Національний музей мистецтв ім. Богдана та Варвари Ханенків

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The National Center for Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum” is an open cultural and artistic institution of educational, scientific and recreational type, which promotes the continuity of experience and knowledge in the field of traditional folk culture. The museum was founded on the basis of a private collection and the principles of the artist and ethnographer Ivan Honchar's work. The museum is located in the center of Kyiv on one of its picturesque hills above the Dnipro River. The main exhibition is closed for reconstruction. However, the museum promotes traditional culture through various platforms, including many digital initiatives: part of the museum collection is available online, and there are online exhibitions. Top 5 exhibits: Crimean Zaporozhets. Cossack Mamai, by an unknown author. XVIII - first half of the XIX centuryPoltava region. Velykobahachanskyi district, Ostapie village Oil on canvas 77 x 131 Icon “St. Stephen, Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and John the Theologian, St. Barbara” second half of the nineteenth century Provenance unknown Oil on canvas 61.4 x 142.5 A woman's wedding dress. XIX - early XX centuries Poltava region, Myrhorod district Towel “monk” embroidered with red and black threads second half of the nineteenth century Cherkasy region, Chyhyryn district, Shabelnyky village Woven hemp cloth, backing; towel seams 297 x 43 Ceramic bowl 1920s-30s Khmelnytskyi region, Dunayevets district, Smotrych village Clay, glaze, angobes; potter's wheel, painted h=10.2; d2=29.3; d=10.3

The National Museum of Medicine of Ukraine is one of the largest medical museums not only in Ukraine but also in Europe. The museum presents the development of medicine in Ukraine from ancient times to the present day. The museum's organization was based on the latest concept of museology, which allowed the use of scientific, methodological and documentary materials and exhibits in combination with architectural, artistic, technical and audiovisual means. In addition to the stand exposition, the museum has created original interiors with portrait figures of famous scientists and doctors and dioramas dedicated to the most significant events in Ukrainian medicine. The museum's exposition also features a wide range of Ukrainian fine arts related to medical topics. In 1983, the work on the creation of this museum was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology. By the Decree of the President of Ukraine of February 15, 1999, it was granted the status of National Museum.

The modern museum, established in 1998, is the successor to the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the opening of its first exhibition, the guests included Olena Ott-Skoropadska, the daughter of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi. This is the only institution in Ukraine that covers the history of the creation and development of military affairs in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the present day. The permanent exhibition is divided into several parts: Military affairs on the territory of Ukraine in ancient times, which presents artifacts of Celtic, Scythian, Sarmatian tribes; The Russian army: Princely Statehood (XI-XIII centuries) - devoted to the development of military equipment in the Middle Ages; Zaporizhzhya Sich and the Cossack State (Hetmanate) (XVI - XVIIІ centuries); Ukrainians in the First World War (1914-1918); national armed formations of the Ukrainian Revolution (1917-1921); Ukrainians in the armed forces of the USSR in the 1920s-1940s; Ukrainians in the armies of the states participating in the Second World War (1939-1945). Ukrainian liberation movement; Ukrainians' participation in military conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century, including models of new powerful military equipment, the history of the war in Afghanistan; Ukrainian army in countering Russian aggression: annexation of Crimea, ATO/JFO since 2014. The museum has 5 other branches in different regions of Ukraine.

Are you visiting Ukraine but don't have enough free time to see the whole of our famous country? Visit our park “Ukraine in Miniature” located in the very center of Kyiv, in a picturesque place on the banks of the Dnipro River, on the Hydropark Island. In the Ukraine in Miniature park you will discover the whole of Ukraine: you will see unforgettable palaces of Crimea, mountains and castles of Western Ukraine, Podillia fortresses and sights of Odesa, as well as all the historical places of Kyiv. Our models are made on a scale of 1:33. The mini town has its own mini Khreshchatyk with Independence Square, and the mini Dnipro crosses five main bridges: Moskovsky, Pedestrian, Paton, Metro, and Pivdennyi. The parks and squares of mini-Kyiv are home to monuments to the most famous figures of Ukrainian culture, politics, and art, and planes from all over the world have landed at Boryspil Airport. Currently, the population of mini Ukraine is more than 700 and growing every day.

