Attractions of Kyiv region

The Museum-Archive of the Press in Kyiv is a project of the online publication "Historical Truth". This is the first museum of this profile in Ukraine. Located in Podil in Kiev. The collection is based on a private collection of periodicals and samizdat by journalist Vakhtang Kipiani. The museum opened in 2014 with the exhibition "For Ukraine, for its will! Periodicals of the OUN, UPA, UHVR and other liberation groups."

"Museum on Wheels" is the Museum-railcar of Unification of the UPR with WUPR, located at the "Fastiv" railway station together with the ancient steam locomotive. In a similar headquarters railcar of the Directory of the UPR at the end of 1918, negotiations took place between the leaders of the Ukrainian People's Republic Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Simon Petliura on the one hand and the delegation of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic led by Kost Levitsky and Longin Tsegelsky. It was here on December 1, 1918 "pre-entry" agreement on the intention to unite the population and territories of the UPR and WUPG into a single state. The Act of Unification was solemnly proclaimed a month and a half later, on January 19, 1919, on Sophia Square in Kyiv. The exposition of the "Museum on Wheels" presents documents and photographs that tell about these events, money and postage stamps of those times. The interior and atmosphere of Petliura's staff car were recreated. You can visit the museum only by prior arrangement. Every year on the Day of Reunification, ceremonial events are held near the museum in Fastiv.

The largest collection of works of Ukrainian painting, sculpture and icon painting from the XII-XX centuries is the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) - one of the oldest and largest museums in Ukraine. Its museum funds number about 40 thousand exhibits.

The neoclassical museum building at the beginning of Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv was built in 1899 by architect Wladyslaw Gorodetsky specifically for the Kyiv Art, Industry and Science Museum. It was officially opened in 1904 with the assistance of patrons and art connoisseurs Khanenko, Tereshchenko and others. After the historical exposition was separated in 1934, only a collection of fine arts remained in the museum.

The oldest exhibit is a polychrome wooden relief "St. George with life" of the XII century of Byzantine origin. Among the pearls of Ukrainian baroque art: Bereznyansky iconostasis (1760s, Chernihiv region), the icon "Shroud with a portrait of Bohdan Khmelnytsky" (first half of the eighteenth century), Cossack portraits of the XVIII century and one of the largest collections in Ukraine popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth. centuries of folk paintings " Cossack Mamai".

Modern art is represented by the works of prominent Ukrainian artists Taras Shevchenko, Mykola Pymonenko, Oleksandr Murashko and others. Among the outstanding achievements of the Ukrainian avant-garde are the works of the world-famous sculptor Oleksandr Arkhipenko and the founder of the monumental artistic style "Boychukism" Mykhailo Boychuk. The paintings of artists of the Soviet period: Fedir Krychevsky, Tatiana Yablonska, Mykola Glushchenko, and others are of great artistic value.

Also in the National Art Museum of Ukraine you can see the original sculptures "Samson with the Lion" and "Andrew the First-Called" from the stone rotunda on the Podil.

The National Center of Folk Culture "Ivan Honchar Museum" was established in 1993 on the initiative of People's Artist of Ukraine I. Honchar, co-founder of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, and one of the world's largest open-air museums of Ukrainian architecture and life. The museum is housed in an ancient building - an architectural monument of the XVIII century. The exposition is based on the private collection of I. Honchar, who in Soviet times searched for and collected highly artistic works of Ukrainian folk art, as well as the works of professional painters, who for ideological reasons could not get into state museums. A large collection of icons of the XVI-XVI centuries, fabrics, ceramics, musical instruments is presented.

The National Military History Museum of Ukraine is located in the House of Officers in Pechersk in Kyiv. The museum tells about the development of military affairs over many centuries: the Cimmerian-Scythian period, Kievan Rus, the Cossack era, the First World War, the National Liberation Struggle, World War II, the Cold War, the formation of the armed forces of independent Ukraine. The exposition is based on authentic weapons, which were used in different historical epochs on the territory of modern Ukraine. The museum also conducts patriotic education lessons, where you can disassemble and assemble automatic firearms. In the halls of the museum you can watch military chronicles, documentaries and feature military-historical films.

