Attractions of Kyiv region

The Tetiiv People's History and Lore History Museum was founded in 1967. Since 1989, it has been located in the premises of a former bank from the beginning of the 20th century, opposite the Central City Park of Tetiiv.

Today, the museum's funds include more than 4,000 exhibits, which are exhibited in seven rooms. The exposition tells about the distant past of Tetiiv region, the events of the Ukrainian Revolution, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the Second World War and post-war reconstruction.

The stand "Tetiiv at the Crossroads of the Ages" full of materials about the history of the city's development attracts attention. The "Euromaidan" and "Undeclared War" exhibitions are constantly replenished with exhibits.

Museum in the Dark "Third after midnight" in Kyiv - the first museum in Ukraine, where all tours are held in complete darkness and accompanied by blind guides.

The museum space with an area of 150 square meters recreates in 5 locations typical real-life places - a street, an apartment, a park, an art gallery. But everything that surrounds visitors, they can perceive only by touch, as well as hear sounds and smells.

During the 90-minute tour, visitors are invited to go through all 5 rooms, experiencing ordinary everyday situations, but without using eyesight, which gives the opportunity to learn more about the capabilities of the human body and how blind people live.

The museum also offers tours of the city "Feel Kyiv" with a blind guide and an online quest for children "5 senses", which in the format of the game helps children develop senses and empathy.

In 2023, the museum "Third After Midnight" opened in Lviv.

The Kyiv Museum of Toilet History is a unique exposition that tells about the sanitary history of mankind and the development of toilet culture.

It is located in Pechersk, in Tower G5 of the Kyiv Fortress. The collection was collected by businessman Mykola Bohdanenko.

The museum presents various modifications of the water closet of different eras: from night pots to a toilet with touch control. All exhibits of the museum are divided into several sectors in chronological order.

The exposition covers almost all periods of civilization. There is a collection of souvenir toilets, which has more than 550 copies and is certified by the Guinness Book of Records.

The burial church of the Pidhorsky family in Antoniv was built in 1810.

The stone temple has an unusual pyramidal shape of a ziggurat - a stepped vault is erected above the square building, which ends with an obelisk in the form of a truncated pyramid.

The temple-tomb also served as the parish church of the Catholic community of Antoniv and the surrounding villages.

Now the church is half-ruined.

The Transfiguration Cathedral is the main Orthodox church of the Bila Tserkva, a vivid example of the transition in church architecture from baroque forms to classicism.

The Orthodox Cathedral was built in 1833-39 at the expense of Countess Oleksandra Branytska on the site of the dilapidated Mykilska Church, founded in 1706 by Hetman Ivan Mazepa. There was a belief in the city that the one who builds a new church on the site of Mykilska's Church will face inevitable death. The countess died in the year of completion of construction and was buried in the cathedral, built on her order.

The stone building has a height of 40 meters, but it looks rather squat. The dome, located above the central part, crowns a massive vault, which has a hemispherical shape. The walls are decorated with pilasters.

In 1930, the Transfiguration Cathedral was closed, in 1956 it was restored. Now the temple is active. There is a chapel nearby, which is a preserved fragment of Mykilska's Church.

In 2023, by decision of the city council of Bila Tserkva, the buildings of the Transfiguration Cathedral and the Mykilska Church were handed over to the Bila Tserkva Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Transfiguration Monastery in Rzhyshchiv is one of the oldest in Ukraine. According to legend, it was founded by Saints Anthony and Theodosius, who from time to time traveled here from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

The year 1626 is considered the official foundation date of the Rzhyshchiv Transfiguration Monastery. The Polish landowners of Voronichi, giving their lands to the monastery in 1649, claimed that the monastery was founded by their ancestors. It was one of three monasteries in the Kyiv region, where old and sick Cossacks lived to the end.

In 1653, the ambassador of the Moscow tsar, the boyar Vasyl Buturlin, met here with the hetman of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnitsky, where the terms of the alliance treaty were discussed.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 3 churches in the monastery: Saint Barbara, Transfiguration of the Lord and Life-giving Source. In 1927, the monastery was dissolved, a zootechnical school was placed on the territory, then a construction technical school.

