Attractions of Kyiv region

The National Cultural, Art and Museum Complex "Art Arsenal" (Mystetskyi Arsenal) in Kyiv is a leading Ukrainian cultural institution that integrates various types of art – from contemporary art, new music and theater to literature and museum work. Founded in 2005 on the initiative of President Victor Yushchenko.

The museum is located in the complex of historic buildings of the Old Arsenal opposite the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. This is the best preserved building of the Old Pechersk Fortress of the XVIII century, which later became the citadel of the New Pechersk Fortress. The large two-storey rectangular building was erected in 1784-1801 by the military engineer Carl de Chardon from yellow Kyiv bricks without external plastering, which is why contemporaries called the Arsenal porcelain. Also preserved is part of the main fortress wall with bastions, Vasylkiv and Moscow gates, two powder cellars. From the beginning of the XIX century the Arsenal was at the disposal of the Kiev military garrison, during the XX century the military unit was located here, the defensive Kiev repair plant worked.

Since 2005, the restoration and transformation of the monument of architecture and military engineering into a modern cultural and artistic space has been carried out. So far, less than half of the total exhibition area, reaching 60,000 square meters, is used for exhibitions of contemporary art and various art events. In the future, the Art Arsenal will become a progressive museum complex that will present the history of Ukrainian art from ancient times to the present and will host collections of masterpieces from the world's leading museums. Now there is a Small Gallery, which presents young Ukrainian art, as well as chamber projects of leading domestic artists. The largest annual event is the Book Arsenal International Festival.

According to the project "Inclusive Travels in Ukraine: accessibility of museums of Ukraine", this largest cultural, artistic and museum complex in Ukraine is successfully implementing a program to increase inclusiveness.

More than 100 realistic figures of prominent figures of Ukrainian history are presented in the exposition of the innovative museum "Formation of the Ukrainian nation" in Kyiv. It is located on the territory of the National Museum of History of Ukraine in the Second World War, on the back of the pedestal of the Motherland. During the two-hour tour, visitors will get acquainted with the centuries-old history of the Ukrainian nation and its protagonists: kings and hetmans, military and scientists, artists and athletes.

The exposition consists of 25 plot compositions that model various historical scenes or reproduce real events in the history of Ukraine in chronological order: prehistoric period from Trypillia culture to the early Slavs, Kievan Rus (Princess Olga, Svyatoslav the Brave, Vladimir the Great, Yaroslav the Wise), Cossack era (Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozky, Dmytro "Baida" Vyshnevetsky, Petro Konashevych-Sagaidachny, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ivan Vyhovsky, Ivan Mazepa and Pylyp Orlyk), periods of nation revival (Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, etc.), of Ukrainian Revolution (Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Simon Petliura, etc.), of liberation movements (Stepan Bandera, Andriy Melnyk, Roman Shukhevych), of modernity (Igor Sikorsky, Mykola Amosov, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Bohdan Stupka, etc.).

Each installation is accompanied by interactive audio and video content combined with special effects that immerse the viewer in the atmosphere of the era. Dioramas, multimedia stands, interactive screens, maps, holograms are presented. Media guides in eight languages are available to visitors. The installations are specially designed as photo locations. Separate stands are adapted for children. There are recreation areas, cafes, souvenir shop.

According to the project "Inclusive Travels in Ukraine: accessibility of museums of Ukraine", this innovation Museum with three-dimensional sculptures of figures in the history of Ukraine has a barrier-free exhibition space.

The grandiose memorial complex of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War was built in Kyiv in 1981 on the Pechersk Hills above the Dnieper, for which the terrain was significantly changed. Since then, a colossal statue of the Motherland (62 m high, 102 m with a pedestal, weighing about 500 tons) has become a visual landmark of Kyiv next to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The author of the monument is the sculptor Vasyl Borodai.

The unique all-welded steel construction is made of special stainless steel and assembled by means of the special crane. According to legend, the sword in the statue's hand was shortened at the request of the Kyiv metropolitan to make it lower than the cross of the Great Lavra bell tower. On an inclined elevator you can climb to a circular observation deck on a pedestal (37 m), and then - on a vertical elevator to chest level and up the stairs to the upper edge of the shield (92 m), which is significantly swaying in the wind.

The Motherland Pedestal is the main exposition of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. In 16 halls on three floors there are materials that reveal the themes of hostilities, strategies for survival in war and postwar, genocide, the struggle for independence between the two totalitarian regimes. Visitors walk the "Road of War" past a number of museum artifacts, art installations and multimedia panels.