The National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine gives an opportunity to feel the Ukrainian national flavor and all the diversity of nature and ethnic cultures of different regions of Ukraine. The country's largest open-air museum (open-air museum) with an area of 133 hectares was founded in 1969 on the southern outskirts of Kyiv, on the relief territory of the ancient suburban village of Pyrogiv, from which it received its informal name.

Among the various landscapes reminiscent of the pastoral hills of the Dnieper, and the steep Carpathian Mountains, and dense Polissya forests, and dry southern steppes, scattered typical of these regions hamlets with authentic wooden buildings of the XVIII-XX centuries. All of them were brought from different parts of the country: temples, houses, outbuildings. In total, more than 300 buildings.

The compositional center of the complex is a group of windmills on a hill above the Singing Field. The landscape panorama is complemented by wooden churches, the oldest of which is the Church of St. Paraskeva in 1742 from the village of Zarubyntsi in Cherkasy region. The church of St. Michael the Archangel may be even older - radiocarbon dating dates some of its parts to 1528. Authentic interiors with ethnographic collections are recreated in the houses of traditional peasant yards, which give an idea of typical occupations and life of different ethnographic groups of Ukrainians: Bukovynians, Volynians, Hutsuls, Podolians, Polishchuks, Slobozhans and others.

You can taste the most popular dishes of Ukrainian cuisine (borsch, kulish, dumplings), prepared according to traditional recipes, in an existing tavern or ham. There is also a food court on the main avenue, which offers popular street food.

During the traditional folk festivals (Maslenitsa, Easter, Green Holidays, Ivan Kupala, Pokrova) the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine organizes folk festivals, concerts and performances with the participation of folk groups. Themed festivals and fairs are held regularly.

The history of Ukrainian literature from the 11th century to the present day is represented by the National Museum of Literature of Ukraine. It opened in 1986 in the historic building of the Pavel Galagan College, which housed one of the best private schools in pre-revolutionary Kyiv. The building in the style of late classicism was erected in 1871 by architect Alexander Schille at the request of public figure and philanthropist Gregory Galagan, who lost his only son Paul early. The interior of the two-story mahogany library by Italian masters, which has survived almost to this day, was particularly refined. Today, the library has an exhibition on the history of the school, which was called the "school of academics." In particular, the outstanding Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko, who in May 1886 married Olga Khoruzhynska in the house church of St. Paul at the college, worked here.

11 stylized halls correspond to the historical epochs of Ukrainian literature and acquaint visitors with the literary process in the Ukrainian lands from ancient times to the present. More than 5,000 valuable exhibits were presented, including unique old prints, manuscripts, lifetime editions of works by Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Taras Shevchenko, Panteleimon Kulish, Mykola Kostomarov, Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Drahomanov, manuscripts by Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Starytsky, Pavlo Tychyna, Maksym Rylsky, Vasyl Symonenko, personal belongings of Panas Myrny, Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, Mark Vovchko, Oles Honchar, Ulas Samchuk, personal belongings of Panas Myrny, Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, Marko Vovchok, Oles Honchar, Ulas Samchuk, magazines and almanacs of the XIX-XX centuries, works of famous artists, documentary materials. The Sokyrynets nativity scene from the estate of Hryhoriy Galahan, a box with a mobile puppet theater, is of great interest to visitors.

The National Museum of Medicine of Ukraine was established in Kyiv in 1973 on the basis of the Anatomical Theater of Kyiv University. The museum building was designed by the famous architect A. Beretti in 1853. The exposition demonstrates the development of medicine in Ukraine from ancient times to the present day. In addition to traditional stands with photographs, books, medical instruments and drugs, there are original interiors with portrait figures of famous scientists and doctors, as well as dioramas dedicated to the most outstanding events in Ukrainian medicine. The museum's exposition also widely presents works of Ukrainian fine arts on this topic. The Museum of Medicine of Ukraine is considered one of the largest and most original museums of medical profile not only in Ukraine but also in Europe.

