Attractions of Kyiv region

The Museum of the History of the Boguslav Region is considered to be one of the most creative historical museums in small towns of Ukraine. It is located in a two-story building of the former ministerial school in 1907. The exposition presents an interesting collection of archaeological finds of the Paleolithic era, household items of Scythians and ancient Slavs, ancient Russian jewelry, Cossack relics, photographs and documents of the Ukrainian Revolution.

The original is decorated with exhibition halls in the spirit of its time. First, visitors enter a cave of the Stone Age, then go from the Scythian burial to the wooden frame of Boguslav Castle, then find themselves in the interiors of a village house and a burgher house, where the iron stairs fall into the era of industrialization.

The branches of the Museum of the History of the Boguslav Region are the Museum of Modern Decorative and Applied Arts, the Ivan Soshenko Memorial Museum-Estate, and the Mark Vovchko Memorial Museum-Estate.

The Kyiv Museum of the History of Fire Engineering was opened on the basis of the 25th State Fire and Rescue Unit of the Obolon district of Kyiv, which at the time of its opening in the 1970s. was the largest in Europe. A unique collection of special equipment, fire and rescue equipment and tools from the tsarist era to the present, badges and awards of firefighters are presented. In particular, you can see the first fire truck, which appeared in Kiev in 1913, as well as the famous Soviet-made fire truck based on the ZIS-130 truck. The Fire Museum receives guests free of charge by appointment.

The oldest of the surviving civil buildings in Podil, which has undergone many reconstructions. According to legend, in 1706 Peter I, who directed the construction of the Pechersk fortress, stopped here. Later, the house belonged to the Kyiv viit Bykovsky, who kept a tavern in it. Then there was a "house of humility", a parish school, an orphanage. Now the premises are occupied by the Museum of the History of Kyiv Charity. One of the most valuable exhibits is a rare baroque icon "Mother of God with a baby" of the XVIII century.

The Museum of the History of Kyiv Sewerage was opened a century after the establishment of a centralized sewerage system in Kyiv in 1894. The museum is located in one of the production facilities of the former sewage pumping station on the Left Bank, near Staraya Darnytsia. Numerous exhibits of sewerage are presented: modern and ancient pipes, including wooden, which is about 200 years old, samples of collectors, valves and pumps, hatches of different periods, models of pumping stations and special equipment, as well as various tools and means for cleaning networks. During an unusual tour, museum visitors will learn about the origins of the world's drainage system, the construction and operation of Kyiv's separate drainage system - the first in the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth century, as well as the modern life of the capital's sewerage system. The tour is conducted by an audio guide. Free admission.

The Museum of the History of the Kyiv Metro was opened in 2000 on the second floor of the administration building of the Kyiv Metro. The exposition is located in three halls in order to remind that the first subway trains were three-car. The first hall is dedicated to the construction and opening of subway lines and stations of different years. A special exhibit is the current model of the Dnipro station (1:87) with the first depot in the form they had in 1960-65. You can see exactly how the type D cars were lifted to the station overpass. The second hall is dedicated to various subway services - here are models of cars and pieces of equipment, travel documents of different years. in the third hall there is a working model of a reversible blind spot (1:87) and the first synchronizing clock. Excursions are available on prior request for groups of 10 to 20 people.

The Museum of Occupation of Kyiv was founded in 2008 and is located on the territory of the Partisan Glory Park of Culture and Recreation. Covers the most dramatic periods of the city's life - from the beginning of the Ukrainian Revolution in 1917 to the restoration of Ukraine's independence in 1991, when the country was under occupation by various states. The exposition reveals the themes of ideologies of different occupation regimes, their policy of occupation terror against citizens, their purposeful destruction of the urban environment. Photographs and documents, personal belongings of the direct participants in the events, leaflets and newspapers of different periods of occupation, samples of weapons and military equipment of those times, maps and diagrams are presented. Visitors are also invited to view the interactive VR-exhibition "Babyn Yar". The Museum of the Occupation of Kyiv is a branch of the Museum of the History of the City.