In 1995, the Transfiguration Monastery was revived. Cells from the end of the 19th century have been preserved. Located on a hill above the Dnipro.

The precious chronicle of Ukraine in jewelry made of precious metals and precious stones from the Bronze Age and Antiquity to modern times is offered for viewing by the Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in Kyiv.

This is a museum of Ukrainian historical jewels, which is a branch of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine. It is located in the Kovnir building of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra - an architectural monument of the Ukrainian Baroque era, built in the middle of the 17th century according to the project of the Kyiv architect Stepan Kovnir.

The treasury was founded in 1963 as the Golden Chamber of the State Historical Museum. The basis of the exhibition was a collection of gold jewelry found by archaeologist Oleksiy Terenozhkin in 1954 during the excavation of a Scythian mound of the IV century BC in Melitopol. About 1,500 exhibits from different eras came from the collection of Kyiv patron Bohdan Khanenko.

The work of Ukrainian, Russian, and Western European goldsmiths is introduced through jewelry, tableware, and church items made by talented craftsmen in the styles of Baroque, Rococo, and Classicism. A unique collection of Jewish ceremonial silver is also presented.

Now the museum's funds include more than 56,000 objects of archeology and applied art made of gold, silver and precious stones. The exposition in nine halls is built according to the historical-chronological principle.

The pride of the museum is the largest collection of Scythian gold, in particular the famous gold pectoral of the 4th century BC from the excavations of the mound of Tovsta Mohyla. sights of jewelry art of the early Middle Ages, Ancient Rus, Ukrainian jewelry art of the 16th - the first quarter of the 20th century are also presented.

In addition to a sightseeing tour of the exposition, visitors to the Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine are also offered a theatrical tour of the "Secrets of the Steppe Mounds."

Park in Kaharlyk was founded at the end of the 18th century by the Ukrainian nobleman Dmytro Troshchynskyi, a statesman and patron of Ukrainian culture, a descendant of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

He received the estate in Kaharlyk after 1796 as a gift from Emperor Paul I. The park had a palace, outbuildings, and farm buildings. Copies of Greek and Roman statues were placed in the alleys and lawns.

The gazebo-rotunda on the "Mashuk" hill and the "Sazhalka" pond, which is fed by underground springs, have been preserved.

On an area of 35.5 hectares, there are 113 types of trees imported from the Crimea, the Caucasus and European countries.

Trukhaniv Island is one of the most favorite vacation spots of Kyiv residents.

According to legend, the island was named after the Polovtsian khan Tuhorkhan, because at the end of the 11th century it was the residence of his daughter - the wife of the Kyiv prince Svyatopolk.

For a long time this land was uninhabited, from the 19th century it began to gain popularity as a recreation area with the Central Beach. In the 1950s, it was connected to the Right Bank of the Dnipro by a suspended pedestrian bridge, which vibrates noticeably underfoot when there is a large crowd of people.

The Trypillia Ethno-Historical Complex is located in a picturesque place above the Dnieper Bay in the village of Trypillia in the Kyiv region, opposite Divych Hill. This is a private museum and entertainment institution of a modern format, which in an interactive form introduces the history and culture of Ukraine from the earliest times.

Back in 2006, the famous collector Oleksandr Polishchuk together with the architect Volodymyr Lazorenko, the artist Anatoliy Haydamaka and the historian-fiction writer Yuriy Shylov opened the private historical and archaeological museum "Ancient Aratta-Ukraine" at this place. The basis of his exposition was Polishchuk's personal collection of household items of Trypillya culture.

After a long break, the museum reopened in 2023 in a new format. The exposition on three floors introduces the archaeological findings on the territory of Kyiv region and the intangible cultural heritage of the region.

On the first floor of the museum, you can visit the Ukrainian room and the handmade hall, where ancient looms, spindles, as well as a large collection of ancient embroidered shirts, towels, and carpets are presented. Fossils of the first living organisms and animals that were found on the territory of Ukraine are exhibited in the hall of the Ediacaran period. The exhibition of Cucuteni-Trypillya culture presents ceramics of the Trypillya type (mostly passportless and unattributed). The exhibition hall is currently exhibiting the Motanka dolls of the craftswoman Yuliya Petrenko.

