Many Muscovites and guests of the capital admire various exhibits at VDNH. But not everyone knows that there is a garden of living tropical butterflies. In Moscow, people like to visit this place with their families. Not only delight is connected with it, but also romance, inspiration! Especially the butterfly museum is liked by children, couples in love. Even in cold winters, a colorful summer dominates the Butterfly Museum at VDNKh. There is an atmosphere of wildlife all year round.
Butterfly House at VDNH in Moscow: from the history of occurrence
The opening of the museum took place in 2007. Moscow Butterfly House was given the name Butterflyarium. In addition to live light-winged beauties, the museum presented paintings of dry butterflies.
Already in 2008, the collection was supplemented with other exotic insects, arthropods, amphibians and reptiles. Everyone who comes to this wonderful place will have an amazing surprise in the form of a unique collection of moths and other insects from different tropical countries. The eyes of visitors just light up at the sight of bright raspberry lacewing, turquoise morpho, black sailboats.
The Butterfly Museum at VDNH is suitable for thematic excursions, romantic dates, photo shoots and selfies. The cost of admission for an adult is 400 rubles. Children visit the butterfly garden for 300 rubles.
The premises are often rented for children's parties, master classes and presentations.
Features of the collection at VDNH
The area of two halls of Lepidoptera insects and a butterfly souvenir shop is 200 square meters. m
In the first room, tropical moths fly freely. Mostly insects from Southeast Asia, Central and Latin America are represented here. They surprise not only with their sizes, shapes, but also with shades. Do you think that these are ordinary moths, which are used to seeing in the summer in our latitudes? This is not true. They amaze with their large size, brightness, fancy drawings on the wings. And almost all of them are tame: you can hold insects gently and take a selfie. They fly freely around the hall, sit on the bright clothes of visitors. They are even allowed to feed oranges, bananas, tangerines, grapefruits, pineapples, mangoes.
There is also an incubator in the hall, where you can watch the cocoon turn into a butterfly.
Possibility to rent a room
If you want to visit the Butterfly Museum at VDNH without strangers, you can rent a greenhouse for a while: an hour will cost 15, 000 rubles. Only agree on such an opportunity in advance.
Often rent a room for workshops, filming, children's parties, weddings, presentations. Up to 50 people can freely fit in the greenhouse. The unusual environment among plants and butterflies will make any event unique and interesting.
VDNH is a very popular place for recreation and leisure in Moscow. The garden of living tropical butterflies often attracts many leading television channels for filming beautiful programs. Children here are not only interested, but also informative. They learn a lot about wildlife, get acquainted with biology, entomology, geography.
Personal and group tours
Museum workers offer two types of excursions:
- Personalized. Conducted for one or two people or families. For the tour you need to pay 1, 500 rubles.
- Group. Can enter up to 20 people. Surcharge to the cost of tickets - 3 000 rubles.
Of course, everyone can, on their own, having bought tickets, take a walk in 2 halls. A collection with live tropical moths will be interesting without a guide. But experienced guides are very exciting to talk about everything related to butterflies.
It offers visitors not only excursions, seminars, but also books, films about nature and insects. The duration of the tour in the two halls is about 45 minutes.
If the whole class comes to the museum, then for the two accompanying adults, admission will be free. The time and date of such excursions must be agreed in advance.
Wonderful photo shoots with butterflies
Photos with butterflies in the museum are simply magical, very romantic. Here, not only ordinary visitors take pictures, but also models, brides. Often shoot videos for advertising. It looks very nice photo session with the winged beauties of babies or pregnant women.
In the museum you can capture yourself not only with live butterflies, but also with dry exhibits on needles. Huge moths will make the photo shoot unforgettable.
The best place for romantic dates
Often men do not know where to invite a girl on a romantic date. The best place for dreamy couples and exalted relations will be the Moscow garden of tropical butterflies. Especially for this occasion, the butterfly museum at VDNH can be temporarily closed, put candles, turn on romantic music, and arrange additional accessories. Such dates are especially popular on Valentine's Day.
The duration of the event is 1 hour. There will be no strangers at this time in the greenhouse. Lovers can bring a bottle of champagne, sweets, fruits. It turns out very nice when partners plant butterflies flying around each other. For a special atmosphere, two hanging chairs are offered, which are very cozy. On weekdays, you can even enter the territory of VDNH by car.
An opportunity to purchase butterflies in a special store
A special store is located in the greenhouse. In it you can purchase insects in various frames: round, square, oval. Girls will be interested in jewelry from butterfly wings, for example, pendants, pendants. The original purchase will be a light-winged beauty in a glass cube. Perhaps here you can also buy a whole collection of butterflies under glass.
Pictures from the wings of moths look very unusual. For example, in the form of bouquets of irises from blue wings. But most of all, buyers are seduced by dried needles and butterflies.
The store also offers to purchase various books and encyclopedias about the butterflies of the world.
