Attractions of Kyiv region

The first state science museum was opened in 2020 by the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the territory of the VDNH National Expocenter of Ukrainein Kyiv. The exposition demonstrates the most important scientific achievements of mankind, the laws of nature and their interaction in an understandable and accessible form.

The museum space is divided into five zones, where you can get to know individual branches of science. The "Strange Matter" zone is dedicated to materials science and work with the tiniest particles of matter - molecules and atoms. In the "Acoustics" zone, you can see your voice and hear it through acoustic mirrors. Interactive tables in the "Human" area allow you to look inside living organisms. The "Optics" zone invites you to discover the world of color and learn what light is made of. In the "Great Inventions" zone, you can see a bicycle with square wheels and learn about the discoveries of four of the most famous Ukrainian scientists.

Acquaintance with the exhibits takes place in the form of free exploration of the space without the help of tour guides, but interpreters work near the exhibits, who are happy to help find answers to all questions.

The Museum of Theater, Music and Cinematography of Ukraine was founded in Kyiv in 1923 as a theater museum at the Berezil Art Association, headed by a prominent figure in the Ukrainian theater Les Kurbas.

It is located on the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, in an adapted room of the former Lavra infirmary.

The exhibition tells the history of theater in Ukraine from its inception in ancient folk art to the early twentieth century. The creative activity of the constellation of luminaries of the Ukrainian theater is presented: Marko Kropyvnytsky, Mykhaylo Starytsky, Ivan Karpenko-Kary, Mykola Sadovsky, Panas Saksahansky, Mariya Zankovetska.

A separate exhibition is dedicated to the life and career of the genius Ukrainian actor and world-class director-innovator Lesya Kurbas.

The exhibition "Ukrainian Film Genesis" presents the history of the origin and formation of national cinema.

The museum also has unique collections of Ukrainian folk musical instruments and rare Ukrainian nativity scenes with dolls.

Sightseeing, thematic and interactive music excursions, children's master classes are carried out.

The Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora, which tells about the fate of Ukrainian immigrants, is located in an ancient Kyiv mansion of the 19th century.

Here are presented documents, photographs and some personal belongings that once belonged to Ukrainian artists, writers, and musicians who at various times were forced to leave their homeland.

Several halls of the museum are dedicated to the work of immigrant artists: Lyudmyla Morozova, Oleksa Bulavnytsky, Vadym Dobrolizh and others. The largest exposition is dedicated to the life and work of the famous ballet master and dancer Serzh Lyfar.

The "Museum of One Nation on Poshtova Square" in Kyiv is a public initiative to preserve and popularize the archaeological site of Ancient Kyiv - the remains of the medieval coastal quarter in the underground space of Poshtova Square.

According to historians, it was at this place, by order of Prince Volodymyr Svyatoslavych, that pagan idols were thrown into the Dnipro River, and it was here in 988 that the mass baptism of the people of Kyiv took place.

In the spring of 2015, during the construction of an underground shopping and entertainment center on Poshtova Square, a street from the time of Kyivan Rus (XI-XII centuries) was excavated. Found parts of wooden houses and workshops, remains of the customs house, old stockades, fragments of ceramic dishes, princely seals, weapons, jewelry, etc. Separately, a wooden fortification building of the 17th century was found - the remains of the Khreshchatyk gate tower.

The construction of the shopping center was stopped, and archaeological research and conservation of the monument began. In 2019, the archaeological site "Section of the Coastal City Quarter of Medieval Kyiv" received the status of a monument of national importance. Discussions about museification are still ongoing.

"Museum on Poshtova Square" was founded in 2019 as an open-air historical museum by members of the initiative group of the public movement, which came out in defense of the monument of archeology and history of national importance on Poshtova Square in June 2018 for the preservation and development of the monument. In February 2022, it was registered as the Public Organization "Museum of One Nation on Poshtova Square".

Activists of the public organization "Museum of One Nation on Poshtova Square" conduct regular tours of the underground space. Here you can see the remains of the medieval coastal quarter, visit the exhibition "Kyiv History of Bricks" and the photo exhibition "De-Occupied" by the famous photographer Victoria Skuratovska.

Pre-registration is required to get on the tour. The entrance to the location is opposite the funicular, to the left of the entrance to the Church of the Nativity of Christ.