The greatest treasury of Ukrainian antiquities of all time is the National Museum of History of Ukraine (NMHU), located in the historic heart of Kyiv, on the ramparts of the Kyiv Dytynets (Citadel). The museum was founded in 1899 and officially opened in 1904 as the Kyiv Art, Industry and Science Museum. It was originally housed in a museum building built by architect Vladyslav Gorodetsky, which is now occupied by the National Art Museum. The first museum department of archeology was headed by the discoverer of Trypillia and Chernyakhiv cultures, a prominent Ukrainian archaeologist Vikentiy Khvoyka. After the Second World War, the historical museum moved to the current building in the style of classicism, which was built on Old Kyiv Hill in 1937-1939 for the art school.

Today, the National Museum of History of Ukraine is one of the leading museums in Ukraine in terms of the number and importance of collections. Its stock collections number about 850 thousand exhibits. These are world-famous archeological and numismatic collections, ethnographic collections, collections of weapons, monuments of decorative and applied arts, manuscripts, old prints, paintings and graphics, relics of the Ukrainian national liberation movement of the twentieth century. They are located in 33 halls and reflect the history of Ukraine from ancient times to the present.

In particular, you can see the mysterious binoculars of Trypillia vessels, an anthropomorphic idol of pit culture, an iron Scythian sword with a golden handle from the Bielsko settlement. The diorama "Kyiv of the X-XIII centuries" gives a clear idea of the medieval city. The grand royal carriage of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, which she presented to Kyiv Metropolitan Raphael Zaborovsky, impresses with its luxury. The pride of the National Museum of History of Ukraine is the holographic exhibition "Golden Treasury of Ukraine", where you can see in detail the hologram of the famous golden Scythian pectoral. The largest numismatic collection of the museum in Ukraine has 120 thousand units.

In addition to classic tours, the National Museum of History of Ukraine offers author's themed tours, theatrical tours with a deep immersion in the atmosphere of the era, interactive children's tours and quests. The museum shop offers historical publications, postcards, souvenir plates, magnets, etc. Admission to the museum is free every last Monday of the month.

The National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide in Kyiv preserves the memory of the victims of a terrible crime against the Ukrainian people, organized by the Bolshevik government in 1932-1933 by creating an artificial mass famine in Ukraine. Founded in 2008 as the National Museum "Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine", it was also called the National Museum "Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor".

The memorial complex authored by the People's Artist of Ukraine Anatoliy Haidamaki is located on the Dnieper cliffs in the Park of Eternal Glory in Pechersk in Kyiv. Through a symbolic entrance past two sculptures of angels, visitors enter the "Mill of Fate" square with a touching sculpture of a girl with spikelets in her hands "Bitter memory of childhood." The center of the memorial is the "Memory Candle", surrounded by crosses resembling the wings of a windmill, with sculptures of storks on top. The sides of the candle are decorated with ornaments of crosses resembling Ukrainian embroidery.

The Museum Hall performs the functions of a museum. Here are 19 volumes of the "National Book of Memory of the Holodomor Victims", memorials to the victims of the tragedy, archival documents, photographs, eyewitness accounts and maps of the project "Digital Atlas of the Holodomor". On the interactive touch screens you can see the results of decades of research by historians about the places of mass burial of Holodomor victims. Visitors are invited to watch a modern video in the technique of 3D mapping, use an audio guide in 34 languages, tactile layouts.

The construction of the second stage of the memorial is underway, which will house the main museum part of the complex.

According to the project "Inclusive Travels in Ukraine: accessibility of museums of Ukraine", this impressive memorial to the victims of the artificial famine of 1932-1933 is one of the most inclusive museums in Ukraine.

One of the largest art museums in Ukraine and the treasury of Ukrainian cultural heritage is the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art in Kyiv. It is located on the territory of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve in the premises of the former metropolitan rooms and the adjacent Church of the Annunciation, which are architectural monuments of the XVIII – early XX centuries.

