors, you enter the forum where the mosaic of Stalin is hanging directly in front of you.  With the walls painted on either side, and models of Spudnik and various probes hanging from the ceiling.  The interior was truly awe inspiring. 

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Natasha and I paid for the tour, which was only 30 rubles, if I remember right.  Along with the tour came the lecture in the planetarium casting up the star field.  The lecture was fascinating, but I wasn’t too impressed with how they represented the constellations.  The museum displayed mythological drawings of the constellations, but didn’t show which stars they represented.  Obviously the trained eye knows when looking up, but I only knew about 8 of the constellations.  I wish they would have brightened the stars which made the constellation, so it would be obvious.  Everything else about the tour and planetarium lecture was great!

Don’t forget to check out all the paintings hanging around the building, as all are works of art, and must be appreciated.