The museum is about the life, work and public activities of prominent Ukrainians: the Kosach, Starytsky, Lysenko, Franko and Tobilevych families. The museum's expositions tell about the contribution and influence of prominent personalities on the preservation, research, development of Ukraine's true elite culture and the development of Ukrainian statehood. The place near the center of Kyiv, where the families of Lesya Ukrainka, Mykola Lysenko, Mykhailo Starytskyi, Panas Saksahanskii, and Ivan Franko lived, is called Ukrainian Parnassus. This is a place where you can not only discover pages from the lives of true Ukrainian geniuses unknown to the general public, but also have fun and enjoy your time. The museum is located near the city center at 93-97 Saksahanskoho Street. You can get there on foot or by public transport from the Universytet, Vokzalna, and Palats Sportu metro stations. Ticket price: Lesya Ukrainka House Museum - 60/30 UAH House-museum of Mykhailo Starytskyi - 60/30 UAH Mykola Lysenko House Museum - 60/30 UAH Permanent exhibition “Ivan Franko and Kyiv” - 60/30 UAH.

In 1908, Mykhajlo Hrushevsky purchased the estate at 9 Pankivska Street. After the war, only an outbuilding survived, and in 1992, a memorial museum to the prominent Ukrainian figure was set up in 3 rooms. However, it was opened only in 2006 in honor of the 140th anniversary of Hrushevsky's birth. Now it is a branch of the Kyiv History Museum. Thanks to the preserved photographs, it was possible to recreate the interiors of the scientist's office, living room, and daughter's room, where visitors can see authentic furniture, household items, personal documents, manuscripts, letters, the most complete collection of Hrushevsky's works and editions edited by him in Ukraine; books from the family library, etc. In addition, the museum has a five-thousand-piece collection of photographic documents with the oldest photographs dating back to 1876. It also hosts exhibitions of famous Ukrainian artists, project presentations, conferences, and seminars. In summer, guests gather on the terrace for coffee and philosophical conversations about art. Other thematic interactions of the museum include the Hrushevsky Garden Party festival, a walk through the Botanical Garden “Romantic Dates with Mykhajlo Hrushevsky,” theatrical tours and performances, hiking routes, guided tours, and more.

The museum's exposition in the early 19th-century house tells about Pushkin's stay in Kyiv and the city at that time. Documents, books, prints, furniture, porcelain, beadwork, and other items represent the world of the Kyiv nobility of the 18th and 19th centuries.

A bas-relief portrait of Maya Plisetska on a cherry pit, a caravan of golden camels in the eye of a needle, a rose in a hair cut, and finally the most famous horseshoe flea. All of these are unique works by Ukrainian Mykola Syadrystyi, which can be seen in his museum at the Kyiv Cave Monastery. Our countryman is the best miniature painter in the world. And he deserved this title due to the uniqueness and complexity of his works - handmade, extremely precise execution and author's technology.

The National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery” is one of the most prominent art museums in Ukraine, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2022. Despite the extremely difficult situation related to the invasion of Russian troops and the declaration of martial law in Ukraine, the museum did not stop its activities, perceiving it as its contribution to the future victory, protection of our country's interests on the cultural front, the struggle for spirituality, liberation from the consequences of imperial colonial policy, restoration of historical justice, and affirmation of the image of a Ukrainian as a European enriched by his or her own history, original culture, and art. Even after the damage to the museum building caused by a rocket attack in the center of Kyiv, the museum has not stopped its activities, continuing to work on both Ukrainian and international projects. The museum is not only one of the oldest museums in Kyiv, but also one of the most beloved. Its collection is one of the richest among Ukrainian art museums. It includes more than 14,000 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, and decorative and applied arts. Among the most famous museum monuments are icons of the XIII-XVII centuries, portraits by V.G. Borovikovsky and D.G. Levytsky, beautiful collections of landscape paintings by I.K. Aivazovsky, M.M. Ge, I.I. Shishkin, V.M. Vasnetsov. Brilliant collections of works by I.E. Repin, N.A. Vrubel, artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as works by contemporary Ukrainian artists - witnesses of the present, which in an artistic form reproduce the impression of current events in Ukraine, the trials that have fallen to its lot. By preserving and popularizing examples of classical art, the museum strives to be at the forefront of modernity. In times of war, the organization of exhibitions of contemporary paintings and other artistic events became the main form of activity of the National Art Gallery, a means of reflecting current issues through the prism of the view of the best artists of contemporary Ukraine.

The Museum of the Formation of the Ukrainian Nation is the first innovative history museum in Ukraine, which was opened in 2019 in the main building of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. The 1700-square-meter space features 25 story compositions with more than a hundred 3D figures and 300 paintings, photographs, and dioramas dedicated to the history of Ukraine from Trypillian culture to the present day. Each installation is accompanied by interactive audio and video elements combined with special effects. All of this is based on historical research and the latest technology. Information on museum accessibility was provided by the Inclusive travels in Ukraine project (https://travels.in.ua/).