The museum's collection was founded in 1899 as one of the components of the collection of the newly created City Museum of Antiquities and Arts, renamed in 1904 to the Kiev Art, Industry and Science Museum. Now the museum collection consists of more than 78 thousand works of traditional folk and professional decorative art of Ukraine from the XV century to the present day. The main rarities of the museum: a wooden carved cross in a silver frame of 1576, clay tiles of the XV–XVII centuries, items of church sewing of the XVIII century, products of the leading porcelain and faience enterprises of Ukraine of the XVII–XIX centuries. The pride and decoration of the collection are the complexes of Ukrainian folk costumes of the XIX – early XX centuries from all regions of Ukraine, where a single artistic ensemble combines the art of cutting, weaving, embroidery, applique, beating, weaving, leather and metal. Traditional women's jewelry attracts attention: dukachi, corals, Venetian necklace, beadwork. The museum also has the largest collection of paintings by prominent Ukrainian folk artists Kateryna Bilokur and Maria Pryimachenko.

State Museum-Reserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943" recreates the situation of the famous Lyutizh military operation to liberate the capital of Ukraine from Nazi invaders in 1943-44. Defensive structures, dugouts, military equipment, and an exhibition of uniforms and weapons have been preserved on an area of 9 hectares. Impressive diorama "Battle for Kyiv. Lyutizh bridgehead. 1943." opened in 1980. Every year before the Day of Remembrance and the Day of Liberation of Kyiv, theatrical performances take place on the territory of the museum, which recreate the battles for Kyiv.

The National Science and Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is located in the center of Kyiv, in an old building with original neoclassical architecture. Founded in 1966. Now it is a large museum complex, uniting 5 museums: archaeological, geological, paleontological, zoological, botanical.

In 24 halls on the area of 8,000 square meters collected more than 30 thousand exhibits that tell about the origin of the Earth, its structure and evolution, flora and fauna, as well as the history of material culture of tribes and peoples who inhabited the territory of Ukraine in ancient times. A prominent place is occupied by a complex of dioramas – about 30 landscape exhibitions and biogroups. In particular, in the paleontological exposition you can see the dioramas "Paleozoic Sea", "Northern Black Sea Coast at the end of the Miocene" and "Archaic human settlement in the Kiyik-Koba cave", skeletons of deinattery, mammoth, hairy rhinoceros and giant deer, reconstruction of dwellings from Paleolithic sites in Mezyn and Mezhyrich.

The Archaeological Museum of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is located on the ground floor. In particular, there is a set of painted mammoth bones of the Upper Paleolithic period from the Mezyn Paleolithic site, interpreted as the world's oldest musical instruments.

The Aviation Museum of the National Aviation University in Kyiv was opened in 1972. There are 28 exhibition stands in a cozy hall with an area of 350 square meters. The historical part of the exposition tells about the activities of the Kyiv Aviation Society, the work of the first Kyiv aircraft designers, record flights of Igor Sikorsky, the opening of regular air traffic on the route Kharkiv - Kyiv, the creation of the first Soviet passenger plane K-1 and other events of socio-economic life in Kiev. to open a higher educational institution of aviation profile. The following stands cover the activities of the school in different periods.

Obukhiv Museum of History and Local Lore is located in a modern library building in the center of Obukhiv. Of the 11 halls, the most interesting is the archeological hall, which exhibits monuments of archaeological cultures studied by archaeologist V. Khvoyko - Trypillia, Pidhirtsi, Zarubynets, Chernyakhiv. The exposition of the Cossack hall is interesting, because all Ukrainian hetmans visited the territory of the present Obukhiv region. Impressive diorama "Obukhov Fair of the late XIX - early XX centuries." with an area of ​​30 square meters. Also interesting is the diorama "Trypillia 1919", which recreates an episode of the struggle of peasant detachments against Bolshevik aggression. The largest area is the hall of the Second World War. There is a diorama here, which recreates the defense on the Trypillia bridgehead in 1941. The epic of forcing the Dnieper in the autumn of 1943 is widely represented. A monument to the poet A. Malyshko has been erected in front of the museum.