The State Polytechnic Museum is situated on the campus of the National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’. It is the largest university museum in Ukraine. The Museum started its activity in 1998 when the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute marked the centenary of its foundation by order of Russian Czar Nicolas II. At that time the KPI was established together with institutes in Warsaw and St. Petersburg.
The Museum is housed in the repaired building of the former production shop. The aviation and cosmonautics section of the museum opened nearby in the reequipped auto shop a decade later on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of KPI. Today you can see 3,000 out of 10,000 exhibits of museum’s stock at 13 theme sections in its nine halls spanning a total area of 1,500 square meters. The exhibits showcase various trends of development of science and technology such as electronics, radio engineering, telecommunications, instrument making, machine building and firearms. At the aviation and cosmonautics section, visitors can acquaint themselves with the exhibits that present aircraft building and space industries.
The oldest Russian radio-receiving set of 1917 vintage and telephone sets made in the 1930s are museum’s pride. Among the exhibits are also one of the first Soviet TV sets KVN-49, electronic computers MIR-1 and LUCH, as well as the personal computer NEVRON. The original spaceship VOSTOK-4, a control board from the Baikonur launching center, trainer including the board of a space operator and starry sky simulator, aircraft engines, telemetric and data processing devices are displayed in a separate section. Among the photographs of cosmonauts is the picture of Myroslav Germashevsky.
The helicopter Mi-2 (the aircraft of this kind had been manufactured in Poland since 1965), the tank T-34 which the First Ukrainian Front units had in service, and the steam locomotive 9P that had been in operation in Ukraine since 1954 are exhibited near museum’s buildings. A lane with busts and monuments to KPI-related distinguished scientists, such as Volodymyr Chelomei, Sergey Korolev, Sergey Lebedev, Arkhyp Lyulka, Yevgeni Paton and Igor Sikorsky, runs between museum halls and the main building. All of them made a contribution to the development of aircraft and cosmonautics.
The Kiev Polytechnic Institute was named for Igor Sikorsky in August 2016.
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