Attractions of Kyiv region

Since 1975, the Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine has been located in the building of the monastery printing house of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which has been operating continuously for over 300 years - from the beginning of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The exposition covers the history of domestic books and book business from the times of Kievan Rus to the present day. Among the oldest manuscripts are the "Gospel of Reims" (XI-XIV centuries), the "Ostromir Gospel" (1056) and an integral attribute of the inauguration of the Presidents of Ukraine "Peresopnytsia Gospel" (1556-1561), examples of translation and orig. literature of Kievan Rus. Among the unique monuments of printing are the first Ukrainian printed book "The Apostle" (Lviv, 1574) and the first Slavic "Bible" (Ostrog, 1581), published by Ivan Fedorov. You can also get acquainted with rare editions of Ukrainian printing houses: fraternal, monastic and private. The two exhibition halls periodically display art, book and illustration, photo exhibitions, as well as events dedicated to important events in the cultural life of Ukraine and abroad. The institution offers a museum-pedagogical event "Game in a fairy tale" for children's groups.

The Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts of Ukraine (MSIIU) is the first private museum in the country to present the work of contemporary Ukrainian artists. The museum was created by patron S. Tsyupko on the basis of a personal collection of paintings, graphics, sculpture and decorative and applied arts. The museum collection has more than 4,500 unique exhibits and is located on an area of 3.5 thousand square meters. It is based on modern non-figurative painting. In addition, exhibitions of Ukrainian artists are constantly held in the halls of the museum.

The Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts in Boguslav is a department of the Museum of the History of the Boguslav Region. It is located in the oldest civil building in the city, which locals call "Kamyanytsia". This archaic massive two-storey building with external wooden stairs was erected in the XVIII century for the Jewish religious school. The thickness of its walls reaches 1.2 m, the building has deep basements. During the Second World War, the Gestapo was located here, then the Museum of Komsomol Glory.

Now in the restored "Kamyanytsia" there is an exhibition of modern local decorative and applied art - the work of Dybynets potters and masters of artistic weaving. In particular, the longest woven towel in Ukraine with a length of almost 105 m, created in 2017 in honor of the 985th anniversary of the founding of Boguslav, is on display. To view the exhibit, visit the nearby Boguslav History Museum.

The Museum of Ethnography was opened in Yahotyn in 2006 in the premises of the former Zemstvo school. The exposition includes exhibitions of ancient towels, peasant clothes of the XIX century, household items. The typical interior of the village house of Yahotyn region of the beginning of the XIX century was reconstructed. Author's exhibitions of paintings by Yahotyn artists are held.

The Museum of Hetmanship in Kyiv is dedicated to the history of state formation of Ukraine during the Zaporozhian Cossack Army and the Hetmanshchyna of the XVII-XVIII centuries, as well as the Hetmanate of the early XX century. The exposition reveals the essence of a specific Hetman form of government and the structure of the military-civil administration in the then Ukraine, tells about the history and traditions of the Cossack-Hetman era.

The museum was founded in 1993 and is housed in an architectural monument of the late seventeenth century, known to the people of Kiev as "Mazepa's house". In fact, this two-story mansion in the typical Baroque style of Cossack architecture was built during the reign of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, although there is no direct evidence of his stay here. From 1717 the house was owned by the Cossack-bourgeois Sychevsky family, whose representatives were part of the city magistrate. Among the few Podolsk mansions, this house survived the fire of 1811, as indicated by its location at an angle to later street planning. During the reconstruction of Podil, the architect Andriy Melensky completed the second floor and the pediment with columns. In Soviet times, there were communal apartments. In 1992, the Ivan Mazepa Foundation carried out a restoration to create the Museum of the Hetmanate.

The museum has more than 9,000 museum items. In the hall of Bohdan Khmelnytsky the banner of the hetman with his family coat of arms is presented. The scientific exhibitions "Hetman Ivan Mazepa", "Philip Orlyk – Hetman, the author of the first democratic constitution of Ukraine" and "Pavlo Skoropadsky and the Ukrainian state of 1918" are constantly open. Among the exhibits: an engraving of 1706 "Mazepa among his good deeds", a map of Ukraine by Johann Baptist Homann in 1716, items from the personal collection of the Skoropadsky family. The museum periodically holds meetings of the discussion club "Hetman's Living Room".

