The museum is located at 14th Birzhevaya Line and was opened on December 16, 2003, at
Vasilevsky Island as an open and interactive optics museum. It was formerly known as the Laboratories of the Russian State Optical Institute with support of the
Saint Petersburg City Administration.
During 2009-2010, it planned to open an interactive hall for employment of
Schoolchildren.
Exhibitions
The
exposition is located on the ground floor of the building and consists of 3 halls.[1]
The first hall, there is a collection of art and computer holograms, real holographic installations, a statue of
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk, and a training display - "a holography Basis" .
The third hall, there is a
panorama of
Venetian glass, a collection of one hundred forty four
Abbe optical glasses, samples of the first experimental
laser cores and fiber-optical elements with actual industrial equipment.