The Znoba-Holembiyevsky creative dynasty museum-workshop was created in 2006 in the house on Pechersk in Kyiv, where since 1965 the Ukrainian sculptor, People's Artist of Ukraine Valentyn Znoba lived with his wife, the artist Tetyana Holembiyevska.

The exhibition presents a large collection of author's sculptures of three generations of artists - Ivan Znoba, Valentin Znoba, Mykola Znoba and their creative families.

Mykola Znoba continues to live and work in the house, supporting the creative atmosphere of the workshop. There is a garden of sculptures in the courtyard, the main one of which is the figure of the Cossack Mamay in front of the entrance to the house, the original of which was installed on Maydan Nezalezhnosti.

The museum-workshop of the Znoba-Holembiyevsky creative dynasty often serves as an artistic venue for meeting cultural figures, artists of various directions and styles.

The Kyiv Literary and Memorial Museum-Apartment of Mykola Bazhan was opened in 2004 to mark the centenary of the poet's birthday in the house where the Bazhan family lived for about forty years.

The original interiors of the office, living room, art library, the room of the poet's wife and father have been preserved in the apartment. Antique furniture, objects of decorative and applied art, other personal belongings of the poet convey the special atmosphere of intellectual life of the second half of the 20th century.

A collection of works of fine and decorative applied art, collected by the owner himself and his wife, is presented, including paintings by Mykola Pymonenko, Fedir Krychevskyi, Ivan Trush, Kateryna Bilokur, Mykola Hlushchenko and other artists.

The literary part of the exposition illuminates the creative path of Bazhan. Extant editions of the artist's poems, manuscripts, translations, photos from movies shot according to his scripts, etc. are exhibited. Mykola Bazhan's personal library has more than 8,000 books.

The apartment museum of Mykola Bazhan is a branch of the National Museum of Literature of Ukraine.

In the same building is the Literary Memorial Museum-Apartment of Pavlo Tychyna, who was a neighbor of Bazhan.

The Myronivka Historical and Local Lore Museum opened in 2019 in the two-story building of the former cinema in the very center of the Myronivka town in the Kyiv region. The exposition tells about the history of the Myronivka region from ancient times to the present.

The archaeological section presents objects and weapons of the Middle Dnipro, Zrubna, Black Forest, Scythian and Chernyakhiv archaeological cultures. The museum also presents a wonderful collection of various jewelry from the times of Kyivan Rus.

The historical exposition reveals the themes of the Cossacks, Russian rule in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Ukrainian revolution, the Holodomor, the Second World War, the modern Russian-Ukrainian war, etc. Here you can learn about the history of the founding of the city of Myronivka.

In the exposition "Ukrainian life of the 19th - the first half of the 20th centuries" the interior of the then dwelling is reproduced, agricultural tools are exhibited. Unique exhibits include a grist mill, a fan and a loom.

You can also see a large model of the Myronivka sugar factory.

Since 1998, the Kyiv Circus has had the status of the National Circus of Ukraine, which gives it the right to be called the main circus arena of the country.

The first stationary Kyiv circus Hippo-Palace of the rich horse breeder and trainer Petro Krutikov was built in Pechersk in 1903 according to the project of the architect Vladyslav Horodetskyi. At that time it was the largest in Europe.

The current fundamental building of the National Circus of Ukraine was built according to the project of the architect Valentin Zhukov in 1960, becoming one of the three main arenas of the USSR.

Today, the National Circus of Ukraine has its own artists of various circus genres, a ballet troupe, and one of the best musical groups.

Excursions "Traveling through the circus building" are held, during which visitors have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the real circus atmosphere, learn interesting historical facts, architectural features of the building, details of the creation of performances.

National historical and ethnographic reserve "Pereyaslav" is one of the largest historical and cultural reserves of Ukraine. It unites 24 museums, more than 370 monuments of history and architecture, about 3,000 hectares of the territory of the Pereyaslav city and its surroundings.

The reserve was founded in 1979 by the outstanding Ukrainian historian, ethnographer, museologist, archaeologist, Hero of Ukraine Mykhaylo Sikorsky on the basis of the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Historical Museum - now it is the Taras Shevchenko "Testament" Museum, and part of the reserve's administration is also located here.