The Residence-Museum of Saint Nicholas opens in a separate building in winter. There is a cafe with a fireplace in the Ukrainian style, where children's master classes, tea ceremonies, themed events are held, lunches are offered to the order of tourist groups. In addition to regular excursions, the museum conducts quests. The souvenir shop sells handmade products.

The Park of Trypillya sculpture is considered a business card of the city of Rzhyshchiv, which disputes with the village of Trypillia for the informal title of the capital of Trypillya culture.

Trypillya Park was created in the square in front of the building of the Rzhyshchiv City Council and the new cultural center in 2003-2004 at the initiative of the local authorities. The central element of the park is a large sculpture in the form of a Trypillya binocular vessel by the sculptor Anatoliy Haydamaka. This ritual vessel also became the central element of the new coat of arms and the main symbol of Rzhyshchiv.

The park also features female statuettes and other enlarged Trypil figures by sculptors Mykola Bilyk, Mykola Sivak, Volodymyr Sholudko and others.

The tulip tree or tulip liriodendron is not directly related to tulips - it is a relative of the magnolia.

It comes from the north-east of America, where it reaches a height of 50-60 meters. It has a leaf of an unusual shape - without a tip. The tree got its name thanks to the delicate yellow-green flowers, similar to tulips.

In Vorzel, a tulip tree was planted in 1914 at the manor of Zherebtsov, secretary of the Kyiv Zemstvo Administration. This tulip tree is one of the largest in Ukraine (they say that there are only two of them in the country, but in fact there are about 30). Its height is about 30 meters, and the diameter of the trunk is more than one meter. Blooms in late May - early June.

The building of the two-class school in Hermanivka was built in 1883 according to the project of the prominent Kyiv architect Volodymyr Nikolayev, the author of the building of the National Philharmonic.

Now it is Hermanivka gymnasium.

The first monument in Ukraine to hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi, who was deposed from the hetmanship during the Black Council (Chorna Rada) held in Hermanivka in 1659, was installed on the territory.

One of the largest art museums of Ukraine and a treasury of Ukrainian cultural heritage is the Ukraine National Decorative Art Museum  in Kyiv (used to be called the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art).

It is located on the territory of the National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra" in the premises of the former metropolitan chambers and the Annunciation Church adjacent to them, which are architectural monuments of the 18th - early 20th centuries.

The museum collection was founded in 1899 as one of the components of the collection of the newly created City Museum of Antiquities and Arts, renamed in 1904 to the Kyiv Art, Industrial and Scientific Museum.

Now the museum collection consists of more than 78,000 works of traditional folk and professional decorative art of Ukraine from the 15th century to the present day. The main rarities of the museum: a wooden carved cross in a silver frame of 1576, clay tiles of the XV-XVII centuries, items of church sewing of the XVIII century, products of the leading porcelain and earthenware enterprises of Ukraine of the XVII-XIX centuries.

The pride and decoration of the collection are complexes of Ukrainian folk costumes of the 19th and early 20th centuries from all regions of Ukraine, where the art of cutting, weaving, embroidery, appliqué, punching, weaving, leather and metal processing are combined in a single artistic ensemble. Traditional women's jewelry attracts attention: dukachi, coral, Venetian necklace, beadwork.

Also, the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art has the largest collection of paintings by prominent Ukrainian folk artists Kateryna Bilokur and Mariya Prymachenko.

The Ukrainian Costume and Easter Egg Museum was opened in 2007 in one of the buildings of the Nemishaieve Agricultural Technical College on the initiative of teacher Tamara Uhnivenko. The institution operates on the basis of the Scientific and Methodological Center of Higher and Vocational Pre-Higher Education.

The exposition presents 50 men's and women's national costumes of the mid-19th - early 20th centuries from all regions of Ukraine, as well as household and wedding towels with traditional ornaments.

A significant place in the exposition is occupied by a collection of 3,000 Easter eggs of 27 types. Pottery and carving, weaving, and embroidery products are also presented. The exhibition of charms is of particular interest.

Thematic excursions and master classes on pysankari are held.