Museums In Kiev

Kiev offers some truly magnificent and interesting museums for you to visit during your stay in Kiev. We at Ukraine Connections will very happily arrange a tour for you, to enable you to visit the museums of your choice.

National History Museum
The museum exposition presents the development of society on the territory of Ukraine from ancient times till nowadays. Among the exhibits - household objects first Tripolye settlements, weapons and armor ancient Polovtzy material period of Kievan Rus, the era of Soviet power and the period of independence

Pirigove Folklore Open Air Architect Museum

Folklore Open Air Architect Museum
Folklore (Pirigovo) is the architectural and landscape complex out in the open. The exhibition area of 150 hectare covers all historical and ethnographic regions of Ukraine. Over 300 monuments of folk architecture XVI-XX centuries, were brought here from different regions of Ukraine: the middle Dnieper, Poltava, Slobozhanshchyna, Polesie, Podolia, the Carpathians and south of Ukraine.

Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine
The museum exhibits highly artistic articles made of platinum, gold, silver, decorated with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other precious stones. The exhibition includes a collection of Scythian gold, art products, Sarmatian tribes, jewelry and ancient Slavs of Kievan Rus', Byzantine and Iranian masters goods

National Art Museum of Ukraine
The Collection of the National Art Museum of Ukraine is the most extensive and complete collection of native art in Ukraine. In the museum masterpieces of Ukrainian painting, sculpture and graphics from the times of Kievan Rus until the present are on display

St Sophia Cathedral Museum
St. Sophia’s Cathedral is not only the oldest cathedral in Kiev, but by far the most spectacular. It is visited by thousands of tourists each year and is known as one of the most popular attractions in Kiev. Inside the gates waits a breathtaking world of buildings, a museum and historical treasures

Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Art
The museum exhibits works of folk and professional decorative arts of Ukraine from XV century to the present day. On display in the museum, which occupies an area of about 1500 meters, are all kinds of Ukrainian folk art: carpets, weaving, embroidery, ceramics, carving and painting, art, leather, horn, metal, glass, porcelain and the art of making Easter eggs, folk painting and iconography

Ukrainian Centre of Folk Culture
"Ivan Gonchar Museum"
The museum collection includes more than 15 thousand exhibits. This is a work of art, objects of ethnographic and artistic value. The exhibition includes: painting (folk painting, a collection of icons, professional painting, graphics), traditional fabrics (towels, embroidered shirts, outerwear, rugs), ceramics (Makitra, pots, bowls , toys), folk musical instruments (Kobza, Bandura, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy), Memorial Division (creative heritage of the founder of the museum, sculptor and painter, IM Gonchar).

National Museum of the Great Patriotic War
The museum exhibition devoted to the history of World War II, it is a priority in the Ukrainian theme, Ukraine's contribution to the victory over Nazism. In 16 halls of the museum's total area of 5000 m² deployed more than 15 thousand exhibits, including documents, personal belongings, weapons, photographs, banners, awards, letters, diaries, military equipment

Memorial of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945
Memorial of the Great Patriotic War, occupies an area of over 10 hectares. It includes the Museum of World War II monument to the Motherland ", the main square with a lane of city-heroes and the monument dedicated to forcing of the Dnieper" and "transfer of weapons," gallery of heroes of the front and rear with bronze high relief compositions, the cup, Flames of Glory " , an exhibition of military equipment

Kiev Fortress
Hospital stronghold of the Kiev fortress is a semi-underground building with a thick walls from brick and stone. Walls have cut-through embrasures and gun slots, on caponier perimeter on the rampart guns are installed. Fortress considered to be impregnable

Museum "Oblique Caponier"
Indoor caponiers hospital building of the Kiev fortress are 2 museums, the exhibition which tells about the history of the domestic and Kiev fortification with trypilska culture to this day, as well as about the history of the guardhouse, and have held once a political prison

Kiev Museum of Russian Art
Kiev museum of Russian art was founded in 1922. The basis of the collection was formed from nationalized after revolution of 1917 art values. Mainly it was the collection of Tereschenko family - first-rate manufacturers and patrons of art. Museum exposition displays painting of such famous authors as Shishkin, Repin, Vasnetsov, Vrubel, Rerih and Konchalovskiy

Museum of Cultural Heritage
The museum exhibition is devoted to the works of Ukrainian immigrants - here are artistic works, photographs, manuscripts, documents, personal items that once belonged to the Ukrainian artists, writers, and musicians

Museum "Chernobyl"
The museum exhibition "Chernobyl" tells of the largest in the history of nuclear power accident - the accident at the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986. The museum has collected about 7,000 pieces - are classified documents, maps, photographs, items of ethnic culture and personal belongings of participants of the liquidation of the accident

National Taras Shevchenko
In the exposition of the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko presented autographs and his personal belongings, paintings and drawings, books, pictures

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