Today, the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav" covers a whole complex of monuments of the cultural heritage of the historical city of Pereyaslav of different eras, starting from the Pereyaslav Child with the remains of the Prince Michael's Cathedral, including the architectural monuments of the Cossack era in the city center and ending with the administrative and residential buildings of the end 19th - early 20th centuries.

The most popular object of the reserve is the Folk Architecture Museum of the Middle Dnipro Region (Open-Air Museum, skansen), where authentic examples of ancient Ukrainian housing, as well as defensive, economic, administrative and religious buildings of the past are presented. There are 13 separate museums on the territory of the skansen, including the Museum of the Ukrainian Towel, the Museum of Ukrainian Rites, the Museum "Postal Station" and others.

The administration of the reserve, the scientific part and the excursion bureau are located in one of the former premises of the Ascension Monastery, next to the Hryhoriy Skovoroda Memorial Museum. Here you can order a sightseeing tour of the city of Pereyaslav.

The National Military History Museum of Ukraine is located in the Officers' House on Pechersk in Kyiv.

The museum tells about the development of military affairs over many centuries: the Cimmerian-Scythian period, Kyivan Rus, the Cossack era, the First World War, the National Liberation Struggle, the Second World War, the Cold War, the formation of the armed forces of independent Ukraine.

The exposition is based on authentic weapons that were used in different historical eras on the territory of modern Ukraine. In the halls of the museum, you can view military chronicles, documentary and artistic military-historical films.

The museum also conducts patriotic education classes, where you can independently disassemble and assemble automatic firearms.

The National Museum "Chornobyl" in Kyiv is a multifunctional historical and cultural institution that preserves and tells the story of the nuclear accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 as the most severe radioecological catastrophe of the twentieth century.

The museum was opened in 1992 at the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the historic building of the Fire Tower of the early XX century, which originally housed the Podolsk Fire Department, and later the Kyiv Regional Fire Department, which coordinated the liquidation of the Chornobyl accident.

The exposition covers an area of 1100 square meters has more than 7 thousand exhibits: declassified documents, secret cards, photographs, special devices, personal belongings of the liquidators, items from the exclusion zone.

Perceptions are expanded by modern audiovisual and information media, art installations. The current three-phase diorama "Chornobyl NPP before, during and after the accident" is presented, as well as the current model of the 4th power unit of the Chornobyl NPP. The electronic "Book of Memory of the participants of the liquidation of the Chornobyl accident" is supported.

The museum offers excursions in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German, audio guides, tours to the Chornobyl zone from the museum's partners.

The exhibition halls of the museum are located on the second floor of the building. In order to ensure comfortable movement through the territory of the "Chornobyl" museum for visitors in wheelchairs, the possibility of using an electric lift from the first floor is provided. The main video locations of the museum exposition are adapted to the needs of visitors with hearing impairments.

The National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide in Kyiv preserves the memory of the victims of a terrible crime against the Ukrainian people, organized by the Bolshevik government in 1932-1933 by creating an artificial mass famine in Ukraine.

Founded in 2008 as the National Museum "Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine", it was also called the National Museum "Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor".

The memorial complex authored by the People's Artist of Ukraine Anatoliy Haydamakais located on the Dnipro cliffs in the Par k of Eternal Glory in Pechersk in Kyiv. Through a symbolic entrance past two sculptures of angels, visitors enter the "Mill of Fate" square with a touching sculpture of a girl with spikelets in her hands "Bitter memory of childhood."

The center of the memorial is the "Memory Candle", surrounded by crosses resembling the wings of a windmill, with sculptures of storks on top. The sides of the candle are decorated with ornaments of crosses resembling Ukrainian embroidery.

The Museum Hall performs the functions of a museum. Here are 19 volumes of the "National Book of Memory of the Holodomor Victims", memorials to the victims of the tragedy, archival documents, photographs, eyewitness accounts and maps of the project "Digital Atlas of the Holodomor". On the interactive touch screens you can see the results of decades of research by historians about the places of mass burial of Holodomor victims.

Visitors are invited to watch a modern video in the technique of 3D mapping, use an audio guide in 34 languages, tactile layouts.

The construction of the second stage of the memorial is underway, which will house the main museum part of the complex.