The Museum of the Sixties in Kyiv opened in 2012 in the building that houses the People's Movement of Ukraine party. The Art Nouveau mansion with a lion sculpture on the facade was built in 1907-08 by architect I. Ledokhivsky. Before the revolution, it housed the surgical hospital of Dr. I. Makovsky. In 1911, the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire, P. Stolypin, died in Makovsky's clinic, mortally wounded by a terrorist during a performance at the Opera House. In 1999, the central office of the NRU, one of the oldest political parties in Ukraine, moved to the building. Its founders were the well-known Ukrainian Sixties V. Chornovil, I. Drach, M. Horyn, and others. Their political and human rights activities began during the & quot; Khrushchev thaw & quot; in the USSR in the 1960s, but later some of the sixties were repressed. The museum was opened on the basis of a collection collected by activists of the public organization of the sixties. The exposition of the museum has about 20 thousand exhibits. The Museum of the Sixties is a branch of the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv.

The Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora, which tells about the fate of Ukrainian immigrants, is located in an ancient Kyiv mansion of the XIX century. Here are documents, photographs and some personal belongings that once belonged to Ukrainian artists, writers, musicians, who at various times were forced to leave their homeland. Several halls of the museum are dedicated to the work of immigrant artists: L. Morozova, O. Bulavnytsky, V. Dobrolizha and others. The largest exhibition is dedicated to the life and work of the famous choreographer and dancer S. Lifar. The exhibition "Military Glory of Ukraine" from the private collection of the Kyiv Sheremetyev family was opened here.

The Museum of Theater, Music and Cinematography of Ukraine was founded in 1923 as a theater museum at the Berezil Art Association, headed by a prominent figure in the Ukrainian theater Les Kurbas. It is located on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, in an adapted room of the former Lavra infirmary. The exhibition tells the history of theater in Ukraine from its inception in ancient folk art to the early twentieth century. The creative activity of the constellation of luminaries of the Ukrainian theater is presented: Mark Kropyvnytsky, Mykhailo Starytsky, Ivan Karpenko-Kary, Mykola Sadovsky, Panas Saksagansky, Maria Zankovetska. A separate exhibition is dedicated to the life and career of the genius Ukrainian actor and world-class director-innovator Lesya Kurbas. The exhibition "Ukrainian Film Genesis" presents the history of the origin and formation of national cinema. The museum also has unique collections of Ukrainian folk musical instruments and rare Ukrainian nativity scenes with dolls. Sightseeing, thematic and interactive music excursions, children's master classes are carried out.

The Pereyaslav Museum of Trypillia Culture is one of the youngest museums in the "Pereyaslav" National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve. It was opened in 2003 in the house where the brother of Ukrainian composer Pavlo Senitsa once lived. The exposition presents materials from about 40 settlements of Trypillia agricultural culture (V-III millennium BC) from different regions of Ukraine: Dnieper region, Pobuzhye, Transnistria. They tell about the Trypillia system of land cultivation, the first cultivated cereals, the construction of Trypillia dwellings, the mythology and rituals of the ancient inhabitants of the region. Among the exhibits: ceramic ware, jewelry, clay figurines, tools.

In the same room is the Museum of Cossack Glory, which presents the works of a talented artist and wood carver, Ukrainian poet-singer Vasyl Zavgorodny. In the three halls of the museum there are more than 200 works by the artist, addressed to the theme of the Ukrainian Cossacks: images of Cossacks, princes, hetmans and educators, including Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Petro Sagaidachny, Taras Shevchenko, Mykola Gogol.

