Scientific and technical museums and the visitor: a retrospective and perspectives
The article is devoted to the experience of working with the visitor to the scientifi c and technical museums of St. Petersburg and Moscow of diff erent departmental subordination. The text gives information about the exhibition, cultural and educational, publishing activities of museums of this profi le in the second half of the XX - beginning of the XXI. The dependence of the activity of science and technology museums on the current socioeconomic and political situation in the country is noted.