Attractions of Kyiv

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 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.

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."

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.