The National Public Radio Company of Ukraine is housed in a legendary building in the heart of Kyiv, whose address "Khreschatyk 26" was once the name for all Ukrainian television and radio. The four-storey building in the depth of the quarter was built in 1913-14 as a telephone exchange on the site of the post office. After the transfer of the capital of Ukraine from Kharkiv to Kyiv in 1934, a radio committee was located here. In 1941, the building was blown up by the retreating Red Army. In 1949-51, the reconstruction was carried out according to the project of architect V. Elizarov (author of the monument "Motherland", the building of the metro "Khreschatyk", the airport "Zhulyany", hotels "Kyiv" and "Dnipro"), a radio and television complex was built. The first TV tower was located on a nearby mountain. After a new television center was put into operation in the early 1990s, state television moved to Syrets in several stages, leaving state radio to Khreshchatyk. Currently, the NRCU broadcasts on four channels: UR-1, "Pormin", "Kultura", VSRU. Enthusiasts opened a museum room, which presents archival documents and photographs, old sound recording equipment, working equipment of radio journalists. Visiting the regime facility is possible only with the consent of the NRCU leadership.

The Kyiv Museum of Electric Transport was founded in 1992 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Kyiv tram. It is currently located on the territory of Darnytskyi tram depot. Copies of old preserved tram cars, as well as trolleybuses and buses of various brands and years of production, including a rare skate, are exhibited on the open-air platform. The museum exposition includes books and photographs, models of trams, a collection of tickets for public transport of different times, a real remote control of the Tatra car. Particularly interesting are the dioramas depicting different periods of Kyiv's tram history: "The Beginning" (Alexander's Descent, 1892), "Years of War" (1941-1945) and "Kyiv Today" (now). To visit, you must submit a preliminary application.

The Water Information Center "Museum of water" was organized in 2003 in the premises of ancient water towers and reservoirs on a hill in the City Garden (formerly the Tsar's Garden) in Kyiv. The exposition of the Water Museum acquaints visitors with the nature of the water cycle, water intake technology, water supply and sewerage. You can take a trip along the sewer to the treatment facilities of the Bortnytsia aeration station, observe the melting of glaciers, the formation of rain and the eruption of the geyser. For children there is an opportunity to change the course of the river, play with soap bubbles, check the power on the water pump, as well as touch live fish.

Kyiv Museum of Wax Figures is a private collection of the Sazhyn family. The idea of ​​creating a museum came to them in 1997 after getting acquainted with the exposition of the branch of the London Museum in Amsterdam. It took three years to present to the audience in 2000 an exhibition of twenty figures that formed the basis for the creation of the future museum. Today, the five halls feature 60 figures of politicians of the past and present, famous writers, popular actors and singers, famous athletes. In the gallery you can see: politicians (M. Hrushevsky, L. Kravchuk, L. Kuchma, etc.), writers, poets (L. Ukrainka, T. Shevchenko, M. Bulgakov), musicians (A. Makarevich, V. Tsoi etc.), actors (G. Vitsin, E. Morgunov, Y. Nikulin, etc.), athletes (V. Lobanovsky, L. Podkopaeva) and others.

Literary Memorial Museum-Apartment of Pavlo Tychyna was opened in 1980 in the house where the prominent poet and statesman lived in Kyiv from 1944 to 1967. It was during this period that he worked as Minister of Education, then was Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Soviet Ukraine. Tychyna's apartment was located on the second floor, but the museum was originally located on the first floor, and only in 1990, on the 110th anniversary of the poet, the museum was given his memorial apartment №3.

The exposition of the museum is deployed in five rooms of the apartment, in which the authenticity of the interiors and the atmosphere is preserved as much as possible, which creates the effect of "the presence of the owner". The main part of the exposition consists of memorial items of Pavlo Tychyna, which were handed over to the museum by his wife Lydia Petrivna. His books, musical instruments, art collection and personal drawings are stored in the study. The master bedroom and the room of Pavlo Hryhorovych's mother-in-law, Kateryna Kuzmivna Paparuk, are very cozy. Pavlo Hryhorovych Memorial Library has more than 20,000 items of printed materials. The exposition of the living room reflects the life of the Ukrainian creative intelligentsia of the middle of the XX century. It is here that the museum holds various creative events. The souvenir shop offers books by Pavlo Tychyna, souvenirs with the museum logo.