Museums in Kyiv , Ukraine include museums of art, history, transportation, and religion. They constitute an important aspect of Kyiv's focus on knowledge, culture, and history.
Museums in Kyiv , Ukraine include museums of art, history, transportation, and religion. They constitute an important aspect of Kyiv's focus on knowledge, culture, and history.
The National Art Museum of Ukraine is dedicated to Ukrainian art. Built in the 19th century, the museum has the appearance of a Greek temple. [1] It was previously the Museum of History, which held many important historical artefacts. Following the nationalisation of all works of art in the Soviet Union, the museum acquired a large collection of artworks. [2] The museum's exhibits are displayed in twenty-one galleries, representing the icons and sculpture of Ukraine, alongside paintings by artists such as Taras Shevchenko, Kyriak Kostandi, and Mykola Pymonenko. [1] There are artefacts from the Medieval period (the 14th to 19th centuries), [3] ), the Romantic period (the 18th and 19th centuries), and the modern era. The museum possesses sketches by Shevchenko,[ clarification needed ] paintings of the socialist era of the Soviet Union, and posters of the Revolutionary period. [2] The museum houses the pre-19th century wooden icon of the 'Last Judgment', which was previously kept in Kyiv's St. Michael Monastery. [4] The small icon of Saint George which was located in the store room of a museum in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was restored by L.H. Chlenova and I.P. Dorofuenko and transferred to Kyiv, under the supervision of Nikolai V. Pertsev, who was also involved in the initial restoration of the museum. [5]
The Pyrohovo Open Air Museum showcases Ukraine's folk decorative arts. It has churches, barns, windmills, huts, and craft exhibits. Guides dressed in regional village costume explain aspects of village life. [2]
The Museum of Western and Oriental Art, also known as the Museum of Art of Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko, is a treasure house of artefacts from Ukraine and around the world. [6] The museum possesses ceramics dating from the 9th century, and glazed tiles from the 14th to 17th centuries. There are some bronzes and embroidery work. [7] In the western wing of the museum among the rare Byzantine antiquaries there is also an impressive painting of Hieronymus Bosch's Temptation of St Anthony. There are four unique religious artefacts dated from the 6th and 7th centuries on the top floor, and items of Greek sculpture. The eastern wing has exhibits of art related to Buddhism, Islam and Chinese culture. [3] The building gives an impression of a bourgeois mansion, with post-Renaissance, Western European paintings and portraits by Rubens, Velázquez, Joshua Reynolds and Jacques-Louis David. The building is architecturally important and many pieces of furniture in the museum are pieces of art. [8] The museum possesses an important 6th-century icon of Sergius and Bacchus, brought from Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai by Bishop Uspensky. [9]
Other art museums in Kyiv include the Pinchuk Art Centre, a museum dedicated to Eastern European art and culture, which is privately owned by Viktor Pinchuk. It is an international centre for the display of contemporary art. [10] The Ivan Honchar Museum was established in Kyiv in September 1993 to exhibit the personal collection of Ivan Makarovych Honchar. Its aim is to promote the national culture of Ukraine, with an emphasis on Ukrainian art and ethnography. [11] The Mystetskyi Arsenal is an art exhibition space. [12]
The Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II is a complex which commemorates the Eastern Front of World War II. [13] Its collection consists of about 300,000 pieces, and it has been visited by over 24 million visitors. [13]
The National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943" is dedicated to the Kyiv Strategic Offensive Operation of autumn 1943. The museum exposition narrates the events of the autumn of 1943, the Battle of the Dnieper and the Lyutezh Offensive Operation during the Battle of Kiev (1943). The Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum in Podil is a striking display of the tragedy of the nuclear disaster. [2] The symbolic representation of many old road signs of the deserted towns and cities are stated to give an eerie feeling, and there are a number of Surrealist pictures of the disaster. [2]
The National Historical Museum of Ukraine is a national heritage museum dedicated to the theme of Ukrainian independence. The museum highlights the struggle for independence tracing back from the Slavic times to the present. [14] The museum, which opened in 1904, was shifted to Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in 1935 and later during the war to Ufa, and after the war the collections were moved back to Kyiv to the present location. It has many archeological artifacts found locally, apart from ethnographical and numismatic exhibits, paintings and sculptures, old books and many other artifacts. The exhibits also trace the ancient history of Ukraine from the time of Trypillya settlements, weaponry of ancient Polovtsy, artifacts of Kievan Rus period, the Soviet rule and also of the Orange Revolution, and to the present. Exhibits related to nationally renowned dancer Serge Lifar are also on display here. [15] The first foundation stone of the church in Kyiv, built in 989, is located in the precincts of the museum. [14] The church was destroyed by the Mongols in 1240 and was never reconstructed.
The Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period was a brief Nazi propaganda museum that was established by German occupants in Ukraine in 1942. [16] to October 1942. [17] The expositions were oriented specifically to "achievements" of the German occupation and crimes of Joseph Stalin's regime. [17] The museum's director was the Ukrainian historian and former mayor Oleksandr Ohloblyn who used this opportunity to organize an exhibition about cultural monuments destroyed by Bolsheviks. [18] Several historians, such as Oleksandr Hruzynsky, Svitozar Drahomanov, Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko etc., were appointed scientific advisors of the museum, but it was not very successful, [17] and was soon closed and did not reopen. [18]
The Toilet History Museum, located in the Kyiv Fortress, opened in 2006. It contains the largest collection of toilet-related souvenirs in the world and chronicles the history of the toilet from pre-biblical times to the present. [19] [20]
The Ukraine State Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located next to Zhulyany Airport in Kyiv, which was inaugurated on 30 September 2003 by Leonid Kuchma, the President of Ukraine at the time. [21] Its location was formerly the Educational Air Base of KIIGA. The museum offers some 70 exhibits on aircraft and helicopters, growing from an initial collection of about 30. The museum is one of the larger aviation museums displaying items related to Soviet aircraft development in the 20th century. On display is an exclusive "Backfire Collection" including Tu-22M missile-bombers, MiGs, and Jets etc. The primary functional parts of aircraft on display in the museum are stated to be in working condition. [21]
The Kyiv Railway Museum is situated at the Kyïv-Passazhirskyi Station. The Kyiv Museum of Electric Transportation, originally Kyiv Tram History Museum, was founded in 1992, [22] The Kyiv Subway Museum is also of note.
Kyiv fortress is a 19th-century fortification complex. The buildings later being used as barracks, and for storage and incarceration facilities. The Kosyi Kaponir became a prison for the political inmates in the 1900s–1920s and was later turned into a Soviet museum, now a Ukrainian modern museum. A small fortress built in 1872 on Lysa Hora (Bald Mountain), and in 1906 became a place of executions for convicted political inmates. It is now a landscape reserve and part of the museum complex. [23] The Kudriavtsi manor museum dedicated to life in Kyiv during the first half of the 19th century is situated in the house a writer Mikhail Bulhakov used to live. Its exhibition is largely centered around another contemporary writer Alexander Pushkin with an intravital edition of “Yevgeniy Onegin” is among the exhibits. It contains author signs of the poet's friends and contemporaries – not just literary men, but also famous politicians and statesmen.
Other cultural museums include Mamayeva Sloboda, Mikhail Bulgakov Museum, Museum of Cultural Heritage in Kyiv, One Street Museum, Pyrohiv, Savka House and several museums dedicated to celebrities of Ukrainian Culture, primarily on writers, such as Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture, Maxym Rylsky Museum, Pavlo Tychyna Museum, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Memorial Museum, Maria Zankovetska Museum. In addition, several churches have museums within their complexes, such as St Andrew's Church, St Sophia Cathedral, St Cyril Church, St Nicholas Cathedral, and Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
The Ukraine National Beekeeping Museum in Kyiv is one of the largest beekeeping museums in the world.
There are several museums dedicated to the city's infrastructure, including Building of Pedagogical Museum, Kyiv Fire Service Museum, Kyiv Pharmacy Museum, Kyiv Recycling Museum, Kyiv Sewer Museum, Kyiv Water Museum, and the National Museum of Health Care in Kyiv. [24]
The Water Museum (Water-information Centre) is one of the most popular cultural institutions in Kyiv. It is located in the very centre of the city in Khreshchatyi Park. The Water Museum was established in 2003 in order to improve people's awareness about water resources and their value for the community.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, (CSMVS) originally named Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, is a museum in Mumbai (Bombay) which documents the history of India from prehistoric to modern times.