In total, the memorial complex covers an area of over 11 hectares. The way to the museum passes through the main square with the Alley of Hero Cities and sculptural compositions "Forcing the Dnieper" and "Transfer of Weapons", the gallery of heroes of the front and rear, the bowl of "Fire of Glory", an exhibition of military equipment of different times. On the back of the pedestal there is an interactive historical museum "Formation of the Ukrainian Nation".

According to the project "Inclusive Travels in Ukraine: accessibility of museums of Ukraine", this one of the most visited museums in Ukraine provides a high level of accessibility for people with disabilities.

The aquarium of the Ocean Plaza shopping mall in Kyiv is considered to be the largest in Ukraine. The giant artificial reservoir with acrylic windows has a volume of 360 thousand liters. All the main galleries of the shopping complex have access to the 16-meter panorama of the aquarium. Visitors can watch sharks, stingrays, moray eels, groupers, starfish and other inhabitants of the underwater world free of charge.

The building of the Teacher's House was built especially for the pedagogical museum at the beginning of the XX century. In 1917-18 pp. The sittings of the revolutionary Ukrainian parliament, the Central Rada, which proclaimed the independence of Ukraine and the creation of the Ukrainian People's Republic, took place here. Today, the Teachers' House of Ukraine and some organizations are located in the Teacher's House. In 2009, the Museum of the Ukrainian People's Republic was opened, which tells about the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921. The center of the exposition is the 4th Universal of the Central Rada, which proclaimed the full state independence of the UPR on January 22, 1918. A monument to the outstanding historian, chairman of the Central Rada M. Hrushevsky was erected near the Teacher's House. On April 29, in the Teachers' House, the Central Rada elected Hrushevsky president of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which gives grounds to consider him the first president of Ukraine, but Hrushevsky did not work in this position for a single day.

The museum-manor of Andriy Malyshko was opened in a house on the outskirts of Obukhov, where the future poet was born in 1912. The exposition is dedicated to the life and work of the poet, as well as the ethnography of the Southern Kyiv region. Of particular interest are Malyshka's personal belongings: a desktop with a typewriter, books, etc.

The exposition pavilion of the Archaeological Museum of Pereyaslav was built in 1957 over the remains of the Savior Church of the XI century, which was located on the territory of the city suburb and served as the tomb of famous people of ancient Pereyaslav princely times. Thus, it was possible to preserve and present to visitors fragments of the foundations and walls of the ancient Rus'ian temple with the remains of a fresco, paved floor with ceramic tiles, burial in brick sarcophagi under slate slabs.

The exposition of the Archaeological Museum tells about the ancient history of the Pereyaslav region. In particular, you can see stone tools of primitive people, ceramic dishes of Trypillia culture, antique helmet made of gilded bronze, rare glassware of Chernyakhiv culture, products of Pereyaslav masters of the Princely era.

The Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum in Trypillia is mainly dedicated to the Trypillia archeological culture. The dark cubist constructivist building is located on Posadova Hill, on the site of the ancient settlement of Trepol. According to the plan of the architect Anatoliy Ignashchenko, the chest building symbolizes the wealth of Ukraine, and the block of land located around the stone. The Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum was established to mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Trypillia culture by Vikentiy Khvoyka. The exposition presents 34 thousand exhibits, the most interesting of which are exhibited in the Trypillia hall: ceramics, jewelry, models of Trypillia residents, etc. In other halls there are exhibits of other epochs, starting from the Stone Age and ending with the XVIII century. Souvenirs imitating Trypillia ceramics are for sale. The most popular is the original binocular ritual utensils of Trypillia.

The remains of one of the oldest settlements of primitive people in Ukraine in the late Paleolithic era (10,000 BC), found in the village of Dobranichivka during the construction of the road in 1952, are now exhibited in the Archaeological Museum " Dobranychivka settlement", which is a branch of Yagotinsky historical museum. Archaeologists have found here four household complexes around the central square.

The exposition pavilion was erected directly above the excavation site of the largest of the household complexes. You can see the foundation of housing from the bones of mammoths and animal skulls, pits, fires and places of production of tools made of bones and flint. The exposition presents products made of stone and bone, as well as two large panoramic canvases depicting scenes of the original mammoth hunt and the life of the inhabitants of "Dobranychivka settlement".