The private museum of historical weapons and armor of collector Yevhen Gredunov opened in 2020 on the territory of the Talisman enterprise in Brovary. The exposition presents weapons of different times and peoples. In addition to samples of Ukrainian and European weapons, the stands also include weapons from India, China, Japan, as well as African, Polynesian and pre-Columbian weapons. Historical weapons of the Horde, Crimean Tatars, and Polovtsians are also presented. The most valuable exhibit is a Polynesian dagger made from the human tibia.

The country house of Countess N. Uvarova was built at the beginning. XX century manufacturer A. Septer. Countess Uvarova (as a girl Tereshchenko) liked the fashionable architecture of the building with a romantic tower and weather vane. Having bought it, the countess decorated her possessions with various rare plants and trees of valuable species. A fountain and gravel paths were built near the house. After the February Revolution in 1917, the Uvarovs and the entire Tereshchenko family emigrated to England. A school was opened in the Countess's house during the Soviet era, and the Ukrainian writer V. Pidmohylny studied here. Today it is the Museum of History and Culture "Uvarov House", there is an exhibition hall. Concerts are held on weekends.

The Museum of Kobzar Art in Pereyaslav is located in an old house, where in the early XX century there was a shop. About 250 exhibits tell about the history of the origin and development of kobzarstvo, about the life of the most famous Ukrainian bards, as well as about modern trends in kobzar art - traditional folk and folklore and stage-academic.

The oldest exhibits are authentic ancient Rus'ian musical instruments: whistles, tambourines and harps. A special place in the exposition is occupied by the traditional Ukrainian kobza - a lute-like string plucked musical instrument, which was an indispensable companion of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. In addition to the Cossack kobza, the museum exhibits lute, zither and bagpipes, as well as 26 banduras, which are more modern and sophisticated musical instruments. In particular, there are banduras that belonged to a prominent kobzar of the XIX century. Gnat Goncharenko and the famous master Alexander Kornievsky. The museum hosts concerts of Pereyaslav kobzars and other events.

A magnificent building in the style of the Italian Renaissance was built for the Kyiv office of the State Bank. It was originally two-story, but 30 years later two more floors were added. The central place in the building is given to the operating room with colored stained glass windows and a glass ceiling. Excursions to the Museum of Money are held on Wednesdays and Fridays after 14:00 (prior written request required). His exposition tells about the money circulation in the Ukrainian lands from ancient times to the present day. Here are primitive forms of money, antique, medieval coins, money of the Russian Empire, banknotes of the Ukrainian People's Republic, as well as money of the Soviet period and modern independent Ukraine. A special permit is required to visit the Treasury Museum of Ukraine.

The Museum of One Street is dedicated to the history of Andriyivsky Descent, the most famous and colorful street in Kyiv. Founded by the literary search association "Master", whose activists decided to reveal to visitors some secrets of Andrew's Descent, to acquaint with its most famous inhabitants, to recreate and preserve a special aura that surrounds this romantic street - Mecca of artists, writers and other creative people. The interiors of some typical rooms have been reconstructed, showing the peculiarities of Kyiv life in the 19th century. Separate exhibitions are dedicated to M. Bulgakov, F. Krasitsky, I. Kavaleridze and others. In 2002, the One Street Museum was named one of the best museums in Europe. Historical, documentary and art exhibitions are held regularly.

The large museum quarter between Saksaganskoho, Zhylyanska, Pankivska and Lva Tolstoho streets in Kyiv unites museums of several prominent Ukrainian families who lived here at the same time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Kosach, Lysenko, Starytsky, Tobilevych. The Pankivshchyna district was then called the Latin Quarter because the Kyiv intelligentsia lived here: professors and students of St. Volodymyr's University, doctors, engineers, and artists.

Mykola Lysenko, a prominent composer and founder of Ukrainian classical music, was the first to settle in the house at 95. In the apartment where he lived the last 18 years of his life and wrote his main works, the interiors of the hall, study, dining room and living room were recreated, where even today you can hear the magical sounds of Lysenko's piano.

The writer and theatrical figure Mykhailo Starytsky lived in the neighboring house № 93 with his wife Sofia, daughter Maria and son Yuri. The exposition of the Starytsky Museum consists of a memorial apartment, which recreates the interiors of the living room, dining room, Starytsky's office and the room of the eldest daughter Maria, as well as the exposition "Continuation of Family Traditions", dedicated to the life and work of children and grandchildren.

