After a meeting where Gagarin was asked to talk about the Cosmonaut training center an idea crossed his mind to create a museum in the Star City. It occurred on June 24, 1961.

"Let's create our own museum. It will be a kind of report on our work, and actually we need a museum just for ourselves, for history, for our junior followers"- he told to his audience.

The first exhibit item of the museum was the figure of a molder presented to Gagarin in Czechoslovakia.

The museum of Yu. Gagarin Cosmonaut training center was officially opened on November 6, 1967.

There are four exhibition rooms, devoted to the history of birth, development and development of manned space vehicles, success and tragic accidents in space exploration, the first person of the Earth who overcame the earth gravity. 

• a sculpture «Human – Earth – Rocket»
• a glass-case «The world applauds to great великому подвигу»
• a globe
• a panel «Gagarin’s visits abroad»
• a glass box with Gagarin’s uniform
• a photo «Gagarin and Koroliov»
• an occasional table

• Round ribbed molded badge «Yu.A. Gagarin»
• Round ribbed molded badge «the Earth»
• a bust of Yu.A. Gagarin
• flowers
• a panel with the S.P. Koroliov’s words «…Successfully combined in him…»
• a glass-case «Childhood and juvenility», «Citizen of the Universe», «Assaulting the sky»
• a glass-case «108 minutes and the whole life», «Memory »

1. a wall clock
2. a portrait of K. E. Tsyolkovsky
3. a book-case
4. a photo of S.P. Koroliov
5. a wall appointment desk calendar
6. a receiver
7. a vase with flowers painted on it.
8. a Rocket souvenir 
9. Yu.A. Gagarin’s personal items
10. a table-lamp

11. two telephone sets
12. a map
13. an earth's globe
14. a moon's globe
15. a safe
16. a model of a monument of K.E. Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga
17. a blackboard with curtains
18. a glass box with uniform
19. a wardrobe
20. Smolensk Kremlin photopanoramas