Biography : E. Lapina-Kratasyuk received her PhD in Media & Cultural Studies in 2002. From 2014-2016 she was the head of the research group "Digital City". After graduating from UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics program Culture Analytics in 2016, E.Lapina-Kratasyuk directed a MediaSpace research project, done in collaboration with the Moscow Space Museum and dedicated to Space representations in media, including cinema, astrophotography, videogames and Big Data 3D installations and their aesthetic, educational, political and economic aspects. She is an organizer of the annual international conference MediaSpace and a public lecture course "Space and Sci-Fi" (March-May 2019). Showing the Unimaginable. Space Knowledge in the Media: between Public Science and Artistic Creativity Abstract : Since 2017 our research group from the Higher School of Economics has been collaborating with the Moscow Space Museum on the project "MediaSpace" to study and develop media formats that organize (and normalize) the transfer of knowledge among scientists, artists, museums, industry and business. Besides academic work and publications, we coordinate the annual conference MediaSpace, which brings together astrophysicists, popular science specialists and educators, artists, astronauts, astrophotographers, media professionals and bloggers, and businesspeople. In my talk at the Leonardo Space, Art, Science & Culture Workshop, I will first give a brief overview of the public's knowledge about space research problems in general and in contemporary Russia in particular, using the issues that confront Russian space museums to examine how they transfer space science to society. In the second part of my talk, I will concentrate on my research on astrophotography and the problems of visually representing big space data for the general public: in museum exhibitions, educational projects, art works etc. Moscow Space Museum References Moscow Space Museum (Museum of Cosmonautics) http://www.kosmo-museum.ru/?locale=en