Palace and park complex in Yahotyn, on the shores of Lake Supiy, founded by Hetman of Ukraine Kirill Rozumovsky in the XVIII century, expanded and arranged by his son Andriy Rozumovsky. The granddaughter of Hetman Varvara Repnina-Volkonska received Yevhen Hrebinka, Mykola Gogol, and Taras Shevchenko here. Preserved homesteads became part of the Yahotyn State Historical Museum. In the outbuilding where Shevchenko lived in 1843, the interiors were restored and a museum was established. Personal belongings of Shevchenko and Repnins, paintings about Shevchenko's stay in Yahotyn, as well as a painting by an unknown Italian artist "Blind with a boy" from the personal collection of the Repnins. In the park - Shevchenko's favorite gazebo. An art gallery is located in the preserved part of the palace. Works by Mykola Glushchenko, Tetyana Yablonska, Serhiy Shyshko and others are presented. The pearl of the collection is the most complete collection of paintings by folk artist Kateryna Bilokur - more than 70 works: paintings, watercolors, graphics, sketches, sketches, sketches, early and unfinished works. Monuments to Mykola Gogol, Kateryna Bilokur, and Sviatoslav Richter have been erected in front of the building.

One of the oldest university observatories in Ukraine, founded in 1845, shortly after the founding of the University in Kiev. The first director was a prominent astronomer V. Fedorov. For a century and a half, many scientific discoveries have been made in the field of astrometry, solar physics and prediction of solar activity, meteor astronomy, observations of artificial satellites of the Earth. In the arsenal of the observatory there are several ancient instruments: the meridian circle, 8 "and 10" refractors Repsold, astrologist Zeiss, there is a library, which contains rare editions of the XVI-XVIII centuries. The house designed by architect V. Beretti is an architectural monument of the XIX century. There is a museum at the observatory.

The deep ravine between Syrets and Kurenivka is known all over the world as a symbol of genocide. A memorial to the victims of Nazism was erected at the site of the mass extermination and burial of 1941,000 Kyivans during 1941-43. On September 29-30, 1941 alone, the Nazis executed 33,000 Jews here. In 1976, a monument to the fallen citizens and prisoners of war was erected, in 1991 - a memorial sign "Menorah" in the form of a Jewish ritual seven candlesticks, in 2001 - a monument to the fallen children. Every year on September 29 there is a mourning procession.

Bila Tserkva Museum of Local Lore presents a large collection of objects of material and spiritual culture of the Southern Kyiv region. The museum was founded in 1924 by local historian Stepan Drozdov-Myshkivsky on the basis of his own collection of antiquities. The museum is now housed in an original constructivist building erected in 1983 on Castle Hill opposite the Church of St. John the Baptist, near the foundations of the ancient Church of St. George in the time of Prince Yaroslav the Wise.

The exposition consists of nine chapters that tell about the nature of Southern Kyiv, the ancient history of the region, the events of the Polish-Lithuanian era and the Cossacks, the heyday of the city in the XVIII-XIX centuries, the development of industry and education, the Soviet era and modernity.

Among the most valuable exhibits of the museum: the Scythian sword akinak, a unique Chernyakhiv lamp with the image of a human face, ancient Rus'ian women's jewelry. Valuable relics of the Cossack times are the flag of the Cossack Hundred of the Bila Tserkva Regiment, a mace, a bunchuk, timpani and weapons. The basis of the collection of numismatics are Roman coins, Kiev hryvnias, money of the Cossack era. The art department presents icons, paintings and sculptures of the XVII-XX centuries from the Branytsky collection. Visitors are especially interested in the recreated interiors of housing of different segments of the population at that time.

A modern reconstruction of the Church of St. George, which gave the city its current name, was built on the Castle Hill of ancient St. George near the Bila Tserkva Museum of Local Lore. A monument to the city's founder, Prince Yaroslav the Wise, has been erected on the observation deck above the Ros River.

Boryspil State Historical Museum was founded in 1967 on the initiative of local historian Viktor Yova. Now the museum's collection includes more than 13 thousand exhibits, all collected in a stylized building on the ancient architecture of the Kiyv Way, built specifically for the museum in the 1980s. The exposition tells, in particular, about famous Boryspil residents: Cossack families of Sulymas and Bezborodkos, poet Ivan Nekrashevych, ethnographer Pavlo Chubynsky. The exposition also presents materials of Trypillia culture, a diorama "Construction of the Let Synagogue", a fragment of a Polovtsian stone woman, a large number of weapons, tools, jewelry and household utensils, the interior of a peasant house. Separate expositions tell about Boryspil during the period of Tatar captivity and Polish rule, about the economic development of the city, about the historical events of the liberation struggle of 1917-1921, the Second World War, the Holodomor, the post-war revival, the present.

The Boyarskyy Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1974 as a literary and memorial museum of M. Ostrovsky in honor of the 70th anniversary of the writer. The museum is located in a separate room on the territory of the local school, in the building of which in 1921 Ostrovsky lived among the Komsomol brigade of builders of the boyar narrow-gauge railway. Although the museum was reorganized into a local history museum in 1992, its exposition is still based on things related to Ostrovsky's work: documents, photographs, personal belongings, the first editions of his book "How Steel Was Hardened" and so on.