According to the project "Inclusive Travels in Ukraine: accessibility of museums of Ukraine", this impressive memorial to the victims of the artificial famine of 1932-1933 is one of the most inclusive museums in Ukraine.

National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Military Achievements (former State Museum-Reserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943") in Novi Petrivtsi recreates the situation of the famous Liutizh military operation to liberate the capital of Ukraine from Nazi invaders in 1943-1944.

Defensive structures, dugouts, military equipment, and an exhibition of uniforms and weapons have been preserved on an area of 9 hectares.

Impressive diorama "Battle for Kyiv. Lyutizh bridgehead. 1943." opened in 1980.

Every year before the Day of Remembrance and the Day of Liberation of Kyiv, theatrical performances take place on the territory of the museum, which recreate the battles for Kyiv.

In 2022, a new exhibit - the Russian Mi-35N helicopter - appeared in the exposition of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Military Achievements. It was on February 24, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that a Russian Mi-35N helicopter (RF-13024) was shot down by a soldier of the National Guard of Ukraine over the Kyiv Reservoir. The helicopter was part of an air attack on the military airfield in Hostomel, Kyiv region. In May 2022, the downed helicopter was raised from the bottom of the Kyiv Sea.

The territory of the National Nature Park "Dniprovsko-Teterivskyi" designed on the basis of the Dniprovsko-Teterivske State Forestry Farm is located in the Vyshhorod district, in the north of the Kyiv region, near the village of Sukholuchchia.

Today, the Dniprovsko-Teterivske State Forestry Farm management protects the typical landscapes of Polissya within the flooded floodplain of the Teteriv River and the coast of the Kyiv Reservoir. The area of the farm is almost 37.9 thousand hectares, their water bodies - 9.3 thousand hectares. About half of the area consists of forests, widespread meadows, many marshes and lakes. Pine and oak-pine forests predominate, aspen and birch forests in some areas.

The hunting fauna characteristic of Polissya is moose, red deer, roe deer, wild boar, fox, hare, raccoon dog, beaver, otter. Birds include grouse, gray partridge, teals, ducks, woodcocks, snipe, etc. The muskrat has been acclimatized, and work is underway to introduce the pheasant. Birds that were not here before began to nest: gray goose, gray crane. There are also black storks, peregrine falcons, white-tailed eagles, and snake-eaters, which are listed in the Red Book.

Until 2014, two hunting residences of the ex-president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, were located on the territory of the Dnipro-Teteriv reserve in the tracts "Ostriv" and "Akatia": hunting palaces, aviaries with wild animals, a helipad, piers with hangars, boats and yachts.

Currently, the development of the "Project for the creation of the Dniprovsko-Teterivskyi National Nature Park" is underway.

National Nature Park "Zalissya" offers visitors outdoor recreation, wildlife observation, cycling routes, horseback riding and other activities in a pine-oak forest near Kyiv, 40 kilometers from the center of the capital along the Chernihiv highway.

This protected area on the left bank of the Desna River covers an area of ​​14,836 hectares. Most of it, fenced off, is one giant enclosure, where about 1,500 deer live in semi-free conditions, as well as hundreds of fallow deer, roe deer, elk, wild boars, hares, etc.

The park was created in 1957 as Zalissya State Forestry and Hunting Farm to organize recreation and hunting entertainment for senior state officials and official delegations of foreign countries. Soviet general secretaries Mykyta Khrushchov and Leonid Brezhnyev, as well as the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, had their country residences here. Their houses are located in the closed part of the national park, which is still one of the presidential residences as part of the State Administration of Affairs.

Since 2014, the main territory of the Zalissya National Park has been open to all visitors. Tourist routes and eco-trails for hiking, cycling and car tourism have been laid across its territory. There is an opportunity to visit the Museum of Nature, see the Big and Small Lakes, visit the stables with thoroughbred horses, etc.

But the main attraction of the park is the opportunity to see large herds of wild animals up close. The best conditions for this are in winter, when the animals approach the feeders located along the roads, and the green mass of the undergrowth does not interfere with observations.

The Zalissya National Park remains a restricted object, so visiting it must be agreed with the administration in advance. You can only move around the territory accompanied by a gamekeeper. Visiting the closed territory of the residence is possible only by organized groups according to previously agreed lists.