Science museums set a high goal for themselves: to form a scientific worldview through updating the history of scientific thought and scientists’ biographies, visualize the history of scientific research, and captivate and involve visitors in the process of learning and discovering a new world. To mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of Boris Mikhailovich Zavadovsky, the founder of the Biological Museum, K.А. Timiryazev State Biological Museum organized the conference «Authenticity, Relevance, Accessibility: How to Show Science in a Science Museum». The partners of the Biological Museum in organizing and holding the conference were the ICOM of Russia, the BIOTECH Museum of the Centre of Modern Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian State University for the Humanities, the Central State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation of St. Petersburg, and the Museum journal.

The periodic law is the foundation without which there is no understanding of radioactivity. Despite the fact that in 1840 Peligo managed to obtain a simple substance uranium — a heavy metal of gray-steel color — and approximately determine its atomic weight. Only 34 years later, in 1874, D.I. Mendeleev, relying on the periodic system developed by him, for the first time determined most accurately the atomic weight of uranium. Mendeleev's scientific ideas and foresight contributed to the discovery of polonium and radium by Marie and Pierre Curie. In 1899 in one of the letters to Mendeleev, Jozef Bogusky, in particular, reported: “My sister Mrs. Curie-Sklodowska discovered two new elements: radium and polonium. In 1902 Mendeleev met Marie Curie in Paris. Together they visited Becquerel's laboratory. The visit to Becquerel's laboratory had profound consequences and led Mendeleev to revise his views on the phenomenon of radioactivity. In 1902, Mendeleev published one of his most original works, “An Attempt at a Chemical Understanding of the World Aether”. In it Mendeleev for the first time in his publications pays attention to the phenomenon of radioactivity, and tries to connect it with the world ether. In 1905, Mendeleev presented his views on radioactivity in the 8th edition of Fundamentals of Chemistry. The chapter “Radioactive Substances” contains a detailed description of the properties of radioactive radiations, talks about the discovery of “special radioactive elements”. Here Mendeleev prophetically reported: “The study of uranium, starting from its natural sources, will lead to many more discoveries, I boldly recommend those who are looking for subjects for new research, especially carefully engaged in uranium compounds.” A teacher's success is in his students. Vernadsky and Khlopin laid a strong foundation in the development of the uranium project. This year, the Khlopin Radium Institute celebrates its 105th anniversary. Khlopin celebrates its 105th anniversary, the first Russian Department of Radiochemistry is 80 years old, and V.G.Khlopin celebrates his 135th birthday.

The UNESCO declared 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. In February, the Herzen University presented a series of lectures on the «three great problems by Ginzburg» and a theological discourse on quantum theory. The outstanding Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner academician Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (1916–2009), in his Nobel lecture, identified three, as he put it, «great» problems of modern physics, the existence of which, according to him, means that «until the questions are elucidated, one cannot be quite sure of anything». An appeal to theological discourse makes it possible to unambiguously identify a coherent interpretation of quantum theory, which is self-consistent and consistent with the entire context in which it exists.

Since the 18th century, the Nizhny Tagil iron-smelting and iron-making plant has been one of the largest and most advanced enterprises not only in Russia, but also in the world. By the 60s of the 18th century, it had a full technological cycle of ironworking. Exactly 300 years ago, in 1725, the Nizhny Tagil iron-smelting and iron-making plant, founded by Akinfiy Nikitich Demidov, produced the first batch of pig iron. In 1989, it became Russia’s first plant museum of the history of the development of ferrous metallurgy technology. Currently, it is the Eco-Industrial Technopark «Old Demidovsky Plant» as part of the Nizhniy Tagil’s Museum — Reserve «Mining and Work Ural». The article is dedicated to this significant anniversary.

Today, industry-specific museums occupy a strong position among scientific museums, form their audience, and represent a powerful platform for visitors to communicate with the company’s specialists. The Museum of Urban Economy of Moscow is the only public interactive museum in Russia that tells about the structure of the metropolis from the standpoint of urban economy for a wide audience. The exhibition fascinatingly tells about the most multifaceted complex of Moscow’s urban economy in simple and comprehensible language.

Boris Aleksandrovich Lindener is a man of great talent and a difficult fate. His brilliant scientific career was interrupted in 1926 by his arrest and subsequent imprisonment. From the Solovetsky special purpose camp, he was sent to Khibinogorsk (Kirovsk since 1934) for apatite mining under an agreement with the Apatite Trust. The House of Technology with a mining and geological museum and library that he created in the young city quickly became a center of scientific and technical education and cultural life. The article describes the details of B.A. Lindener’s biography and the development and fate of his main project, which is still successfully functioning.

State policy in the field of domestic tourism and of science vulgarization has contributed to the recreation carrying capacity development of the Novosibirsk region, including science tourism as a new tourist destination. This paper presents an integrated approach of the Exposition center of SB RAS, actually included in the Russian register of science tourism, to the science tourism development.

The Museum of History of Donetsk National Technical University was established in 1971 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the first higher educational institution in Donbass, which at that time was called DPI. Unique exhibits from the first years of the university’s existence were collected. During the preparation for the 75th anniversary of the University (1996), the concept of the museum exposition was reconsidered. Rector A.А. Minaev came up with the idea of creating an artistic version of the university’s history, which was unusual for that time. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Donetsk National Technical University in 2021, on the initiative of Rector A.Ya. Anoprienko, the museum has developed a modern infographic «Stages of a Long Journey» based on archival materials and documents.

The initiator of the cultural and educational project «Great People of Donbass» was the team of the Donetsk Republican Museum of Local History. The project of the mobile interactive exhibition «Great People of Donbass» about outstanding natives of Donbass, as well as famous people who lived and worked in the Donetsk Region and glorified it with their achievements, became the winner of the Second Competition of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives in 2024. In 2025, residents of the DPR began to get acquainted with the exhibition at partner sites. It is expected that the exhibition will go around 10 cities and towns of the Republic, including the new regions: Mariupol and Volodarsky District.