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# Not long ago I wrote on Threads about the Polytechnic Museum, asking when it will open, whereupon a man turned up and began to assert that the museum has had another storey added – mark this – from below!
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/nedavno-v-tiorns-pisal-pro-politekhnicheskii-muzei-interesuias-kogda-ego-otkroiut-na-chto-prishiol-chelovek-kotoryi-stal-utverzhdat-chto-k-muzeiu-pristroili-eshchio-odin-etazh-vnimanie/
- Published: 2026-09-09T06:46:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:14.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Moscow, Museums, Observations

For all the adepts of TikTok education, I took these photographs yesterday while passing by. The lower storey has always been there! Yes, it was dug out, yes, it was adapted to a new use, reinforced and refurbished, but for now we do not tack lower storeys on to historic buildings with quite the ease with which people speak of the embellished Moscow.