The Russian Railway Museum will host the International “Railway Model – 2026” exhibition, held under the auspices of the All-Russian Society of Railway Enthusiasts, for the first time. The exhibition will be open from 13:00 on April 11 through 18:00 on April 19, 2026, during museum hours.
Guests will discover current trends in railway modeling. A large-scale layout made up of 100 railway-themed modules, featuring more than 240 unique author-made models, will be assembled by the “Railway Crossing” installation. Visitors can look forward to works by more than 160 participants from Vladikavkaz, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Kratovo, Liski, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, and other countries.
New products from rolling-stock manufacturers TT-Model and Peresvet will be displayed. As is traditional, the exhibition will be complemented by works by students of the Quantorium children’s technoparks, children’s railway clubs, and finalists of the Second City Competition “Open Steam-Locomotive Races: Revival Two Centuries Later,” organized by the Academy of Technical Creativity and Digital Technologies.
The People’s Choice Award winner will be selected by public vote. During the exhibition, the annual Title Prize for a special contribution to the development of this form of technical creativity will be presented.
The exhibition will include lectures on the art of railway modeling and the preservation of historic rolling stock on Russia’s railways.
Exhibition ticket: 150 rubles. A Russian Railway Museum admission ticket must be purchased separately.
Lecture schedule:
April 12 at 12:00: Meeting with Vsevolod Korovkin, lead designer of the ER200 project at the Riga Carriage-Building Works.
April 12 at 15:00: “Modular Layouts—A Universal Path into the World of Railways and Railway Modeling.” Oleg Sergeyev, a top-category railway-modeling instructor at the Moscow Children’s Railway, will discuss the modern direction of modeling—scale modules. Participants will learn how stations, stretches of track, and infrastructure elements are created from standard drawings. April 18 at 12:00: “The Nevsky Module: FREMO in Russia.” Anton Kylosov, Vasily Vasilchikov, and Ivan Shelekhin, modelers from the Nevsky Module club, will discuss the history of adapting the European FREMO standard in St. Petersburg and the club members’ experience creating modules. April 18 at 15:00: “The Amateur Railway Model as an Element of Cultural Heritage.” Leonid Moskalev, a representative of the Society of Russian Railway Historians and author of works on railways and modeling, will discuss models as an art form, available formats, and opportunities for enthusiasts.
April 19 at 12:00: “The Art of Forming and Organizing the Movement of Model Passenger Trains of the Second and Third Model Eras.” Alexander Nigiyan, a representative of the Moscow TT Club, invites visitors to explore the creation of scale copies of historic trains, from studying archival materials to accurately reproducing them at the chosen scale.
Lectures are included with a museum admission ticket.
Partners of the “Railway Model – 2026” exhibition are Transmashholding, a manufacturer of rolling stock for railway and urban rail transport, and Pacific 88, a manufacturer of model paints.
