Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site was founded in 1972 on the basis of military unit 52605. The fund of the museum has about 100 exhibits (photographs, documents, models and equipment). The idea behind the museum was in enlightening of wide layers of population and dissemination of information about STS. It is the only museum in Kurchatov city. Nowadays the museum presents its exposition to school-children and students, foreigners and workers of other organizations. Excursions are conducted in two languages; the museum doors are open for everyone who is interested in the history of creation and activity of the test site. The museum expositions give full characteristic of the three main testing grounds of the SNTS: Experimental field, Degelen and Balapan, the expositions show scale-models, photographs and equipment of physics-and-technology sector.