Museum of Modern Ukrainian Fine Arts Collection (Private museum)

Info Telefon: 463 76 69

10:00-18:00 h
Mon: Closed
Sat: 11:00-18:00 h
Sun: 11:00-18:00 h

The opening of this first non-governmental Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts of Ukraine took place in June 2005. The museum displays the works by well-known Ukrainian artists created after the 1930s. The museum's collection numbers over 3,500 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and items of arts and crafts. It is permanently replenished with new efforts by the present-day artists.
 

Museum of St. Michael Monastery

Info Telefon: +380-228 6 268

Tues-Sun 10-18 h, ticket office only open to 17 h.!

"The church complex on Mykhailovs’ka ploshcha in Kyiv, situated in the opposite of the Sophia
Cathedral, was originally built in 1108 and presents one of the biggest monasteries of medieval Kyivan Rus’. The monastery was destroyed 1934-1937 by the Soviet regime in order to build a Soviet huge government center in the old city in Kyiv which became the capital of Soviet Ukraine in 1934.
The museum of the St. Michaels Monastery, located in the bell tower, shows photographs and
documents on the destruction of the monastery’s complex as well as of its reconsruction in 1997-
2000 by the Ukrainian state leadership. In Ukrainian national memory the reconstruction of the monastery symbolizes the return of national cultural heritage repressed by Soviet power. Together with the monument to the victims of the Great Famine (Holodomor) 1932/1932 in the USSR near to the main entrance of the bell tower the area around the St. Michael’s monastery presents one of the most important places of memory of the totalitarian past in Ukraine." (Vademecum – Contemporary History Ukraine Berlin-Kyiv 2008)
 

Museum of Ukrainian Culture Celebrities

Tel.: 244 3618

Info Telefon: 289 57 52

11:00-17:00 h
Mon+ Tues closed

The Museum deals on the life and art of:
the poetess Lesya Ukrainka,
the composer Mykhailo Lysenko,
the drama theatre actor, producer and theatrical leader Panas Saksahans’kyi and
the writer Mykhailo Staryts’kyi.
 

Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Folk Art

Tel.: 254 3642

Info Telefon: 280 13 43

11:00-18:00 h
Tue: Closed

The collection of the museum was initiated in 1899. At present it consists of 75,000 articles of traditional folk and professional decorative art of Ukraine of the 15th-21st centuries. The exposition displays carpets, artistic weaving, embroidery, ceramics, wood engraving, chinaware, glass, decorated Easter eggs, ornaments, sets of Ukrainian folk costumes, and paintings by outstanding folk artists Kateryna Bilokur and Maria Priymachenko.
 

Museum of Western and Oriental Art

Tel.: 38-044-2350206

Info Telefon: 38-044-2353290

The Museum of Art goes back to the Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko collection and was founded in 1919. The museum is also called "The Museum of Western and Oriental Art". From 1919 onwards, the number of exhibits rose from 1,250 to nearly 17,000 artworks, with 2,000 pieces exposed. The museum is really an art museum; it contains

Egyptian,
Ancient Greek,
Roman,
Italian,
French,
Spanish,
Flemish,
Dutch,
Japanese,
Chinese,
Persian and
Turkish art.

 

Museum Pharmacy

Tel.: +38(044) 425 4059

Info Telefon: +38(044) 425 24 37

09:00-16:00 h
Sun: Closed, open Sun only by appointment

The museum collection numbers over 50,000 exhibits. They include pharmacy furniture of the 18th-19th centuries; samples of glassware of various epochs; fragments of manuscripts of the Kievan Bus period; Russian, German and Polish pharmacopoeias of the 19th-20th centuries; textbooks of medicine, pharmacy and therapy of those times; prescription registers; personal archival documents of Kyiv chemists. At the underground vault is placed an exposition telling about the history of medicine and pharmacy: a hallcave, a Christian hall, a "hut of a sorceress", a wine-cellar, an alchemist's laboratory.
 

National Historical-Memorial Reserve “Bykivanians'ki mohyly” (Bykivnia Graves)

"About 100 – 120 thousands of the persecuted and executed by NKVS organs are buried in Bykivnia.
Bykivnia memorial comlex in honor of the Communist regime victims was opened in 1994. In 2001 the State Historical-Memorial Reserve “Bykivnia Graves” was created. In 2006 it got the “national” status." (Vademecum – Contemporary History Ukraine Berlin-Kyiv 2008)
 

National Museum of Chornobyl

Tel.: 380 44 425 3068

Info Telefon: 380 44 425 4329

Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00 h
Sat: 10:00-17:00 h
Sun: Closed

"The expo contains 7,000 items, among which
declassified documents, maps, photos. Documentary video films reconstruct the details of the nuclear accident of 1986 and its consequences." (Vademecum – Contemporary History Ukraine Berlin-Kyiv 2008)

NOT SUITED TO CHILDREN!

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Palace of Arts ''Ukrainian House''

Info Telefon: 278 3436
http://www.ukrdim.org.ua...

daily 9am-6pm.

St. Sophia Cathedral

Fri-Tues 10-18 h, Wed to 17 h.

Kyiws oldest church, many frescoes and mosaics are dating back to 10117-32. Entrance fee obligatory.