Moscow government announced that the Planetarium would be open for public in December 2010.
      
      The Planetarium will be connected to the Moscow Zoo with a bridge for pedestrians. Up to 1 million visitors every year will be able to learn more about planets and space.
      
      The Moscow Planetarium celebrated its 80^th anniversary in November 2009, having been built in 1929. In 1994 its building was closed for reconstruction, which actually started only in 2002.
      
      The Moscow Planetarium will become the largest facility of the kind in the world. The museum will have souvenir shops, lecture hall, “space rides” and a restaurant. The roof of the Planetarium will host two new observatories, the largest vertical solar clock in Europe, Foucault pendulum, giant globes, and models of Stonehenge and Egyptian pyramids. Those, longing for education and entertainment, will find everything in a special centre with a library and meteorite museum.
      
      Source: Science News