The section «Museums» on our website is a detailed guide to the best museums in Kyiv. We tell about the history and culture of the city through the exhibits presented in museum collections. On the pages of our section you will find information about museums of all directions — from classical to modern and experimental. We talk about what collections and exhibitions are available at the moment, how to get to the museum, and what tickets you need to purchase. You can learn about interesting excursions, lectures and events held in the museums of Kyiv. We constantly update information so that our readers can always be aware of all museum events in the city. If you want to expand your knowledge about Kyiv, we recommend that you look into our «Museums» section.
Apartment No. 3 on Tereshchenkovskaya Street 5 in post-war Kyiv was known among the Ukrainian intelligentsia and creative youth thanks to its owner, Pavel Grigorievich Tychyna. These 5 rooms witnessed the poet’s creative quest, poetic ups and downs for more than two decades (1944-1967). After the death of Pavel Tychyna (September 16, 1967), Lydia Petrovna … Read more
The Military History Museum of the Ivan Chernyakhovsky University of Defense of Ukraine was created on July 25, 1992. Currently, on two open areas of the university museum there are about 60 museum exhibits of military equipment and weapons, dating from the period before and during the Great Patriotic War. Among them: armored and automotive … Read more
The Sixties is the name of a new generation of Soviet and Ukrainian national intelligentsia, which appeared in culture and politics in the second half of the 1950s – during the period of temporary weakening of communist-Bolshevik totalitarianism and Khrushchev’s “thaw” (de-Stalinization and some liberalization) and reached maximum popularity at the beginning and mid-1960s (hence … Read more
Among the outstanding writers of the past, whose work has stood the test of time and entered the treasury of world culture, the classic of Jewish literature Sholom Aleichem (Rabinovich Solomon Naumovich) occupies an honorable place. In March 2009, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the writer’s birth, his museum was opened, which the … Read more
The history of the museum’s creation dates back to 1922, on the day of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the artist’s stage activity. Even then, the anniversary commission asked the People’s Commissariat of Education of the USSR to open a museum. Maria Konstantinovna was the first among the actors who were approached by … Read more
Initially, there was a small collection, which its owner, businessman and philanthropist Sergei Tsyupko, began collecting 20 years ago. The basis was non-figurative painting by contemporary Ukrainian artists. Then a desire arose to expand the time and geographical scope of the collection, but focusing specifically on the art of Ukraine from the second half of … Read more