About the Museum of the Moscow Ambulance Service
The Museum of the Moscow Ambulance Service was opened on the eve of the 870th anniversary of Moscow. This event also coincided with the 130th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Sergeyevich Puchkov, one of the founders and chief doctors of the Moscow Ambulance Service.
The exhibition consists of original documents and objects related with the history of the service from pre-revolutionary times to the present day. It’s divided in five thematic sections. You can find medical equipment, the uniform of the station's employees from the beginning of the last century and until the Soviet era. As well as the uniform that became the hallmark of the Moscow Ambulance medical teams at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup, and personal protective equipment used by medical teams to protect against COVID-19 virus.
The largest showpiece of the exhibition is a model of the first ambulance carriage (made in 1898). They were purchased in Paris with funds allocated by the merchant's wife Anna Ivanovna Kuznetsova. They became the first special sanitary transport used to deliver citizens from the streets of Moscow to medical institutions.
One of the sections is a three-dimensional exposition of the office of A. S. Puchkov with decorative paintings.
There are also interactive exhibits in the new room of our museum. On the plasma and touch panels you’ll have access to the photo and video archive, as well as to documents that tell about all stages of the formation of the Moscow Ambulance Service.
We tried not just to put together a thematic exhibition dedicated to the development of our service. The mission of the museum is to preserve and display the traditions of the service, from the first horse-drawn carriages and several ambulances to the largest medical structure in Europe, which includes today more than 11 thousand employees and more than a thousand medical emergency teams that serve up to 12 thousand calls daily.
The opening of the museum was a significant contribution to the preservation of the history not only of the Moscow ambulance, but also to Russian medicine in general.
The museum is opened to foreign visitors. To book a visit you should submit a collective application (up to 5 people) to pressa@mos03.ru with an indication of your organization, the names and surnames of the tourists. We will contact you and arrange a date for visiting the museum. The tour is conducted in English or Spanish. Admission is free.
Address: Moscow, street 1-st Koptelsky Pereulok, building 3/1.
