Antireligious Museum

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ANTIRELIGIOUS MUSEUM existed from 1930 to 1937 and was housed in St. Isaac's Cathedral. The museum was one of the main centres of atheist propaganda in the USSR. The experiment with Foucault's pendulum, demonstrating Copernicus’ theory that the Earth revolves was demonstrated on the night of 12 April 1931, in the presence of over seven thousand viewers. After the museum’s closure its materials were relocated to the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (today the Museum of the History of Religion).

A. D. Margolis. Copernicus Nikolaus
Foucault Jean Bernard Leon
Margolis Alexander Davidovich
Museum of History of Religion
St. Isaac's Cathedral
1930