The Panda experiment is a key experiment at FAIR -European Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, which is in the development stage in Darmstadt (Germany). The physical program of the experiment is focused on the search for exotic particles, research on hadron spectroscopy, the structure of nucleons, nuclear-matter effects, hypernuclei, and in other areas. New experimental forms of matter predicted by theory -glueballs and hybrids -are of great interest. They have not yet been observed. The PANDA facility will be assembled in the storage ring of the HESR antiproton beam. Antiprotons with energy from 1.5 to 15 GeV will be accumulated in the ring. Up to 2·10 7 interactions/sec are expected on the internal hydrogen (cluster or corpuscular) target. In addition to the high luminosity of the experiment (2·10 32 cm -2 ·sec -1 ), the beam will be monochromatic. Because of stochastic and electronic cooling, pulsed stretching of the beam is expected to be at the level 10 -4 -10 -5 , which makes it possible to measure the mass of the particles with record high resolution 100 keV. Domestic institutes are participating in the development of the PANDA facility.The objective of the program of the PANDA experiment (Antiproton Annihilation at Darmstadt) is to search for new extreme forms of matter, such as the theoretically predicted exotic hadrons -glue balls and hybrids. Glue balls consist of gluons -the carriers of the strong interactions, while hybrids are a mixture of quarks and gluons.Aside from this problem, the program of the experiment includes research in hadron and nuclear physics. In particular, this is the study of narrow states of charmonium above the threshold of DD-meson pair production. Another important direction is the study of hypernulcei, including binary, and charm-nuclei, where a strange (one or two) or charmed particle "is implanted" into a nucleus instead of an ordinary nucleon. The search for new forms of matter in an interaction of anti-