The Lesya Ukrainka Museum was established in the house № 97, where the Kosach family lived for a decade and Lesya herself visited from time to time. In fact, the editorial board of the magazines "Ridny Krai" and "Moloda Ukraina" was based here, the editor-in-chief of which was the mother of the poetess Olga Kosach from the Drahomanov family (literary pseudonym - Olena Pchilka). Seven halls of the literary exposition tell about the life and creative way of Lesya Ukrainka, about the Drahomanov and Kosach families, among the poet's friends and like-minded people.

The museum of one of the luminaries of the Ukrainian theater Panas Saksagansky from the Tobilevych family will be opened in the memorial building № 96 on Zhylyanska Street after its restoration.

The Museum of Popular Science and Technology "Experimentanium" in Kyiv is a scientific and entertainment center, where the laws of science and the phenomena of the surrounding world are clearly and easily demonstrated. The permanent exposition of the museum has about three hundred interactive exhibits and covers the main sections of physics studied at school: mechanics, molecular physics, electricity and magnetism, optics, acoustics. The exhibits are designed so that visitors can conduct experiments that illustrate the work of a law of nature. One of the most interesting exhibits is a Tesla plasma ball, which demonstrates crisp experiments with high voltage. On the second floor there is a cozy cafe.

The Museum of Public Transport of Kyiv was established in 2015 on the basis of the historical exposition and restoration center of KP "Kyivpastrans". Located on the territory of the former bus fleet №3 near the metro station "Brest" (entrance from the lane Yuri Matushchak). The exposition presents rare buses, trolleybuses, trams and cars that have worked on passenger routes in Kyiv in different years. Among them: ZIS-155, LAZ-695M, Skoda 8Tr, LiAZ 677 and others. There is a workshop for restoration and restoration of old equipment. It is planned to create excursion routes by retro transport, excursions in existing parks and depots.

The Museum of Secondary Raw Materials near the Livoberezhna metro station in Kyiv is called the "Museum of Antiques" or the "Museum of Unnecessary Things." It was opened in 2007 on the territory of the Kyivmiskvtorresurs plant, which is engaged in procurement and processing of secondary raw materials. Back in the middle of the XX century. here they began to systematically select interesting things from the garbage, and later, learning that the factory accepts antiques, people began to take them here. Among the unique rarities - the first in the Russian Empire vacuum cleaner, an ancient set of hairdressing tools, a set of tools for torture of the tsarist gendarmerie, a sleigh-gringol, a machine for processing hemp. A whole stand with about 40 different figures of the leader of the revolution is dedicated to Soviet themes, and the famous 7-meter statue of Lenin, brought from the Crimea, is installed in the yard of the plant. The large exposition is located on the street under a canopy, and the small one - in a wooden house for antiques.

The Museum of "Testament" in Pereyaslav is dedicated to the most famous work of the outstanding Ukrainian poet-prophet Taras Shevchenko. The exposition is located in an old wooden house built in 1820, which belonged to the family of Pereyaslav doctor Andrei Kozachkovsky. It was there that Shevchenko visited him during his stay in Pereyalav, and it was here on December 25, 1845, during a serious illness, that he wrote his program poem, which became a call to the liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people and a message to his descendants.

The house reproduces the preliminary planning and interiors of the guest room where the poet lived, living rooms, libraries, Kozachkovsky's office. For a long time, a historical museum was located here. Much of his exposition is preserved and now reveals in chronological order the history of the Pereyaslav region of the Cossack period through the prism of its understanding by Shevchenko.

The most interesting exhibits belong to the Cossack era: ancient weapons, Cossack jewels, personal belongings of Cossack leaders, copies of important documents of the time. In particular, the personal sword of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, presented to him by the Polish King Jan Kazimir, is presented. You can also see the hetman's mace of the XVIII century, bunchuk of the XVII century, colonel's pirnach, squid of the hetman's clerk, etc.

Three literary and artistic halls tell about Taras Shevchenko's studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, the poet's early work, as well as his acquaintance with many Pereyaslav residents and personally with the owner of the house, about the "Pereyaslav Kobzar Autumn" - the period of a real creative rise of the artist.

In front of the estate grows an acacia tree planted by Shevchenko together with Kozachkovsky. There is a souvenir shop in front of the museum.