The National Museum in New Delhi, also known as the National Museum of India, is one of the largest museums in India. Established in 1949, it holds a variety of articles ranging from pre-historic era to modern works of art. It functions under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The museum is situated on Janpath. The blue–print of the National Museum had been prepared by the Gwyer Committee set up by the Government of India in 1946. The museum has around 200,000 works of art, mostly Indian, but some of foreign origin, covering over 5,000 years.
Ivan Honchar Museum is a museum in Kyiv, Ukraine showcasing the culture of Ukraine and preserving Ukrainian folk art.
The Khanenko Museum is an art museum located in Kyiv, in Ukraine, which holds the biggest and most valuable collections of European, Asian and Ancient art in the country.
PinchukArtCentre is a private contemporary art centre, located in Kyiv with a collection of works by Ukrainian and international artists. The museum was opened on 16 September 2006 by the steel billionaire Victor Pinchuk.
Arsen Savadov is a Ukrainian conceptualist photographer and painter of Armenian descent. Participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.
The National Folk Decorative Art Museum is a national museum dedicated to folk and decorative art in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine illustrates Ukraine's history from ancient times till nowadays. It is one of the leading museums in Ukraine. It holds about 800 000 items in its collection, approximately 22 000 exhibits on permanent display. The museum holds world-famous archaeological, numismatic, ethnographic and weapons collections, pieces of decorative and applied arts, manuscripts, prints, paintings and graphics, relics of the Ukrainian national liberation movement of the 20th century.
Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery is the largest art museum in Ukraine, with over 62,000 artworks in its collection, including works of Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, French, German, Dutch and Flemish, Spanish, Austrian and other European artists. The artwork is currently divided into three major collections, housed in the historic Lozynsky and Potocki Palaces, while the Gallery additionally has the charge of fifteen small museums and historical buildings in or close to Lviv.
The National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943", is a museum dedicated to the Kyiv Strategic Offensive Operation of autumn 1943. The museum is located on the outskirts of the village of Novi Petrivtsi, Vyshhorod Raion of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Municipal Museum of Algeciras is a museum in Algeciras, Spain, located at the northern end of the Parque de las Acacias de Algeciras. It was established in 1995 and is run by the city's cultural department. It houses a large collection of archaeological items which were found in different parts of the city. With its two main divisions, archaeology and history, the museum documents three periods in the city's history: Roman-Byzantine Algeciras, the Andalusian city, and the modern era. A third division, religious art, is located in the Capilla del Cristo de la Alameda.
Kostіantyn Doroshenko, Kostyantyn is a Ukraine Art critic, publicist, contemporary art curator, media manager, radio host. Doroshenko is well known as a cultural and social journalist published in Ukraine, Australia, Azerbaijan, Italy, etc.; as a radio host of talk radio station Radio Visti, columnist of "Public: Culture" (Ukraine); as a curator of the Research Platform PinchukArtCentre ; and as the author of the books 'The End of the Late Iron Age' and 'Aria of Mary'. He is one of the most influential Ukrainian art curators and art critics of Ukraine according to Art Ukraine magazine and Focus magazine. He is also a member of the World League "Mind without drugs". On 1 April 2017, K. Doroshenko was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic Užupis among art critics of the world.
Varvara Nikolovna Khanenko was the eldest daughter of the entrepreneur, sugar king, philanthropist and collector Nikola Tereshchenko. Home schooled, she was interested, like her father, in art. She was Bogdan Khanenko's wife.
The National Museum of Ceramics Duca Di Martina is a historical and artistic site situated inside of the Villa Floridiana Park in Naples, Italy. The building used to be one of Campania’s Bourbon royal residences and since 1927 this residence has hosted the museum.
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The Toilet History Museum is a private museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, that contains the largest collection of toilet-related souvenirs and items in the world, including historic chamber pots, squatting pans, and urinals. The museum was founded in 2006 by a Ukrainian couple who worked in the plumbing business and is currently housed in a building within the Kyiv Fortress. In 2016, the Guinness World Records recognized it as "the largest collection of souvenir toilet bowls in the world".
Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, also known as Mystetskyi Arsenal — is Ukraine's flagship public cultural institution, a museum and art exhibition complex located at 10–12 Lavrska Street, in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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