Museums in Kyiv

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National Historical Museum of Ukraine

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.

Art museums

National Folk Decorative Art Museum

The

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

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

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]

History museums

Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II

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]

National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943"

The

Surrealist pictures of the disaster.[2]

The

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]

Transportation museums

Vintage aircraft on display at the Ukraine State Aviation Museum, Kyiv

The

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.

Cultural museums

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

St Nicholas Cathedral, and Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
.

The

Ukraine National Beekeeping Museum
in Kyiv is one of the largest beekeeping museums in the world.

Infrastructure

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.

References

  1. ^ a b Hardaway 2011, p. 26.
  2. ^ a b c d e Evans & Pasquale 2013, p. 152.
  3. ^ a b Duca & Ragozin 2012, p. 43.
  4. ^ Himka 2009, p. 94.
  5. ^ Pevny 2000, p. 106.
  6. ^ "Khanenko Museum". History (in Ukrainian). official website of Khanenko Museum. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  7. ^ Bloom & Blair2009, p. 438.
  8. ^ Evans & Pasquale 2013, p. 153.
  9. ^ Grotowski 2010, p. 298.
  10. ^ "Mission:PinchukArtCentre". PinchukArtCentre Organization. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  11. ^ "Ivan Honchar Museum". Ivan Honchar Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  12. ^ "Mystetskyi Arsenal Official Website". Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  13. ^ a b "History of the Museum". War Museum Kyiv. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  14. ^ a b Evans & Pasquale 2013, p. 154.
  15. ^ "The Ukrainian National Museum of History". Official website of Kyiv city. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  16. ^ Newsletter. ACRL. 2004. p. 78.
  17. ^ a b c "80-річчю Державного архіву Київської області присвячується (80th Anniversary State Archives Kyiv region dedicated to)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). archives.gov.ua. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  18. ^ a b Cornelis 2004, p. 202.
  19. ^ Nikoloz Bezhanishvili (3 July 2015). "Tamada Travels: Ukraine's Toilet History Museum". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  20. ^ Nikoloz Bezhanishvili and Giorgi Lomsadze (21 September 2015). "A long history of toilets in Ukraine museum". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  21. ^ a b "The State Aviation Museum (Zhuliany)". Official website of Aviation Museum. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  22. ^ Mashkevich, Stefan. "THE KYIV MUSEUM OF ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION". mashke.org. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  23. ^ "Kyiv Fortress Museum - Unique Semi-Underground Museum". Ukraine.com. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  24. ^ "Technology museums in Ukraine". State Polytechnic Museum. Retrieved 25 October 2013.

Bibliography

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