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A small-scale Kyiv

A small-scale Kyiv
This private collection presents the famous Kyiv buildings in miniature. Do not miss the unique opportunity to see them from a bird’s eye view without flying. Read_on (No Comments)

Bulgakov Museum

Bulgakov Museum
The celebrated Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov lived in this house from 1906-1916 and again from 1918-1919. It was here that he wrote the novel The White Guard and the play Days of Turbins. Read_on (No Comments)

Cossack’s Sattlement Mamajeva Sloboda

Cossack’s Sattlement Mamajeva Sloboda
In the middle of XVII century French engineer and cartographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan said “Ukraina est Terra Cosacorum” (Ukraine is a Land of Cossacs). Read_on (No Comments)

Cultural Heritage Museum

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Exposition dedicated to Ukrainian artists, writers and actors who have worked abroad. Read_on (No Comments)

Folk Architecture and Life Museum

Folk Architecture and Life Museum
There is a place in Kyiv where you can say “Let’s go to the 16th century Carpathians” and then find yourself there in a matter of minutes. Read_on (2 Comments)

Ivan Honchar’s Museum, Ukrainian Centre of Folk Art

Ivan Honchar’s Museum, Ukrainian Centre of Folk Art
The Museum was founded in September 1993 and is based on Ivan Honchar's (1911-1993) private collection. During the Soviet period he was accused of nationalism. Read_on (No Comments)

Kyiv Fortress Museum

Kyiv Fortress Museum
This part of the city's fortifications was built in 1844. Arguably, this structure's history has more do with defenseless people rather than defending people. Read_on (No Comments)

Memorial Museum of Zankovets’ka

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Maria Zankovets’ka was a prominent Ukrainian actress at the turn of the 20th century. Her original art comprised the greatest achivements of the Ukrainian theatre culture. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum of Modern Ukrainian Fine Arts Collection

Museum of Modern Ukrainian Fine Arts Collection
On the 17th of June 2005 the first Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine has hospitably greeted its visitors. First it was founded in a historical part of Kyiv, but in December 2009 the Museum moved to a new three-stories building at Glybochytska 17. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum of Russian Art

Museum of Russian Art
Outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg, one of the largest collections of Russian art is housed here. The building belonged to the upper-class Tereschenko family and was built in the 1880s. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum of the Great Patriotic War

Museum of the Great Patriotic War
This World War II memorial complex, which opened in 1981, includes a museum with 18 different galleries, an eternal flame, plaques honouring particularly heroic Soviet cities and an outdoor display containing military planes and other equipment from various wars. Read_on (1 Comment)

National Art Museum

National Art Museum
Built in the late 19th century in the style of a Greek temple with a six-column portico designed by Kyiv architects Horodets’kyi and Boytsov, valuable collections largely unknown to Western visitors are contained in the museum’s 21 galleries. Read_on (No Comments)

National History Museum

National History Museum
Located on a bluff above Andriivs’kyi uzviz, this museum carries forth on a wide range of topics concerning Ukraine’s history from prehistoric times up to the present day. Read_on (No Comments)

National Museum of Chernobyl

National Museum of Chernobyl
This museum does an excellent job of actually making you feel like you are at the site of the infamous nuclear accident. Road Read_on (No Comments)

The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Arts

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The house was owned by a famous collector of art and benefactor Bohdan Khanenko (1849-1917), and his wife Varvara (1852-1922). Read_on (No Comments)

The Museum of Hetmanship

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More than 2000 exhibits are on permanent display in four halls. The museum also hosts special, limited-time exhibitions. Read_on (No Comments)

The National Museum "Memorial in Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine"

The National Museum "Memorial in Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine"
 During the whole existence of the Soviet Union regime Ukrainian people endured horrible tragedies - famines of 1921-1922, 1932-1933, 1946-1947, which took millions of Ukrainian's lives. Read_on (No Comments)

The One Street Museum

The One Street Museum
This fascinating little museum near the bottom of Andriivs’kyi uzviz tells the rich history of this important street through the years. Read_on (No Comments)

The Pharmacy Museum

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You may be wondering just how much enjoyment can be had out of a museum whose sole subject is the history of pharmaceuticals, Read_on (No Comments)

The Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine

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This museum is the first private art museum in Ukraine. In bright spacious halls of museum more than 300 first class works of Read_on (No Comments)

The Ukrainian Culture Celebrities Museum

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The museum was organised in 1987. It incorporates four memorial museums with preserved territory of garbed zone. Main elements Read_on (No Comments)

Toys museum

Toys museum
This museum is located on the ground floor of the State Centre of the out of School Education. The first hall has collections Read_on (No Comments)

Water Information Centre

Water Information Centre
Anyone strolling through Khreschatyi Park (above European Square and The Philharmonic) will notice the two towers rising above the tree line. Read_on (No Comments)