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 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!

Picture: (c) poezdka.de
 

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.
 

Babyn Iar / Babi Iar

Fax.: (38044) 228 63 66

Info Telefon: (38044) 228 06 05
Besucher-Email: ifukr@i.com.ua
http://www.kby.kiev.ua/komitet/ua/...

It was established in 2003 and is aimed at:
• establishment of the state historical-memorial park “Babyn Iar”;
foundation and opening of the state museum of Babyn Iar;
• erection of the national memorial in honour of Holocaust, fascism, and totalitarianism
victims.

The Institution was hit in 2022 by Putin's invasion troops.

 

Central Museum of Ukraine Armed Forces

Info Telefon: +38(044) 253-27-50

Kyiv Literary and Memorial House-Museum of Taras Shevchenko

Info Telefon: 278 3511

Sat-Thurs 10am-6pm.

This one-storied timber house with an attic, situated in the very heart of Ukraine's capital nearby the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), is the first literary and memorial museum of the great Ukrainian poet T. Shevchenko, or Kobzar as he is also called. The interiors of the room and the studio at the attic where he lived and created in 1846 have been restored according to the recollections of his contemporaries. On display here are personal belongings of the poet, the autographs, first printed books and photographs of that period, devices for drawing and engraving. Shevchenko's etchings and watercolours, as well as the works and engravings by the artists of those times, depict the landscapes of the then Kyiv.
 

Museum of the History of Kiew

Info Telefon: (+38 044) 278-13-47, 278-12-02

ATTENTION: TEMPORARYLY CLOSED FOR VISITORS.