"Best Museums in Kyiv"

 Best Museums in Kyiv

Museum of the History of Kyiv. The portraits of scientists, cultural workers and artists as well as ordinary inhabitants of the city, who walked along its streets a hundred years ago, lived in it and created exactly the unique Kyiv, which our contemporaries take pride in are of great value. The museum continues to collect, study and popularize materials about the life of Kyiv and its citizens for centuries.

Museum of the History of Ukraine This museum is one of the best museums in Ukraine. The museum collection stores more than 800 thousand unique historical and cultural monuments.

The National Art Museum of Ukraine40 thousand exhibits, one of the richest collections of icon painting in Ukraine, works of classical painters of the XIX century, collection of graphics from Kyivan Rus to the present day, contemporary paintings, including the Ukrainian avant-garde – this is what the National Art Museum of Ukraine offers its visitors today.

Pinchuk Art Center. Pinchuk Art Center, international center for contemporary art, a new facet of demonstration of contemporary art in XXI century.

Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Art. In the Khanenko Museum you will see paintings that have gained worldwide fame. 

Museum of Water. You can learn everything that is possible about water: its movement under the ground, the transition of liquids to different aggregate states, visitors will even be told how to save water in everyday life. But the museum is highly valued mainly because of its excellent entertainment program, thanks to which children want to come back again and again.

Museum of Toilets. One of the most unusual museums in Kyiv is the museum of the history of the toilet.

The Museum of Chernobyl This museum is the main source of tourist information about the Chernobyl accident and its main monument.

Ukraine State Aviation Museum. There are dozens of exhibits that include both widespread and rare models in a single copy.

Microminiature Museum. You can see a caravan of golden camels into the eye of a needle, and engraved notes on a glass petal of a chrysanthemum– a fragment of Polonaise of Oginsky. 

Museum of Historical Treasures. The museum features a collection of different things – from jewelry to clothes and military equipment. The museum exposition covers a large period of time – from the 9th century BC up to the 20th century.